Download This PaperAn Equilibrium Approach to Indifference Pricing
In: M. Kijima, Y. Muromachi and T. Shibata (Eds.), Recent Advances in Financial Engineering, World Scientific, pp.29-56, (2016), with corrections and additional topics, as the title "An equilibrium approach to indifference pricing with model uncertainty".
16 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2010 Last revised: 7 Apr 2016
Date Written: March 30, 2012
Abstract
The utility indifference framework has received a lot of attention, because it is based on a utility maximization principle, which is one of the most fundamental principles of economics, for pricing a contingent claim. The price based on utility indifference framework is the maximum or minimum (in some cases, threshold) price for each investor. Therefore, the price is the indicator for the investor to join the market of the contingent claim. Our purpose is to expand the view of utility indifference framework, that is, to deduce the equilibrium price in the utility indifference framework. We attain the result that, under the setting of exponential utility, the equilibrium price will be uniquely evaluated by minimal entropy martingale measure.
Keywords: Indifference Pricing, Equilibrium
JEL Classification: G12, G13
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