A market model with medium/long-term effects due to an insider

Author： Hata Hiroaki Kohatsu-Higa Arturo

ISSN： 1469-7688

Source： Quantitative Finance, Vol.13, Iss.3, 2013-03, pp. : 421-437

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Abstract

In this article, we consider a modification of the Karatzas–Pikovsky model of insider trading. Specifically, we suppose that the insider agent influences the long/medium-term evolution of Black–Scholes type model through the drift of the stochastic differential equation. We say that the insider agent is using a portfolio leading to a partial equilibrium if the following three properties are satisfied: (a) the portfolio used by the insider leads to a stock price which is a semimartingale under his/her own filtration and his/her own filtration enlarged with the final price; (b) the portfolio used by the insider is optimal in the sense that it maximises the logarithmic utility for the insider when his/her filtration is fixed; and (c) the optimal logarithmic utility in (b) is finite. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a partial equilibrium and show in some explicit models how to apply these general results.