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We approximate the price of the American put for jump diffusions by a sequence of functions, which are computed iteratively. This sequence converges to the price function uniformly and exponentially fast. Each element of the approximating…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-12-03 Erhan Bayraktar , Hao Xing

The paper studies a class of multidimensional optimal stopping problems with infinite horizon for linear switching diffusions. There are two main novelties in the optimal problems considered: the underlying stochastic process has…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Philip Ernst , Hongwei Mei

We describe a variational approach to solving optimal stopping problems for diffusion processes, as an alternative to the traditional approach based on the solution of the free-boundary problem. We study smooth pasting conditions from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-06 V. I. Arkin , A. D. Slastnikov

We study the problem of optimal stopping of conditional McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) stochastic differential equations with jumps (conditional McKean-Vlasov jump diffusions, for short). We obtain sufficient variational inequalities for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

We study a stochastic optimal control problem for jump-diffusion systems whose drift coefficient is piecewise Lipschitz continuous and exhibits threshold-induced discontinuities. Such dynamics naturally arise in applications with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Antoine-Marie Bogso , Edward Fuituh Kameh , Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen , Felix Shu

We consider stochastic control with discretionary stopping for the drift of a diffusion process over an infinite time horizon. The objective is to choose a control process and a stopping time to minimize the expectation of a convex terminal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Václav E. Beneš , Georgy Gaitsgori , Ioannis Karatzas

We consider a jump-diffusion mean field control problem with regime switching in the state dynamics. The corresponding value function is characterized as the unique viscosity solution of a HJB master equation on the space of probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Erhan Bayraktar , Alekos Cecchin , Prakash Chakraborty

We study the existence theory for parabolic variational inequalities in weighted $L^2$ spaces with respect to excessive measures associated with a transition semigroup. We characterize the value function of optimal stopping problems for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-09 Viorel Barbu , Carlo Marinelli

We consider the representation of the value of an optimal stopping problem of a linear diffusion as an expected supremum of a known function. We establish an explicit integral representation of this function by utilizing the explicitly…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Pekka Matomäki

Let $X$ be a one-dimensional diffusion and let $g\colon[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a payoff function depending on time and the value of $X$. The paper analyzes the inverse optimal stopping problem of finding a time-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Thomas Kruse , Philipp Strack

We study the ergodic control problem for a class of jump diffusions in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which are controlled through the drift with bounded controls. The Levy measure is finite, but has no particular structure; it can be anisotropic and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Ari Arapostathis , Luis Caffarelli , Guodong Pang , Yi Zheng

In this paper we consider one-dimensional diffusions with constant coefficients in a finite interval with jump boundary and a certain deterministic jump distribution. We use coupling methods in order to identify the spectral gap in the case…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-17 Martin Kolb , Achim Wübker

We obtain the first probabilistic proof of continuous differentiability of time-dependent optimal boundaries in optimal stopping problems. The underlying stochastic dynamics is a one-dimensional, time-inhomogeneous diffusion. The gain…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Tiziano De Angelis , Damien Lamberton

We present an analytic solution of a differential-difference equation that appears when one solves an optimal stopping time problem with state process following a jump-diffusion process. This equation occurs in the context of real options…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Cláudia Nunes , Rita Pimentel , Ana Prior

We study the optimal stopping problem for a monotonous dynamic risk measure induced by a BSDE with jumps in the Markovian case. We show that the value function is a viscosity solution of an obstacle problem for a partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Roxana Dumitrescu , Marie-Claire Quenez , Agnès Sulem

In a classical optimal stopping problem the aim is to maximize the expected value of a functional of a diffusion evaluated at a stopping time. This note considers optimal stopping problems beyond this paradigm. We study problems in which…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Vicky Henderson , David Hobson , Matthew Zeng

The principle of smooth fit is probably the most used tool to find solutions to optimal stopping problems of one-dimensional diffusions. It is important, e.g., in financial mathematical applications to understand in which kind of models and…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-24 Paavo Salminen , Bao Quoc Ta

We consider the problem of optimal stopping for a one-dimensional diffusion process. Two classes of admissible stopping times are considered. The first class consists of all nonanticipating stopping times that take values in [0,\infty],…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul Dupuis , Hui Wang

We consider the representation of the value of a class of optimal stopping problems of linear diffusions in a linearized form as an expected supremum of a known function. We establish an explicit integral representation of this representing…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Pekka Matomäki

Asymptotic theory for approximate martingale estimating functions is generalised to diffusions with finite-activity jumps, when the sampling frequency and terminal sampling time go to infinity. Rate optimality and efficiency are of…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-05 Nina Munkholt Jakobsen , Michael Sørensen