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This paper demonstrates a practical method for computing the solution of an expectation-constrained robust maximization problem with immediate applications to model-free no-arbitrage bounds and super-replication values for many financial…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-10-06 Christopher W. Miller

Obtaining utility maximizing optimal portfolios in closed form is a challenging issue when the return vector follows a more general distribution than the normal one. In this note, we give closed form expressions, in markets based on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-10 Miklós Rásonyi , Hasanjan Sayit

This work takes up the challenges of utility maximization problem when the market is indivisible and the transaction costs are included. First there is a so-called solvency region given by the minimum margin requirement in the problem…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-03-16 Qingshuo Song , G. Yin , Chao Zhu

We develop a dual-control method for approximating investment strategies in incomplete environments that emerge from the presence of trading constraints. Convex duality enables the approximate technology to generate lower and upper bounds…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-10-29 Thijs Kamma , Antoon Pelsser

A robust control problem is considered in this paper, where the controlled stochastic differential equations (SDEs) include ambiguity parameters and their coefficients satisfy non-Lipschitz continuous and non-linear growth conditions, the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-08-24 Zhou Yang , Jing Zhang , Chao Zhou

In this paper, we consider a stochastic decision problem for a system governed by a stochastic differential equation, in which an optimal decision is made in such a way to minimize a vector-valued accumulated cost over a finite-time horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Getachew K. Befekadu

In this paper we study a continuous-time stochastic linear quadratic control problem arising from mathematical finance. We model the asset dynamics with random market coefficients and portfolio strategies with convex constraints. Following…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-05-24 Yusong Li , Harry Zheng

We calculate explicitly the optimal strategy for an investor with exponential utility function when the stock price follows an autoregressive Gaussian process. We also calculate its performance and analyse it when the trading horizon tends…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-08 Sándor Deák , Miklós Rásonyi

We investigate a portfolio selection problem involving multi competitive agents, each exhibiting mean-variance preferences. Unlike classical models, each agent's utility is determined by their relative wealth compared to the average wealth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Guojiang Shao , Zuo Quan Xu , Qi Zhang

We study the portfolio problem of maximizing the outperformance probability over a random benchmark through dynamic trading with a fixed initial capital. Under a general incomplete market framework, this stochastic control problem can be…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-19 Tim Leung , Qingshuo Song , Jie Yang

We investigate an optimal prevention and insurance problem in a general risk setting, where a representative agent is exposed to potential losses. The agent adopts a strategy that combines self-protection, aimed at reducing the frequency of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Claudia Ceci , Alessandra Cretarola

In a continuous-time model with multiple assets described by c\`{a}dl\`{a}g processes, this paper characterizes superhedging prices, absence of arbitrage, and utility maximizing strategies, under general frictions that make execution prices…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-22 Paolo Guasoni , Miklós Rásonyi

This paper studies a competitive optimal portfolio selection problem in a model where the interest rate, the appreciation rate and volatility rate of the risky asset are all stochastic processes, thus forming a non-Markovian financial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Guangchen Wang , Zuo Quan Xu , Panpan Zhang

Empirical studies indicate the presence of multi-scales in the volatility of underlying assets: a fast-scale on the order of days and a slow-scale on the order of months. In our previous works, we have studied the portfolio optimization…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-04 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Ruimeng Hu

The sum-utility maximization problem is known to be important in the energy systems literature. The conventional assumption to address this problem is that the utility is concave. But for some key applications, such an assumption is not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Chao Zhang , Samson Lasaulce , Li Wang , Lucas Saludjian , H. Vincent Poor

We study an optimal investment/consumption problem in a model capturing market and credit risk dependencies. Stochastic factors drive both the default intensity and the volatility of the stocks in the portfolio. We use the martingale…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-20 Lijun Bo , Agostino Capponi

In this paper, we investigate an interesting and important stopping problem mixed with stochastic controls and a \textit{nonsmooth} utility over a finite time horizon. The paper aims to develop new methodologies, which are significantly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Chonghu Guan , Xun Li , Zuoquan Xu , Fahuai Yi

In this paper, we consider a multistage expected utility maximization problem where the decision maker's utility function at each stage depends on historical data and the information on the true utility function is incomplete. To mitigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Jia Liu , Zhiping Chen , Huifu Xu

The problem of portfolio optimization when stochastic factors drive returns and volatilities has been studied in previous works by the authors. In particular, they proposed asymptotic approximations for value functions and optimal…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-15 Jean-Pierre Fouque , Ruimeng Hu , Ronnie Sircar

We establish a rigorous duality theory, under No Unbounded Profit with Bounded Risk, for an infinite horizon problem of optimal consumption in the presence of an income stream that can terminate randomly at an exponentially distributed…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-11-30 Ashley Davey , Michael Monoyios , Harry Zheng