Nonconcave Robust Utility Maximization under Projective Determinacy

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Hauptverfasser: Carassus, Laurence, Ferhoune, Massinissa
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author Carassus, Laurence
Ferhoune, Massinissa
author_facet Carassus, Laurence
Ferhoune, Massinissa
contents We study a general robust utility maximization problem in a discrete-time frictionless market. The investor is assumed to have a possibly infinite, random, nonconcave, and nondecreasing utility function defined on the whole real line. She also faces model ambiguity on her beliefs about the market, which is modelled through a set of priors. We assume that the utility and the prices are projective functions of the path, while the graphs of the local priors are projective sets. Our other assumptions are stated on a prior-by-prior basis and correspond to generally accepted assumptions in the literature on markets without ambiguity. Under the set-theoretic axiom of Projective Determinacy (PD), our main result is the existence of an optimal investment strategy when the utility function is also upper-semicontinuous. We further provide several counterexamples justifying our assumptions.
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spellingShingle Nonconcave Robust Utility Maximization under Projective Determinacy
Carassus, Laurence
Ferhoune, Massinissa
Mathematical Finance
Probability
91B16, 91G80, 54H05, 28B20, 60A10, 93E20
We study a general robust utility maximization problem in a discrete-time frictionless market. The investor is assumed to have a possibly infinite, random, nonconcave, and nondecreasing utility function defined on the whole real line. She also faces model ambiguity on her beliefs about the market, which is modelled through a set of priors. We assume that the utility and the prices are projective functions of the path, while the graphs of the local priors are projective sets. Our other assumptions are stated on a prior-by-prior basis and correspond to generally accepted assumptions in the literature on markets without ambiguity. Under the set-theoretic axiom of Projective Determinacy (PD), our main result is the existence of an optimal investment strategy when the utility function is also upper-semicontinuous. We further provide several counterexamples justifying our assumptions.
title Nonconcave Robust Utility Maximization under Projective Determinacy
topic Mathematical Finance
Probability
91B16, 91G80, 54H05, 28B20, 60A10, 93E20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11824