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A Dynkin game on assets with incomplete information on the return

Probability 2019-05-20 v4 Optimization and Control Mathematical Finance

Abstract

This paper studies a 2-players zero-sum Dynkin game arising from pricing an option on an asset whose rate of return is unknown to both players. Using filtering techniques we first reduce the problem to a zero-sum Dynkin game on a bi-dimensional diffusion (X,Y)(X,Y). Then we characterize the existence of a Nash equilibrium in pure strategies in which each player stops at the hitting time of (X,Y)(X,Y) to a set with moving boundary. A detailed description of the stopping sets for the two players is provided along with global C1C^1 regularity of the value function.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.07352,
  title  = {A Dynkin game on assets with incomplete information on the return},
  author = {Tiziano De Angelis and Fabien Gensbittel and Stéphane Villeneuve},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07352},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

37 pages, 1 figure, new Section 8 added; keywords: Zero-sum games; Nash equilibrium; incomplete information; free boundaries;

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