Marginal utility pricing with proportional transaction costs

ID: marginal-utility-pricing-with-proportional-transaction-costs

At a nonzero optimum, the derivative of expected utility of a proportional transaction cost payoff is zero. Normalized marginal utility therefore prices at for a positive optimum or for a negative optimum. At a zero optimum the one-sided derivative inequalities put inside that interval, so density one works. The competing one-sided-payoff alternative prevents the coercive-maximizer argument from being assumed when a net gain has only one sign.

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