Utility-based indifference pricing in regime-switching models

Date
2011
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Publisher
Elsevier
Abstract
In this paper, we study utility-based indifference pricing and hedging of a contingent claim in a continuous-time, Markov, regime-switching model. The market in this model is incomplete, so there is more than one price kernel. We specify the parametric form of price kernels so that both market risk and economic risk are taken into account. The pricing and hedging problem is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem and is discussed using the dynamic programming approach. A verification theorem for the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) solution to the problem is given. An issuer’s price kernel is obtained from a solution of a system of linear programming problems and an optimal hedged portfolio is determined.
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Keywords
Contingent claim valuation, Hedging
Citation
R.J. Elliott and T.K. Siu, „Utility-Based Indifference Pricing in Regime Switching Models‟, Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods & Applications, 74 (2011), 6302-6313