Optimal liquidation with high risk aversion and small linear price impact

Leonid Dolinskyi, Yan Dolinsky

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Abstract

We consider the Bachelier model with linear price impact. Exponential utility indifference prices are studied for vanilla European options in the case where the investor is required to liquidate her position. Our main result is establishing a non-trivial scaling limit for a vanishing price impact which is inversely proportional to the risk aversion. We compute the limit of the corresponding utility indifference prices and find explicitly a family of portfolios which are asymptotically optimal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-198
Number of pages16
JournalDecisions in Economics and Finance
Volume47
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2024

Keywords

  • 60H30
  • 91B16
  • 91G10
  • Exponential utility
  • Linear price impact
  • Optimal liquidation

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Economics,Econometrics and Finance
  • Finance

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