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| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Market Equilibrium | p. 1 |
| Equilibrium under Uncertainty | p. 2 |
| Security-Spot Market Equilibrium | p. 2 |
| State Pricing Model of Securities | p. 5 |
| Binomial Arbitrage Pricing Model of Securities | p. 6 |
| Capital Asset Pricing Model | p. 10 |
| Stochastic Control Pricing Model | p. 12 |
| The Potential-Price Matrix | p. 15 |
| Ito's Lemma--A Simple Case | p. 16 |
| Continuous-Time Portfolio Control | p. 18 |
| Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula | p. 20 |
| Representative Agent Asset Pricing | p. 22 |
| Exercises | p. 24 |
| Notes | p. 25 |
| Static Economies | p. 27 |
| The Geometry of Choices and Prices | p. 28 |
| Vector Spaces | p. 28 |
| Normed Spaces | p. 29 |
| Convexity and Cones | p. 30 |
| Function Spaces | p. 30 |
| Topology | p. 30 |
| Duality | p. 31 |
| Dual Representation | p. 32 |
| Exercises | p. 32 |
| Notes | p. 35 |
| Preferences | p. 35 |
| Preference Relations | p. 35 |
| Preference Continuity and Convexity | p. 35 |
| Utility Functions | p. 35 |
| Utility Representation | p. 36 |
| Quasi-Concave Utility | p. 36 |
| Monotonicity | p. 36 |
| Non-Satiation | p. 37 |
| Exercises | p. 37 |
| Notes | p. 39 |
| Market Equilibrium | p. 39 |
| Primitives of an Economy | p. 39 |
| Equilibria | p. 39 |
| Exchange and Net Trade Economies | p. 40 |
| Production and Exchange Equilibria | p. 41 |
| Equilibrium and Efficiency | p. 42 |
| Efficiency and Equilibrium | p. 42 |
| Existence of Equilibria | p. 44 |
| Exercises | p. 45 |
| Notes | p. 49 |
| First Probability Concepts | p. 50 |
| Probability Spaces | p. 50 |
| Random Variables and Distributions | p. 51 |
| Measurability, Topology, and Partitions | p. 51 |
| Almost Sure Events and Versions | p. 52 |
| Expectation and Integration | p. 53 |
| Distribution and Density Functions | p. 54 |
| Exercises | p. 54 |
| Notes | p. 55 |
| Expected Utility | p. 56 |
| Von-Neumann-Morgenstern and Savage Models of Preferences | p. 56 |
| Expected Utility Representation | p. 56 |
| Preferences over Probability Distributions | p. 57 |
| Mixture Spaces and the Independence Axiom | p. 57 |
| Axioms for Expected Utility | p. 59 |
| Exercises | p. 60 |
| Notes | p. 60 |
| Special Choice Spaces | p. 61 |
| Banach Spaces | p. 61 |
| Measurable Function Spaces | p. 61 |
| L[superscript q] Spaces | p. 61 |
| L[superscript [infinity] Spaces | p. 62 |
| Riesz Representation | p. 62 |
| Continuity of Positive Linear Functionals | p. 63 |
| Hilbert Spaces | p. 63 |
| Exercises | p. 65 |
| Notes | p. 67 |
| Portfolios | p. 67 |
| Span and Vector Subspaces | p. 67 |
| Linearly Independent Bases | p. 68 |
| Equilibrium on a Subspace | p. 68 |
| Security Market Equilibria | p. 69 |
| Constrained Efficiency | p. 70 |
| Exercises | p. 70 |
| Notes | p. 74 |
| Optimization Principles | p. 74 |
| First Order Necessary Conditions | p. 74 |
| Saddle Point Theorem | p. 76 |
| Kuhn-Tucker Theorem | p. 77 |
| Superdifferentials and Maxima | p. 78 |
| Exercises | p. 79 |
| Notes | p. 81 |
| Second Probability Concepts | p. 82 |
| Changing Probabilities | p. 82 |
| Changing Information | p. 83 |
| Conditional Expectation | p. 83 |
| Properties of Conditional Expectation | p. 84 |
| Expectation in General Spaces | p. 85 |
| Jensen's Inequality | p. 85 |
| Independence and The Law of Large Numbers | p. 86 |
| Exercises | p. 87 |
| Notes | p. 89 |
| Risk Aversion | p. 90 |
| Defining Risk Aversion | p. 90 |
| Risk Aversion and Concave Expected Utility | p. 90 |
