Preface
1 A Brownian Model of Financial Markets
1.1 Stocks and a Money Market
1.2 Portfolio and Gains Processes
1.3 Income and Wealth Processes
1.4 Arbitrage and Market Viability
1.5 Standard Financial Markets
1.6 Completeness of Financial Markets
1.7 Financial Markets with an Infinite Planning Horizon
1.8 Notes
2 Contingent Claim Valuation in a Complete Market
2.1 Introduction
2.2 European Contingent Claims
2.3 Forward and Futures Contracts
2.4 European Options in a Constant-Coefficient Market
2.5 American Contingent Claims
2.6 The American Call Option
2.7 The American Put Option
2.8 Notes
3 Single-Agent Consumption and Investment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Financial Market
3.3 Consumption and Portfolio Processes
3.4 Utility Functions
3.5 The Optimization Problems
3.6 Utility from Consumption and Terminal Wealth
3.7 Utility from Consumption or Terminal Wealth
3.8 Deterministic Coefficients
3.9 Consumption and Investment on an Infinite Horizon
3.10 Maximization of the Growth Rate of Wealth
3.11 Notes
4 Equilibrium in a Complete Market
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Agents,Endowments,and Utility Functions
4.3 The Financial Market:Consumption and Portfolio Processes
4.4 The Individual Optimization Problems
4.5 Equilibrium and the Representative Agent
4.6 Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium
4.7 Examples
4.8 Notes
5 Contingent Claims in Incomplete Markets
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Model
5.3 Upper Hedging Price
5.4 Convex Sets and Support Functions
5.5 A Family of Auxiliary Markets
5.6 The Main Hedging Result
5.7 Upper Hedging with Constant Coefficients
5.8 Optimal Dual Processes
5.9 Lower Hedging Price
