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ANNALS OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 2140-2194Publisher
INST MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
DOI: 10.1214/105051606000000529
Keywords
utility maximization; incomplete markets; risk-aversion; risk-tolerance; random endowment; contingent claim; hedging; utility-based valuation; stochastic dominance
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In the general framework of a semimartingale financial model and a utility function U defined on the positive real line, we compute the first-order expansion of marginal utility-based prices with respect to a small number of random endowments. We show that this linear approximation has some important qualitative properties if and only if there is a risk-tolerance wealth process. In particular, they hold true in the following polar cases: 1. for any utility function U, if and only if the set of state price densities has a greatest element from the point of view of second-order stochastic dominance; 2. for any financial model, if and only if U is a power utility function (U is an exponential utility function if it is defined on the whole real line).
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