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On contingent claims pricing in incomplete markets: A risk sharing approach

Computational Finance 2012-02-22 v3 Optimization and Control Probability Trading and Market Microstructure

Abstract

In an incomplete market setting, we consider two financial agents, who wish to price and trade a non-replicable contingent claim. Assuming that the agents are utility maximizers, we propose a transaction price which is a result of the minimization of a convex combination of their utility differences. We call this price the risk sharing price, we prove its existence for a large family of utility functions and we state some of its properties. As an example, we analyze extensively the case where both agents report exponential utility.

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@article{arxiv.0809.4781,
  title  = {On contingent claims pricing in incomplete markets: A risk sharing approach},
  author = {Michail Anthropelos and Nikolaos E. Frangos and Stylianos Z. Xanthopoulos and Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4781},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author since its revised version includes several modifications

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