Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61302 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 1998,25
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper, we consider a security market in which two investors on different information levels maximize their expected logarithmic utility from terminal wealth. While the ordinary investor's portfolio decisions are based on a public information flow, the insider possesses from the beginning extra information about the outcome of some random variable G, e.g., the future price of a stock. We solve the two optimization problems explicitly and rewrite the insider's additional expected logarithmic utility in terms of a relative entropy. This allows us to provide simple conditions on G for the finiteness of this additional utility and to show that it is basically given by the entropy of G.
Subjects: 
insider trading
entropy
utility maximization
initial enlargement of filtrations
relative entropy
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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