| Risk Aversion and Second Order Stochastic Dominance | p. 91 |
| Exercises | p. 92 |
| Notes | p. 92 |
| Equilibrium in Static Markets Under Uncertainty | p. 93 |
| Markets for Assets with a Variance | p. 93 |
| Beta Models: Mean-Covariance Pricing | p. 93 |
| The CAPM and APT Pricing Approaches | p. 94 |
| Variance Aversion | p. 95 |
| The Capital Asset Pricing Model | p. 95 |
| Proper Preferences | p. 96 |
| Existence of Equilibria | p. 98 |
| Exercises | p. 99 |
| Notes | p. 101 |
| Stochastic Economies | p. 103 |
| Event Tree Economies | p. 104 |
| Event Trees | p. 104 |
| Security and Spot Markets | p. 105 |
| Trading Strategies | p. 107 |
| Equilibria | p. 107 |
| Marketed Subspaces and Tight Markets | p. 108 |
| Dynamic and Static Equilibria | p. 109 |
| Dynamic Spanning and Complete Markets | p. 109 |
| A Security Valuation Operator | p. 111 |
| Dynamically Complete Markets Equilibria | p. 111 |
| Dynamically Incomplete Markets Equilibria | p. 113 |
| Generic Existence of Equilibria with Real Securities | p. 113 |
| Arbitrage Security Valuation and State Prices | p. 115 |
| Exercises | p. 115 |
| Notes | p. 116 |
| A Dynamic Theory of the Firm | p. 118 |
| Stock Market Equilibria | p. 118 |
| An Example | p. 119 |
| Security Trading by Firms | p. 121 |
| Invariance of Stock Values to Security Trading by Firms | p. 123 |
| Modigliani-Miller Theorem | p. 123 |
| Invariance of Firm's Total Market Value Process | p. 124 |
| Firms Issue and Retire Securities | p. 124 |
| Tautology of Complete Information Models | p. 126 |
| The Goal of the Firm | p. 127 |
| Exercises | p. 128 |
| Notes | p. 129 |
| Stochastic Processes | p. 130 |
| The Information Filtration | p. 130 |
| Informationally Adapted Processes | p. 131 |
| Information Generated by Processes and Event Trees | p. 133 |
| Technical Continuity Conditions | p. 134 |
| Martingales | p. 135 |
| Brownian Motion and Poisson Processes | p. 135 |
| Stopping Times, Local Martingales, and Semimartingales | p. 136 |
| Exercises | p. 137 |
| Notes | p. 138 |
| Stochastic Integrals and Gains From Security Trade | p. 138 |
| Discrete-Time Stochastic Integrals | p. 138 |
| Continuous-Time Primitives | p. 140 |
| Simple Continuous-Time Integration | p. 141 |
| The Stochastic Integral | p. 142 |
| General Stochastic Integrals | p. 144 |
| Martingale Multiplicity | p. 146 |
| Stochastic Integrals and Changes of Probability | p. 146 |
| Exercises | p. 147 |
| Notes | p. 147 |
| Stochastic Equilibria | p. 148 |
| Stochastic Economies | p. 148 |
| Dynamic Spanning | p. 150 |
| Existence of Equilibria | p. 151 |
| Exercises | p. 154 |
| Notes | p. 154 |
| Transformations to Martingale Gains from Trade | p. 155 |
| Introduction: The Finite-Dimensional Case | p. 155 |
| Dividend and Price Processes | p. 156 |
| Self-Financing Trading Strategies | p. 157 |
| Representation of Implicit Market Values | p. 157 |
| Equivalent Martingale Measures | p. 159 |
| Choice of Numeraire | p. 162 |
| A Technicality | p. 163 |
| Generalization to Many Goods | p. 164 |
| Generalization to Consumption Through Time | p. 165 |
| Exercises | p. 166 |
| Notes | p. 168 |
| Discrete-Time Asset Pricing | p. 169 |
| Markov Processes and Markov Asset Valuation | p. 170 |
| Markov Chains | p. 170 |
| Transition Matrices | p. 170 |
| Metric and Borel Spaces | p. 171 |
| Conditional and Marginal Distributions | p. 173 |
| Markov Transition | p. 173 |
| Transition Operators | p. 175 |
| Chapman-Kolmogorov Equation | p. 175 |
| Sub-Markov Transition | p. 176 |
| Markov Arbitrage Valuation | p. 177 |
| Abstract Markov Process | p. 179 |
