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arxiv: 0705.4487 · v1 · submitted 2007-05-30 · 💱 q-fin.GN · math.OC· math.PR

Utility Maximization with a Stochastic Clock and an Unbounded Random Endowment

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We introduce a linear space of finitely additive measures to treat the problem of optimal expected utility from consumption under a stochastic clock and an unbounded random endowment process. In this way we establish existence and uniqueness for a large class of utility maximization problems including the classical ones of terminal wealth or consumption, as well as the problems depending on a random time-horizon or multiple consumption instances. As an example we treat explicitly the problem of maximizing the logarithmic utility of a consumption stream, where the local time of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process acts as a stochastic clock.

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