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Valuation Of Claims On Nontraded Assets Using Utility Maximization

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A topical problem is how to price and hedge claims on nontraded assets. A natural approach is to use for hedging purposes another similar asset or index which is traded. To model this situation, we introduce a second nontraded log Brownian asset into the well‐known Merton investment model with power law and exponential utilities. The investor has an option on units of the nontraded asset and the question is how to price and hedge this random payoff. The presence of the second Brownian motion means that we are in the situation of incomplete markets. Employing utility maximization and duality methods we obtain a series approximation to the optimal hedge and reservation price using the power utility. The problem is simpler for the exponential utility, and in this case we derive an explicit representation for the price. Price and hedging strategy are computed for some example options and the results for the utilities are compared.

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  • Vicky Henderson, 2002. "Valuation Of Claims On Nontraded Assets Using Utility Maximization," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(4), pages 351-373, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:mathfi:v:12:y:2002:i:4:p:351-373
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9965.2002.tb00129.x
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    1. Vicky Henderson, 2001. "Stock Based Compensation: Firm-specific risk, Efficiency and Incentives," Economics Series Working Papers 2002-FE-01, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    2. Vicky Henderson, 2002. "Stock Based Compensation: Firm-specific risk, Efficiency and Incentives," OFRC Working Papers Series 2002fe01, Oxford Financial Research Centre.
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