Valuation and Martingale Properties of Shadow Prices

Lucien Foldes ()

FMG Discussion Papers from Financial Markets Group

Abstract: Concepts of asset valuation based on the martingale properties of shadow (or marginal utility) prices in continuous-time, infinite-horizon stochastic models of optimal saving and portfolio choice are reviewed and compared with their antecedents in static or deterministic economic theory. Applications of shadow pricing to valuation are described, including a new derivation of the Black-Scholes formula and a generalised net present value formula for valuing an indivisible project yielding a random income. Some new results are presented concerning (I) the characterisation of an optimum in a model of saving with an exogenous random income and (ii) the use of random time transforms to replace local by true martingales in the martingale and transversality conditions for optimal saving and portfolio choice.This paper was also published in the ¶Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control¶ #24 (2000). Pages 1641-1701.

Date: 2000-02
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