Date: Thursday, September 06, 2012
Location: 1360 East Hall (3:00 PM to 4:00 PM)
Title: Utility Maximization with Addictive Consumption Habit Formation in Incomplete Markets
Abstract: In this talk, we study the problem of continuous time expected utility maximization of consumption together with addictive habit formation in general incomplete semimartingale markets. Introducing the set of auxiliary state processes and the modified dual space, we embed our original problem into an abstract time-separable utility maximization problem with a shadow random endowment on the product space. We establish existence and uniqueness of the optimal solution using convex duality by defining the primal value function as depending on two variables, i.e., the initial wealth and the initial standard of living. We also provide market independent sufficient conditions both on the stochastic discounting processes and on the utility function for the well-posedness of our original optimization problem. Under the same assumptions, we can carefully modify the classical proofs in the approach of convex duality analysis when the auxiliary dual process is not necessarily integrable.<br /><br />
1370_Xiang_Yu.pdf
Speaker: Xiang Yu
Institution: UM
Event Organizer: Erhan Bayraktar
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