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We study the optimal portfolio liquidation problem over a finite horizon in a limit order book with bid-ask spread and temporary market price impact penalizing speedy execution trades. We use a continuous-time modeling framework, but in…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Idris Kharroubi , Huyen Pham

In this article, we study the classical finite-horizon optimal stopping problem for multidimensional diffusions through an approach that differs from what is typically found in the literature. More specifically, we first prove a key…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Andrea Cosso , Laura Perelli

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

We consider the mean-field game where each agent determines the optimal time to exit the game by solving an optimal stopping problem with reward function depending on the density of the state processes of agents still present in the game.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Géraldine Bouveret , Roxana Dumitrescu , Peter Tankov

The Markowitz problem consists of finding in a financial market a self-financing trading strategy whose final wealth has maximal mean and minimal variance. We study this in continuous time in a general semimartingale model and under cone…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-06-04 Christoph Czichowsky , Martin Schweizer

A \emph{new} notion of equilibrium, which we call \emph{strong equilibrium}, is introduced for time-inconsistent stopping problems in continuous time. Compared to the existing notions introduced in ArXiv: 1502.03998 and ArXiv: 1709.05181,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-02 Erhan Bayraktar , Jingjie Zhang , Zhou Zhou

We study an optimal stopping problem under non-exponential discounting, where the state process is a multi-dimensional continuous strong Markov process. The discount function is taken to be log sub-additive, capturing decreasing impatience…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-07-14 Yu-Jui Huang , Zhenhua Wang

We consider sequences-indexed by time (discrete stages)-of families of multistage stochastic optimization problems. At each time, the optimization problems in a family are parameterized by some quantities (initial states, constraint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Pierre Carpentier , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel de Lara

The closed-loop stability and infinite-horizon performance of receding-horizon approximations are studied for non-stationary linear-quadratic regulator (LQR) problems. The approach is based on a lifted reformulation of the optimal control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Jintao Sun , Michael Cantoni

Graph planning gives rise to fundamental algorithmic questions such as shortest path, traveling salesman problem, etc. A classical problem in discrete planning is to consider a weighted graph and construct a path that maximizes the sum of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

This paper characterizes differentiable subgame perfect equilibria in a continuous time intertemporal decision optimization problem with non-constant discounting. The equilibrium equation takes two different forms, one of which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ivar Ekeland , Ali Lazrak

This paper studies robust time-inconsistent (TIC) linear-quadratic stochastic control problems, formulated by stochastic differential games. By a spike variation approach, we derive sufficient conditions for achieving the Nash equilibrium,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Bingyan Han , Chi Seng Pun , Hoi Ying Wong

We solve the non-discounted, finite-horizon optimal stopping problem of a Gauss-Markov bridge by using a time-space transformation approach. The associated optimal stopping boundary is proved to be Lipschitz continuous on any closed…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Abel Azze , Bernardo D'Auria , Eduardo García-Portugués

We study a Stackelberg variant of the classical discrete-time Dynkin game, in which Player 1 (the leader) commits to a stopping strategy first and Player 2 (the follower) responds optimally. This leader-follower structure induces an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Jingjie Zhang , Zhou Zhou

Many discrete-time optimal stopping problems are known to have more tractable limit forms based on a planar Poisson process. Using this tool we find a solution to the optimal stopping problem for i.i.d. sequence of $n$ discrete uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Alexander Gnedin

We study an infinite horizon optimal stopping problem which arises naturally in the optimal timing of a firm/project sale or in the valuation of natural resources: the functional to be maximised is a sum of a discounted running reward and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-08 Jan Palczewski , Lukasz Stettner

This paper is concerned with two-person mean-field linear-quadratic non-zero sum stochastic differential games in an infinite horizon. Both open-loop and closed-loop Nash equilibria are introduced. Existence of an open-loop Nash equilibrium…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Xun Li , Jingtao Shi , Jiongmin Yong

In this paper, we continue our study on a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear--quadratic (LQ) control problem originally formulated in [6]. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-27 Ying Hu , Hanqing Jin , Xun Yu Zhou

In this paper, we study a class of stochastic time-inconsistent linear-quadratic (LQ) control problems with control input constraints. These problems are investigated within the more general framework associated with random coefficients.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Ying Hu , Jianhui Huang , Xun Li

In this paper, we consider the social optimal problem of discrete time finite state space mean field games (referred to as finite mean field games [1]). Unlike the individual optimization of their own cost function in competitive models, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-09 Zijia Niu , Sanjin Huang , Lu Ren , Wang Yao , Xiao Zhang