Derivative Pricing in Complete and Incomplete Markets

Asset and Derivative Pricing with Incomplete Markets

This paper presents a model where uninsurable income shocks and credit constraints generate a demand for liquidity. Infinitely lived agents purchase a risky asset to self insure themselves against their individual risk. They also trade call options to diversify the aggregate risk they face. In this economy, options are not redundant but complete the market for aggregate risk. We are able to cha...

Utility-Based Derivative Pricing in Incomplete Markets

In recent years various suggestions concerning contingent claim valuation in incomplete markets have been made. We argue that some of them can be naturally interpreted in terms of neutral derivative prices which occur if derivative demand and supply are balanced. Secondly, we introduce the notion of consistent derivative pricing which is a way of constructing market models that are consistent w...

Option Pricing In Incomplete Markets

Option pricing in incomplete markets

Expectedutilitymaximization is a very useful approach for pricing options in an incomplete market. The results from this approach contain many important features observed by practitioners. However, under this approach, the option prices are determined by a set of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations in high dimensions. Thus, it represents numerous significant difficulties in both th...

Pricing and Hedging in Incomplete Markets

We present a new approach for positioning, pricing, and hedging in incomplete markets that bridges standard arbitrage pricing and expected utility maximization. Our approach for determining whether an investor should undertake a particular position involves specifying a set of probability measures and associated °oors which expected payo®s must exceed in order for the investor to consider the h...