Cost-efficiency in Incomplete Markets

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Main Authors: Bernard, Carole, Sturm, Stephan
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Published: 2022
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author Bernard, Carole
Sturm, Stephan
author_facet Bernard, Carole
Sturm, Stephan
contents This paper studies the topic of cost-efficiency in incomplete markets. A payoff is called cost-efficient if it achieves a given probability distribution at some given investment horizon with a minimum initial budget. Extensive literature exists for the case of a complete financial market. We show how the problem can be extended to incomplete markets and how the main results from the theory of complete markets still hold in adapted form. In particular, we find that in incomplete markets, the optimal portfolio choice for non-decreasing preferences that are diversification-loving (a notion introduced in this paper) must be "perfectly" cost-efficient. This notion of perfect cost-efficiency is shown to be equivalent to the fact that the payoff can be rationalized, i.e., it is the solution to an expected utility problem.
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spellingShingle Cost-efficiency in Incomplete Markets
Bernard, Carole
Sturm, Stephan
Portfolio Management
Probability
Mathematical Finance
91G10, 60E15, 90B50
This paper studies the topic of cost-efficiency in incomplete markets. A payoff is called cost-efficient if it achieves a given probability distribution at some given investment horizon with a minimum initial budget. Extensive literature exists for the case of a complete financial market. We show how the problem can be extended to incomplete markets and how the main results from the theory of complete markets still hold in adapted form. In particular, we find that in incomplete markets, the optimal portfolio choice for non-decreasing preferences that are diversification-loving (a notion introduced in this paper) must be "perfectly" cost-efficient. This notion of perfect cost-efficiency is shown to be equivalent to the fact that the payoff can be rationalized, i.e., it is the solution to an expected utility problem.
title Cost-efficiency in Incomplete Markets
topic Portfolio Management
Probability
Mathematical Finance
91G10, 60E15, 90B50
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12511