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We study the utility maximization problem, the problem of minimization of the hedging error and the corresponding dual problems using dynamic programming approach. We consider an incomplete financial market model, where the dynamics of asset prices are described by an ℝd-valued continuous semimartingale. Under some regularity assumptions, we derive the backward stochastic PDEs for the value functions related to these problems, and for the primal problem, we show that the strategy is optimal if and only if the corresponding wealth process satisfies a certain forward SDE. As examples we consider the mean-variance hedging problem and the cases of power, exponential, logarithmic utilities, and corresponding dual problems.
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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 45, Martingale Theory and Its Application, 2007.
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Mania, M., Tevzadze, R. Backward stochastic partial differential equations related to utility maximization and hedging. J Math Sci 153, 291–380 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-008-9129-9
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