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In this paper we study a class of optimal dividend and investment problems assuming that the underlying reserve process follows the Sparre Andersen model, that is, the claim frequency is a "renewal" process, rather than a standard compound…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Lihua Bai , Jin Ma , Xiaojing Xing

We study optimal dividend strategies for an insurance company facing natural catastrophe claims, anticipating the arrival of a climate tipping point after which the claim intensity and/or the claim size distribution of the underlying risks…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-29 Hansjoerg Albrecher , Pablo Azcue , Nora Muler

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing the ruin probability of an insurance company in which the surplus process follows the Sparre Andersen model. Similar to Bai et al. \cite{bai2017optimal}, we recast this problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Linlin Tian , Lihua Bai

This is the first in a series of papers in which we study an efficient approximation scheme for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for multi-dimensional problems in stochastic control theory. The method is a combination of a WKB…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-06-26 Sakda Chaiworawitkul , Patrick S. Hagan , Andrew Lesniewski

This paper studies a {\it reversible} investment problem where a social planner aims to control its capacity production in order to fit optimally the random demand of a good. Our model allows for general diffusion dynamics on the demand as…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Salvatore Federico , Huyen Pham

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize

This paper investigates a singular stochastic control problem for a multi-dimensional regime-switching diffusion process confined in an unbounded domain. The objective is to maximize the total expected discounted rewards from exerting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Qingshuo Song , Chao Zhu

We study a constrained stochastic control problem with jumps; the jump times of the controlled process are given by a Poisson process. The cost functional comprises quadratic components for an absolutely continuous control and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Peter Kratz

This work concerns the optimal control problem for McKean-Vlasov SDEs. In order to characterize the value function, we develop the viscosity solution theory for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on the Wasserstein space using…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Jinghai Shao

This paper addresses the problem of utility maximization under uncertain parameters. In contrast with the classical approach, where the parameters of the model evolve freely within a given range, we constrain them via a penalty function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

We investigate the optimal strategy over a finite time horizon for a portfolio of stock and bond and a derivative in an multiplicative Markovian market model with transaction costs (friction). The optimization problem is solved by a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-24 Erik Aurell , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

Stochastic optimal control problems with constraints on the probability distribution of the final output are considered. Necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a coupled system of partial differential equations involving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Samuel Daudin

Using a recently introduced representation of the second order adjoint state as the solution of a function-valued backward stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), we calculate the viscosity super- and subdifferential of the value…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Wilhelm Stannat , Lukas Wessels

We investigate the portfolio execution problem under a framework in which volatility and liquidity are both uncertain. In our model, we assume that a multidimensional Markovian stochastic factor drives both of them. Moreover, we model…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-08-08 Max O. Souza , Yuri Thamsten

We consider a discrete-time version of the popular optimal dividend pay-out problem in risk theory. The novel aspect of our approach is that we allow for a risk averse insurer, i.e., instead of maximising the expected discounted dividends…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Nicole Bäuerle , Anna Jaśkiewicz

In this paper we consider a company whose assets and liabilities evolve according to a correlated bivariate geometric Brownian motion, such as in Gerber and Shiu (2003). We determine what dividend strategy maximises the expected present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Benjamin Avanzi , Ping Chen , Lars Frederik Brandt Henriksen , Bernard Wong

This study investigates an optimal investment problem for an insurance company operating under the Cramer-Lundberg risk model, where investments are made in both a risky asset and a risk-free asset. In contrast to other literature that…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-06-25 J. Cerda-Hernandez , A. Sikov , A. Ramos

In this work we study a finite horizon optimal liquidation problem with multiplicative price impact in algorithmic trading, using market orders. We analyze the case when an agent is trading on a market with two financial assets, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Riccardo Cesari , Harry Zheng

In this paper we propose a new way of proving the value of a firm that is currently producing a certain product and faces the option to exit the market. The problem of optimal exiting is an optimal stopping problem, that can be solved using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Manuel Guerra , Cláudia Nunes , Carlos Oliveira

In this paper, we study the optimal dividend problem under the continuous time diffusion model with the bounded dividend rate from the Reinforcement Learning (RL) perspective. Unlike the standard literature, our main focus will be on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Lihua Bai , Thejani Gamage , Jin Ma , Gaozhan Wang