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In this paper we study a robust expected utility maximization problem with random endowment in discrete time. We give conditions under which an optimal strategy exists and derive a dual representation for the optimal utility. Our approach…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-02-12 Daniel Bartl , Patrick Cheridito , Michael Kupper

We consider robust utility maximisation in continuous-time financial markets with proportional transaction costs under model uncertainty. For this purpose, we work in the framework of Chau and R\'asonyi (2019), where robustness is achieved…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-04 Christoph Czichowsky , Raphael Huwyler

In this work, optimality conditions and classical results from duality theory are derived for continuous-time linear optimization problems with inequality constraints. The optimality conditions are given in the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker form. Weak…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Valeriano Antunes de Oliveira

This paper studies a robust utility maximization problem for intractable claims under distributional ambiguity, where the distribution of the claim cannot be inferred from market information and its dependence with tradable assets is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Guohui Guan , Zongxia Liang , Xingjian Ma

This paper discusses the num\'eraire-based utility maximization problem in markets with proportional transaction costs. In particular, the investor is required to liquidate all her position in stock at the terminal time. We first observe…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-10-13 Lingqi Gu , Yiqing Lin , Junjian Yang

This paper studies the utility maximization problem of an agent with non-trivial endowment, and whose preferences are modeled by the maximal subsolution of a BSDE. We prove existence of an optimal trading strategy and relate our existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-16 Gregor Heyne , Michael Kupper , Ludovic Tangpi

We consider a discrete time financial market with proportional transaction costs under model uncertainty, and study a num\'eraire-based semi-static utility maximization problem with an exponential utility preference. The randomization…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-08-02 Shuoqing Deng , Xiaolu Tan , Xiang Yu

We study a continuous-time expected utility maximization problem in which the investor at maturity receives the value of a contingent claim in addition to the investment payoff from the financial market. The investor knows nothing about the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-17 Yunhong Li , Zuo Quan Xu , Xun Yu Zhou

We formulate conditions for the solvability of the problem of robust utility maximization from final wealth in continuous time financial markets, without assuming weak compactness of the densities of the uncertainty set, as customary in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-14 Julio Backhoff , Joaquín Fontbona

We present an optimal investment theorem for a currency exchange model with random and possibly discontinuous proportional transaction costs. The investor's preferences are represented by a multivariate utility function, allowing for…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-04-08 Luciano Campi , Mark P. Owen

This paper solves a utility maximization problem under utility-based shortfall risk constraint, by proposing an approach using Lagrange multiplier and convex duality. Under mild conditions on the asymptotic elasticity of the utility…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-28 Oliver Janke , Qinghua Li

In this paper, we study expected utility maximization under ratchet and drawdown constraints on consumption in a general incomplete semimartingale market using duality methods. The optimization is considered with respect to two parameters:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Anastasiya Tanana

We consider the problem of optimizing the expected logarithmic utility of the value of a portfolio in a binomial model with proportional transaction costs with a long time horizon. By duality methods, we can find expressions for the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-09-25 Christian Bayer , Bezirgen Veliyev

We study the problem of maximising terminal utility for an agent facing model uncertainty, in a frictionless discrete-time market with one safe asset and finitely many risky assets. We show that an optimal investment strategy exists if the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-10 Miklós Rásonyi , Andrea Meireles-Rodrigues

We consider a utility-maximization problem in a general semimartingale financial model, subject to constraints on the number of shares held in each risky asset. These constraints are modeled by predictable convex-set-valued processes whose…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-02-25 Kasper Larsen , Gordan Žitković

This article studies the sensitivity of the power utility maximization problem with respect to the investor's relative risk aversion, the statistical probability measure, the investment constraints and the market price of risk. We extend…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-04 Markus Mocha , Nicholas Westray

The existence of optimal strategy in robust utility maximization is addressed when the utility function is finite on the entire real line. A delicate problem in this case is to find a "good definition" of admissible strategies, so that an…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-10-16 Keita Owari

We study the two-times differentiability of the value functions of the primal and dual optimization problems that appear in the setting of expected utility maximization in incomplete markets. We also study the differentiability of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Dmitry Kramkov , Mihai S\^{ı}rbu

We consider the economic problem of optimal consumption and investment with power utility. We study the optimal strategy as the relative risk aversion tends to infinity or to one. The convergence of the optimal consumption is obtained for…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-08-13 Marcel Nutz

We study a problem of utility maximization under model uncertainty with information including jumps. We prove first that the value process of the robust stochastic control problem is described by the solution of a quadratic-exponential…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Monique Jeanblanc , Anis Matoussi , Armand Ngoupeyou