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We study the stochastic control-stopping problem when the data are of polynomial growth. The approach is based on backward stochastic dierential equations (BSDEs for short). The problem turns into the study of a specic reected BSDE with a…

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The purpose of this note is to propose a new approach for the probabilistic interpretation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated with stochastic recursive optimal control problems, utilizing the representation theorem for…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Lishun Xiao , Shengjun Fan , Dejian Tian

We develop a class of non-life reserving models using a stable-1/2 random bridge to simulate the accumulation of paid claims, allowing for an essentially arbitrary choice of a priori distribution for the ultimate loss. Taking an…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2015-03-17 Edward Hoyle , Lane P. Hughston , Andrea Macrina

We study an optimal dividend problem under a bankruptcy constraint. Firms face a trade-off between potential bankruptcy and extraction of profits. In contrast to previous works, general cash flow drifts, including Ornstein--Uhlenbeck and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-05 Max Reppen , Jean-Charles Rochet , H. Mete Soner

In this paper, we study a stochastic recursive optimal control problem in which the value functional is defined by the solution of a backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) under $\tilde{G}$-expectation. Under standard assumptions,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Mingshang Hu , Shaolin Ji , Xiaojuan Li

This paper addresses a continuous-time continuous-space chance-constrained stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem via a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation (PDE). Through Lagrangian relaxation, we convert the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Apurva Patil , Alfredo Duarte , Aislinn Smith , Takashi Tanaka , Fabrizio Bisetti

We consider an insurance company whose surplus is represented by the classical Cramer-Lundberg process. The company can invest its surplus in a risk free asset and in a risky asset, governed by the Black-Scholes equation. There is a…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-12-20 Tatiana Belkina , Christian Hipp , Shangzhen Luo , Michael Taksar

This paper is mainly a survey of recent research developments regarding methods for risk minimization in financial markets modeled by It\^o-L\'evy processes, but it also contains some new results on the underlying stochastic maximum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Bernt Øksendal , Agnès Sulem

In this paper, we consider the robust optimal reinsurance investment problem of the insurer under the $\alpha$-maxmin mean-variance criterion in the defaultable market. The financial market consists of risk-free bonds, a stock and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Min Zhang , Yong He

This paper is concerned with one kind of partially observed progressive optimal control problems of coupled forward-backward stochastic systems driven by both Brownian motion and Poisson random measure with risk-sensitive criteria. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Jingtao Lin , Jingtao Shi

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

The aim of this paper is to solve an optimal investment, consumption and life insurance problem when the investor is restricted to capital guarantee. We consider an incomplete market described by a jump-diffusion model with stochastic…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-15 Rodwell Kufakunesu , Calisto Guambe

In this paper, we investigate optimal stopping problems in a continuous-time framework where only a discrete set of stopping dates is admissible, corresponding to the Bermudan option, within the so-called exploratory formulation. We…

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We propose a novel computational procedure for quadratic hedging in high-dimensional incomplete markets, covering mean-variance hedging and local risk minimization. Starting from the observation that both quadratic approaches can be treated…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-25 Alessandro Gnoatto , Silvia Lavagnini , Athena Picarelli

We introduce a dynamic optimization framework to analyze optimal portfolio allocations within an information driven contagious distress model. The investor allocates his wealth across several stocks whose growth rates and distress…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-12-20 Lijun Bo , Agostino Capponi

In this article, we study optimal investment and consumption in an incomplete stochastic factor model for a power utility investor on the infinite horizon. When the state space of the stochastic factor is finite, we give a complete…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-12 Florian Gutekunst , Martin Herdegen , David Hobson

We a controlled system driven by a coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE) with a non degenerate diffusion matrix. The cost functional is defined by the solution of the controlled backward stochastic differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Khaled Bahlali , Omar Kebiri , Brahim Mezerdi , Ahmed Mtiraoui

This paper investigates a class of optimal control problems associated with Markov processes with local state information. The decision-maker has only local access to a subset of a state vector information as often encountered in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Guanze Peng , Veeraruna Kavitha , Qunayan Zhu

In this paper we continue investigating the optimal dividend and investment problems under the Sparre Andersen model. More precisely, we assume that the claim frequency is a renewal process instead of a standard compound Poisson process,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Lihua Bai , Jin Ma

In optimization problems, the quality of a candidate solution can be characterized by the optimality gap. For most stochastic optimization problems, this gap must be statistically estimated. We show that for risk-averse problems, standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-05 E. Ruben van Beesten , Nick W. Koning , David P. Morton