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We study a stochastic optimal control problem with the state constrained to a smooth, compact domain. The control influences both the drift and a possibly degenerate, control-dependent dispersion matrix, leading to a fully nonlinear,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Anderson O. Calixto , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa , Glauco Valle

We revisit the dividend payment problem in the dual model of Avanzi et al. ([2], [1], and [3]). Using the fluctuation theory of spectrally positive L\'{e}vy processes, we give a short exposition in which we show the optimality of barrier…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Erhan Bayraktar , Andreas Kyprianou , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

A learning technique for finite horizon optimal control problems and its approximation based on polynomials is analyzed. It allows to circumvent, in part, the curse dimensionality which is involved when the feedback law is constructed by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Karl Kunisch , Donato Vásquez-Varas

This paper considers optimal control problem of a large insurance company under a fixed insolvency probability. The company controls proportional reinsurance rate, dividend pay-outs and investing process to maximize the expected present…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-06-01 Zongxia Liang , Jianping Huang

We revisit the optimal dividend problem of de Finetti by adding a variance term to the usual criterion of maximizing the expected discounted dividends paid until ruin, in a singular control framework. Investors do not like variability in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Jingyi Cao , Dongchen Li , Virginia R. Young , Bin Zou

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 study a singular stochastic control problem faced by the owner of an insurance company that dynamically pays dividends and raises capital in the presence of the restriction that the surplus process must be above a given dividend payout…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Kristoffer Lindensjö , Filip Lindskog

This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Runhuan Feng , Hans Volkmer , Shuaiqi Zhang , Chao Zhu

We consider a kind of stochastic exit time optimal control problems, in which the cost function is defined through a nonlinear backward stochastic differential equation. We study the regularity of the value function for such a control…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Rainer Buckdahn , Tianyang Nie

In this work, solution of the finite horizon hybrid optimal control problem as the central element of the receding horizon optimal control (model predictive control) is investigated based on the indirect approach. The response of a hybrid…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Babak Tavassoli

We study the optimal financing and dividend distribution problem with restricted dividend rates in a diffusion type surplus model where the drift and volatility coefficients are general functions of the level of surplus and the external…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Jinxia Zhu , Hailiang Yang

In this paper we study the optimal dividend problem for a company whose surplus process evolves as a spectrally positive Levy process. This model including the dual model of the classical risk model and the dual model with diffusion as…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-11 Chuancun Yin , Yuzhen Wen , Yongxia Zhao

In this paper, we study an optimal dividend and capital-injection problem in a Cram\'er--Lundberg model where claim arrivals follow a Hawkes process, capturing clustering effects often observed in insurance portfolios. We establish key…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Paulin Aubert , Etienne Chevalier , Vathana Ly Vath

This paper studies the optimal dividend for a multi-line insurance group, in which each subsidiary runs a product line and is exposed to some external credit risk. The default contagion is considered such that one default event may increase…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-30 Zhuo Jin , Huafu Liao , Yue Yang , Xiang Yu

This manuscript studies the Minkowski-Bellman equation, which is the Bellman equation arising from finite or infinite horizon optimal control of unconstrained linear discrete time systems with stage and terminal cost functions specified as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Saša V. Raković

This paper considers an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company where the dividends are paid in a foreign currency. In the absence of dividend payments, our risk process follows a spectrally negative L\'evy process.…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-01-14 Julia Eisenberg , Zbigniew Palmowski

The solution to the infinite horizon optimal control problem for linear distributed time-delay systems is presented. The proposal is based on the use of the Cauchy solution for distributed time-delay systems. In contrast with previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Jorge Ortega , Omar Santos , Liliam Rodríguez , Sabine Mondié

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 impulse control problems in finite horizon for diffusions with decision lag and execution delay. The new feature is that our general framework deals with the important case when several consecutive orders may be decided before…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Bruder , Huyen Pham

A finite horizon optimal stopping problem for an infinite dimensional diffusion $X$ is analyzed by means of variational techniques. The diffusion is driven by a SDE on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ with a non-linear diffusion coefficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-03 M. B. Chiarolla , T. De Angelis