• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Additional logarithmic utility of an insider
  • Contributor: Amendinger, Jürgen [Author]; Imkeller, Peter [Author]; Schweizer, Martin [Author]
  • Published: Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, 1998
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: relative entropy ; initial enlargement of filtrations ; insider trading ; utility maximization ; entropy
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  • Description: 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.
  • Access State: Open Access