In a financial market with a continuous price process and proportional transaction costs, we investigate the problem of utility maximization of terminal wealth. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a shadow price process, i.e., a least favorable frictionless market leading to the same optimal strategy and utility as in the original market under transaction costs. The crucial ingredients are the continuity of the price process and the hypothesis of "no unbounded profit with bounded risk." A counterexample reveals that these hypotheses cannot be relaxed.
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Univ London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Math, Columbia House,Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, EnglandUniv London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Math, Columbia House,Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, England
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Univ London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Math, Columbia House,Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, EnglandUniv London London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, Dept Math, Columbia House,Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE, England