Existence of shadow prices in finite probability spaces

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Abstract: A shadow price is a process lying within the bid/ask prices of a market with proportional transaction costs, such that maximizing expected utility from consumption in the frictionless market with this price process leads to the same maximal utility as in the original market with transaction costs. For finite probability spaces, this note provides an elementary proof for the existence of such a shadow price.


This article is concerned with maximizing expected utility from consumption in a finite market model with proportional transaction costs. The authors show that in this market model a shadow price process \(\widetilde{S}\) exists provided \( E\left[\sum u_t(c_t)\right]> -\infty\) , where an optimal portfolio/consumption pair \(\biggl(\left(\phi^0,\phi\right),c \biggr)\) exists for the market with bid/ask prices of \(\underline{S}, \overline{S}\). Moreover, the authors give an analogue of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing.




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