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Log-optimal portfolio and num\'eraire portfolio for market models stopped at a random time

Mathematical Finance 2020-08-18 v2

Abstract

This paper focuses on num\'eraire portfolio and log-optimal portfolio (portfolio with finite expected utility that maximizes the expected logarithm utility from terminal wealth), when a market model (S,F)(S,\mathbb F) -specified by its assets' price SS and its flow of information F\mathbb F- is stopped at a random time τ\tau. This setting covers the areas of credit risk and life insurance, where τ\tau represents the default time and the death time respectively. Thus, the progressive enlargement of F\mathbb F with τ\tau, denoted by G\mathbb G, sounds tailor-fit for modelling the new flow of information that incorporates both F\mathbb F and τ\tau. For the resulting stopped model (Sτ,G)(S^{\tau},\mathbb G), we study the two portfolios in different manners, and describe their computations in terms of the F\mathbb F-observable parameters of the pair (S,τ)(S, \tau).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1810.12762,
  title  = {Log-optimal portfolio and num\'eraire portfolio for market models stopped at a random time},
  author = {Tahir Choulli and Sina Yansori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12762},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1803.10128