Stability of Utility Maximization in Nonequivalent Markets

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Date 01.10.2015
Hour 12:0013:00
Speaker Kim WESTON (PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University)
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Consider a contingent claim whose underlying is not replicable yet is highly correlated with a traded asset.  As the correlation between the underlying and traded asset increases to 1, do the claim's indifference prices converge to the arbitrage-free price?  In this talk, I will first present a simple counterexample in a Brownian setting with power utility where the indifference prices do not converge.  The counterexample's degeneracies are alleviated for utility functions on the real line, and a positive convergence result will be presented in this case.