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Stability of exponential utility maximization with respect to market perturbations

Portfolio Management 2012-12-13 v8 Probability

Abstract

We investigate the continuity of expected exponential utility maximization with respect to perturbation of the Sharpe ratio of markets. By focusing only on continuity, we impose weaker regularity conditions than those found in the literature. Specifically, we require, in addition to the VV-compactness hypothesis of Larsen and \v{Z}itkovi\'c (2007) (ArXiv: 0706.0474), a local bmobmo hypothesis, a condition which is seen to always be trivially satisfied in the setting of Larsen and \v{Z}itkovi\'c (2007). For markets of the form S=M+λd<M>S = M + \int \lambda d<M>, these conditions are simultaneously implied by the existence of a uniform bound on the norm of λM\lambda \cdot M in a suitable bmobmo space.

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@article{arxiv.1107.2716,
  title  = {Stability of exponential utility maximization with respect to market perturbations},
  author = {Erhan Bayraktar and Ross Kravitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.2716},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Final version. To appear in "Stochastic Processes and Their Applications"