| Exercises | p. 179 |
| Notes | p. 182 |
| Discrete-Time Markov Control | p. 182 |
| Robinson Crusoe Example | p. 183 |
| Dynamic Programming with a Finite State Space | p. 184 |
| Borel-Markov Control Models | p. 187 |
| Existence of Stationary Markov Optimal Control | p. 189 |
| Measurable Selection of Maxima | p. 190 |
| Bellman Operator | p. 190 |
| Contraction Mapping and Fixed Points | p. 191 |
| Bellman Equation | p. 192 |
| Finite Horizon Markov Control | p. 194 |
| Stochastic Consumption and Investment Control | p. 195 |
| Exercises | p. 199 |
| Notes | p. 201 |
| Discrete-Time Equilibrium Pricing | p. 202 |
| Markov Exchange Economies | p. 202 |
| Optimal Portfolio and Consumption Policies | p. 203 |
| Conversion to a Borel-Markov Control Problem | p. 204 |
| Markov Equilibrium Security Prices | p. 205 |
| Relaxation of Short-Sales Constraints | p. 208 |
| Markov Production Economies | p. 210 |
| A Central Planning Stochastic Production Problem | p. 210 |
| Market Decentralization of a Growth Economy | p. 211 |
| Markov Stock Market Equilibrium | p. 213 |
| Exercises | p. 214 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Continuous-Time Asset Pricing | p. 221 |
| An Overview of the Ito Calculus | p. 222 |
| Ito Processes and Integrals | p. 222 |
| Ito's Lemma | p. 223 |
| Stochastic Differential Equations | p. 224 |
| Feynman-Kac Formula | p. 225 |
| Girsanov's Theorem: Change of Probability and Drift | p. 228 |
| Exercises | p. 230 |
| Notes | p. 231 |
| The Black-Scholes Model of Security Valuation | p. 232 |
| Binomial Pricing Model | p. 233 |
| Black-Scholes Framework | p. 235 |
| Reduction to a Partial Differential Equation | p. 237 |
| The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula | p. 239 |
| An Application of the Feynman-Kac Formula | p. 239 |
| An Extension | p. 240 |
| Central Limit Theorems | p. 243 |
| Limiting Binomial Formula | p. 245 |
| Uniform Integrability | p. 247 |
| An Application of Donsker's Theorem | p. 248 |
| An Application of Girsanov's Theorem | p. 253 |
| Exercises | p. 256 |
| Notes | p. 264 |
| An Introduction to the Control of Ito Processes | p. 266 |
| Sketch of Bellman's Equation | p. 266 |
| Regularity Requirements | p. 269 |
| Formal Statement of Bellman's Equation | p. 269 |
| Exercises | p. 271 |
| Notes | p. 273 |
| Portfolio Choice with I.I.D. Returns | p. 274 |
| The Portfolio Control Problem | p. 274 |
| The Solution | p. 276 |
| Exercises | p. 279 |
| Notes | p. 290 |
| Continuous-Time Equilibrium Asset Pricing | p. 291 |
| The Setting | p. 292 |
| Definition of Equilibrium | p. 293 |
| Regularity Conditions | p. 294 |
| Equilibrium Theorem | p. 295 |
| Conversion to Consumption Numeraire | p. 297 |
| Equilibrium Interest Rates | p. 298 |
| The Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model | p. 299 |
| The Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Term Structure Model | p. 301 |
| Exercises | p. 303 |
| Notes | p. 320 |
| Bibliography | p. 323 |
| Author Index | p. 345 |
| Symbol Glossary | p. 349 |
| Subject Index | p. 351 |
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ISBN: 9780122233456
ISBN-10: 012223345X
Series: ECONOMIC THEORY, ECONOMETRICS, AND MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS
Published: 28th July 1988
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 250
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: EMERALD PUB LTD
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 25.0 x 152.0 x 229.0
Weight (kg): 0.7
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