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Three Behavioural Scenarios for Contingent Claims Valuation in Incomplete Markets

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We describe three different but related scenarios for determination of asset prices in an incomplete market: one scenario uses a market game approach whereas the other two are based on risk sharing or regret minimizing considerations.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, PRODYN-ESF, POCTI, and POSI by FCT and Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Minho, CEMAPRE, and Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto for their financial support.

S. Xanthopoulos would like to acknowledge that this project is co-funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources—(EPEAEK-II) PYTHAGORAS.

D. Pinheiro would also like to acknowledge the financial support from “Programa Gulbenkian de Estímulo à Investigação 2006” and FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia grant with reference SFRH / BPD / 27151 / 2006.

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Boukas, L., Pinheiro, D., Pinto, A.A., Xanthopoulos, S.Z., Yannacopoulos, A.N. (2011). Three Behavioural Scenarios for Contingent Claims Valuation in Incomplete Markets. In: Machado, J., Luo, A., Barbosa, R., Silva, M., Figueiredo, L. (eds) Nonlinear Science and Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9884-9_27

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