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Optimal investment-consumption and life insurance selection problem under inflation. A BSDE approach

Optimization and Control 2017-11-07 v1 Portfolio Management

Abstract

We discuss an optimal investment, consumption and insurance problem of a wage earner under inflation. Assume a wage earner investing in a real money account and three asset prices, namely: a real zero coupon bond, the inflation-linked real money account and a risky share described by jump-diffusion processes. Using the theory of quadratic-exponential backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with jumps approach, we derive the optimal strategy for the two typical utilities (exponential and power) and the value function is characterized as a solution of BSDE with jumps. Finally, we derive the explicit solutions for the optimal investment in both cases of exponential and power utility functions for a diffusion case.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01760,
  title  = {Optimal investment-consumption and life insurance selection problem under inflation. A BSDE approach},
  author = {Calisto Guambe and Rodwell Kufakunesu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01760},
  year   = {2017}
}

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