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Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-14 Etienne Chevalier , Yadh Hafsi , Vathana Ly Vath , Sergio Pulido

This paper investigates the optimal control problems for the finite-horizon continuous-time Markov decision processes with delay-dependent control policies. We develop compactification methods in decision processes, and show that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Zhong-Wei Liao , Jinghai Shao

This paper deals with numerical solutions 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…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-06 Mohamed Mnif

This paper investigates the optimal harvesting strategy for a single species living in random environments whose growth is given by a regime-switching diffusion. Harvesting acts as a (stochastic) control on the size of the population. The…

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

In this paper, we study optimal liquidation problems in a randomly-terminated horizon. We consider the liquidation of a large single-asset portfolio with the aim of minimizing a combination of volatility risk and transaction costs arising…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-09-19 Qing-Qing Yang , Wai-Ki Ching , Jia-Wen Gu , Tak Kwong Wong

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

A price-maker company extracts an exhaustible commodity from a reservoir, and sells it instantaneously in the spot market. In absence of any actions of the company, the commodity's spot price evolves either as a drifted Brownian motion or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Giorgio Ferrari , Torben Koch

This paper first describes a class of uncertain stochastic control systems with Markovian switching, and derives an It\^o-Liu formula for Markov-modulated processes. And we characterize an optimal control law, which satisfies the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Weiyin Fei

We study a stochastic control problem on a bounded domain, which arises from a continuous-time optimal management model. Via the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation the value function is shown to be jointly continuous and to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Ruoting Gong , Christian Houdré

We consider an optimal control problem for a linear stochastic integro-diffe\-rential equation with conic constraints on the phase variable and the control of singular-regular type. Our setting includes consumption-investment problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Dimitri De Vallière , Yuri Kabanov , Emmanuel Lépinette

We consider an optimal control problem arising in the context of economic theory of growth, on the lines of the works by Skiba (1978) and Askenazy - Le Van (1999). The economic framework of the model is intertemporal infinite horizon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-05 Francesco Bartaloni

In this paper we discuss the optimal liquidation over a finite time horizon until the exit time. The drift and diffusion terms of the asset price are general functions depending on all variables including control and market regime. There is…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-10-02 Baojun Bian , Nan Wu , Harry Zheng

We consider an infinite horizon discounted optimal control problem for piecewise deterministic Markov processes, where a piecewise open-loop control acts continuously on the jump dynamics and on the deterministic flow. For this class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-08 Elena Bandini

In this paper we show existence and uniqueness of a solution for a system of m variational partial differential inequalities with inter-connected obstacles. This system is the deterministic version of the Verification Theorem of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-12 Brahim El Asri , Said Hamadene

We employ the viscosity solution technique to analyze optimal stopping problems with regime switching. Specifically, we obtain the viscosity property of value functions, the uniqueness of viscosity solutions, the regularity of value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-25 Yong-Chao Zhang , Na Zhang

This paper studies the infinite-horizon optimal consumption with a path-dependent reference under exponential utility. The performance is measured by the difference between the nonnegative consumption rate and a fraction of the historical…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-03-23 Shuoqing Deng , Xun Li , Huyen Pham , Xiang Yu

We study optimal control problems in infinite horizon when the dynamics belong to a specific class of piecewise deterministic Markov processes constrained to star-shaped networks (inspired by traffic models). We adapt the results in [H. M.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Dan Goreac , Magdalena Kobylanski , Miguel Martinez

This paper considers consumption and portfolio optimization problems with recursive preferences in both infinite and finite time regions. Specially, the financial market consists of a risk-free asset and a risky asset that follows a general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Jian-hao Kang , Zhun Gou , Nan-jing Huang

We consider the problem of optimal multiple switching in finite horizon, when the state of the system, including the switching costs, is a general adapted stochastic process. The problem is formulated as an extended impulse control problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-19 Boualem Djehiche , Said Hamadene , Alexandre Popier

This work focuses on optimal harvesting-renewing for a stochastic population. A mixed regular-singular control formulation with a state constraint and regime-switching is introduced. The decision-makers either harvest or renew with finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-07 K. Q. Tran , L. T. N. Bich , George Yin