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Indifference Pricing For Contingent Claims: Large Deviations Effects

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  • Scott Robertson
  • Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

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We study utility indifference prices and optimal purchasing quantities for a nontraded contingent claim in an incomplete semimartingale market with vanishing hedging errors. We make connections with the theory of large deviations. We concentrate on sequences of semicomplete markets where in the nth market, the claim Bn admits the decomposition Bn=Dn+Yn. Here, Dn is replicable by trading in the underlying assets Sn, but Yn is independent of Sn. Under broad conditions, we may assume that Yn vanishes in accordance with a large deviations principle (LDP) as n grows. In this setting, for an exponential investor, we identify the limit of the average indifference price pn(qn), for qn units of Bn, as n→∞. We show that if |qn|→∞, the limiting price typically differs from the price obtained by assuming bounded positions supn|qn|

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  • Scott Robertson & Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, 2018. "Indifference Pricing For Contingent Claims: Large Deviations Effects," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(1), pages 335-371, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:mathfi:v:28:y:2018:i:1:p:335-371
    DOI: 10.1111/mafi.12137
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