Autoren-Abstract: This paper solves a long-standing open problem in mathematical finance: to find a solution to the problem of maximizing utility from terminal wealth of an agent with a random endowment process, in the general, semimartingale model for incomplete markets, and to characterize it...

Let $X$ be an ${\Bbb R}^d$-valued special semimartingale on a probability space $(\Omega , {\cal F} , ({\cal F} _t)_{0 \leq t \leq T} ,P)$ with canonical decomposition $X=X_0+M+A$. Denote by $G_T(\Theta )$ the space of all random variables $(\theta \cdot X)_T$, where $\theta $ is a predictable...

Let X be an R^d-valued special semimartingale on a probability space with canonical decomposition X=X_0+M+A. Denote by G_T(Theta) the space of all random variables (theta bullet X)_T, where theta is a predictable X- integrable process such that the stochastic integral theta bullet X is in the...