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Dynamic Equilibrium with Insider Information and General Uninformed Agent Utility

Mathematical Finance 2024-03-19 v3

Abstract

We study a continuous time economy where agents have asymmetric information. The informed agent (``II''), at time zero, receives a private signal about the risky assets' terminal payoff Ψ(XT)\Psi(X_T), while the uninformed agent (``UU'') has no private signal. Ψ\Psi is an arbitrary payoff function, and XX follows a time-homogeneous diffusion. Crucially, we allow UU to have von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences with a general utility function on (0,)(0,\infty) satisfying the standard conditions. This extends previous constructions of equilibria with asymmetric information used when all agents have exponential utilities and enables us to study the impact of UU's initial share endowment on equilibrium. To allow for UU to have general preferences, we introduce a new method to prove existence of a partial communication equilibrium (PCE), where at time 00, UU receives a less-informative signal than II. In the single asset case, this signal is recoverable by viewing the equilibrium price process over an arbitrarily short period of time, and hence the PCE is a dynamic noisy rational expectations equilibrium. Lastly, when UU has power (constant relative risk aversion) utility, we identify the equilibrium price in the small and large risk aversion limits.

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@article{arxiv.2211.15573,
  title  = {Dynamic Equilibrium with Insider Information and General Uninformed Agent Utility},
  author = {Jerome Detemple and Scott Robertson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15573},
  year   = {2024}
}

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45 pages, 3 figures

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