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Utility maximization in incomplete markets with default

Computational Finance 2010-07-13 v3 Optimization and Control Probability Portfolio Management

Abstract

We adress the maximization problem of expected utility from terminal wealth. The special feature of this paper is that we consider a financial market where the price process of risky assets can have a default time. Using dynamic programming, we characterize the value function with a backward stochastic differential equation and the optimal portfolio policies. We separately treat the cases of exponential, power and logarithmic utility.

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@article{arxiv.0811.4715,
  title  = {Utility maximization in incomplete markets with default},
  author = {Thomas Lim and Marie-Claire Quenez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4715},
  year   = {2010}
}
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