Additional logarithmic utility of an insider
In this paper, we consider a security market in which two investors on different information levels maximize their expected logarithmic utility from terminal wealth. While the ordinary investor's portfolio decisions are based on a public information flow, the insider possesses from the beginning extra information about the outcome of some random variable G, e.g., the future price of a stock. We solve the two optimization problems explicitly and rewrite the insider's additional expected logarithmic utility in terms of a relative entropy. This allows us to provide simple conditions on G for the finiteness of this additional utility and to show that it is basically given by the entropy of G.
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1998
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Authors: | Amendinger, Jürgen ; Imkeller, Peter ; Schweizer, Martin |
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Stochastic Processes and their Applications. - Elsevier, ISSN 0304-4149. - Vol. 75.1998, 2, p. 263-286
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Utility maximization Insider trading Initial enlargement of filtrations Relative entropy Entropy |
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