Unbounded linear terminal-wealth utility
ID: unbounded-linear-terminal-wealth-utility
If a positive terminal state-price density has essential infimum zero, let and . Whenever , these claims cost and satisfy . In a Brownian complete market with constant nonzero market price of risk, has a lognormal distribution and all these events have positive probability. Thus bounded market coefficients and an increasing concave utility do not alone ensure a finite attained optimum: the linear utility already fails. Usual inverse-marginal-utility formulas require further utility and integrability hypotheses.
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