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We consider a large family of discrete and continuous time controlled Markov processes and study an ergodic risk-sensitive minimization problem. Under a blanket stability assumption, we provide a complete analysis to this problem. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Anup Biswas , Somnath Pradhan

We study the stochastic control problem of maximizing expected utility from terminal wealth under a non-bankruptcy constraint. The wealth process is subject to shocks produced by a general marked point process. The problem of the agent is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Mohamed Mnif

We consider the problem of portfolio optimization in a simple incomplete market and under a general utility function. By working with the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equation (HJB PDE), we obtain a closed-form…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Rohini Kumar , Hussein Nasralah

This paper focuses on stochastic optimal control problems with constraints in law, which are rewritten as optimization (minimization) of probability measures problem on the canonical space. We introduce a penalized version of this type of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

The present paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behavior of the value functions of both finite and infinite horizon stochastic control problems and to the investigation of their relation with suitable stochastic ergodic control…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-06 Andrea Cosso , Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore

In this paper, we propose an original approach to stochastic control problems. We consider a weak formulation that is written as an optimization (minimization) problem on the space of probability measures. We then introduce a penalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Thibaut Bourdais , Nadia Oudjane , Francesco Russo

This article studies a portfolio optimization problem, where the market consisting of several stocks is modeled by a multi-dimensional jump-diffusion process with age-dependent semi-Markov modulated coefficients. We study risk sensitive…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-21 Milan Kumar Das , Anindya Goswami , Nimit Rana

In this note we consider the finite-dimensional parameter estimation problem associated to inverse problems. In such scenarios, one seeks to maximize the marginal likelihood associated to a Bayesian model. This latter model is connected to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Ajay Jasra , Abylay Zhumekenov

We consider a stochastic game-theoretic model of a discrete-time asset market with short-lived assets and endogenous asset prices. We prove that the strategy which invests in the assets proportionally to their expected relative payoffs…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-10 Mikhail Zhitlukhin

We solve an expected utility-maximization problem with a Value-at-risk constraint on the terminal portfolio value in an incomplete financial market due to stochastic volatility. To derive the optimal investment strategy, we use the dynamic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-21 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Yevhen Havrylenko , Rudi Zagst

This paper is mainly a survey of recent research developments regarding methods for risk minimization in financial markets modeled by It\^o-L\'evy processes, but it also contains some new results on the underlying stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

In this paper long-run risk sensitive optimisation problem is studied with dyadic impulse control applied to continuous-time Feller-Markov process. In contrast to the existing literature, focus is put on unbounded and non-uniformly ergodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Marcin Pitera , Łukasz Stettner

We study a an optimal high frequency trading problem within a market microstructure model designed to be a good compromise between accuracy and tractability. The stock price is driven by a Markov Renewal Process (MRP), while market orders…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-01-06 Pietro Fodra , Huyên Pham

In this article we consider the ergodic risk-sensitive control problem for a large class of multidimensional controlled diffusions on the whole space. We study the minimization and maximization problems under either a blanket stability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas , Somnath Pradhan

The challenge of constructing feedback control laws for risk-averse optimal control of partial differential equations (PDEs) with random coefficients is addressed. The control objective composes a tracking-type cost with the nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Philipp A. Guth , Karl Kunisch

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the solution to a linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems. The so-called probability cell problem is introduced the first time. It serves as the probability interpretation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Jiamin Jian , Sixian Jin , Qingshuo Song , Jiongmin Yong

In this work, we show the consistency of an approach for solving robust optimization problems using sequences of sub-problems generated by ergodic measure preserving transformations. The main result of this paper is that the minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Pedro Pérez-Aros

In this paper, we investigate risk minimization problem of derivatives based on non-tradable underlyings by means of dynamic g-expectations which are slight different from conditional g-expectations. In this framework, inspired by [1] and…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-08-13 Tianxiao Wang

We derive the explicit solutions to singular stochastic control problems of the monotone follower type with (a) an expected discounted criterion, (b) an expected ergodic criterion and (c) a pathwise ergodic criterion. These problems have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Gechun Liang , Zhesheng Liu , Mihail Zervos

The double Heston model is one of the most popular option pricing models in financial theory. It is applied to several issues such that risk management and volatility surface calibration. This paper deals with the problem of global…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Mohamed Ben Alaya , Houssem Dahbi , Hamdi Fathallah