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We study the problem of utility maximization from terminal wealth in which an agent optimally builds her portfolio by investing in a bond and a risky asset. The asset price dynamics follow a diffusion process with regime-switching…

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This paper introduces the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Proximal Policy Optimization (HJBPPO) algorithm into reinforcement learning. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation is used in control theory to evaluate the optimality of the value…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Amartya Mukherjee , Jun Liu

This article is a continuation of a previous work where we studied infinite horizon control problems for which the dynamic, running cost and control space may be different in two half-spaces of some euclidian space $\R^N$. In this article…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Guy Barles , Ariela Briani , Emmanuel Chasseigne

In this paper we propose and analyze a Discontinuous Galerkin method for a linear parabolic problem with dynamic boundary conditions. We present the formulation and prove stability and optimal a priori error estimates for the fully discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-21 Paola F. Antonietti , Maurizio Grasselli , Simone Stangalino , Marco Verani

This paper is concerned with an optimal reinsurance and investment problem for an insurance firm under the criterion of mean-variance. The driving Brownian motion and the rate in return of the risky asset price dynamic equation cannot be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-04 Shihao Zhu , Jingtao Shi

This paper introduces Deep Policy Iteration (DPI), a novel approach that integrates the strengths of Neural Networks with the stability and convergence advantages of Policy Iteration (PI) to address high-dimensional stochastic Mean Field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Mouhcine Assouli , Badr Missaoui

We present a method for finding optimal hedging policies for arbitrary initial portfolios and market states. We develop a novel actor-critic algorithm for solving general risk-averse stochastic control problems and use it to learn hedging…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-07-18 Phillip Murray , Ben Wood , Hans Buehler , Magnus Wiese , Mikko S. Pakkanen

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 the first part of this paper, we derive an infinite dimensional partial differential equation which describes an economic equilibrium in a model of storage which includes an infinite number of non-atomic agents. This equation has the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Charles Bertucci , Jean-Michel Lasry , Pierre Louis Lions

The main objective of this paper is to develop a martingale-type solution to optimal consumption--investment choice problems ([Merton, 1969] and [Merton, 1971]) under time-varying incomplete preferences driven by externalities such as…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-14 Weixuan Xia

We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

In this work we investigate the optimal proportional reinsurance-investment strategy of an insurance company which wishes to maximize the expected exponential utility of its terminal wealth in a finite time horizon. Our goal is to extend…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-04-04 Matteo Brachetta , Claudia Ceci

We propose a conforming finite element method to approximate the strong solution of the second order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation with Dirichlet boundary and coefficients satisfying Cordes condition. We show the convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Omar Lakkis , Amireh Mousavi

In this paper we study a risk-minimizing hedging problem for a semimartingale incomplete financial market where d+1 assets are traded continuously and whose price is expressed in units of the num\'{e}raire portfolio. According to the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-02-07 Claudia Ceci , Katia Colaneri , Alessandra Cretarola

Option pricing often requires solving partial differential equations (PDEs). Although deep learning-based PDE solvers have recently emerged as quick solutions to this problem, their empirical and quantitative accuracy remain not well…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-05-09 Jasper Rou

We consider an optimal dividend payout problem for an insurance company whose surplus follows the classical Cram\'er-Lundberg model. The dividend rate is subject to a ratcheting constraint (i.e., it must be nondecreasing over time), and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Chonghu Guan , Zuo Quan Xu

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

We investigate the optimal reinsurance problem under the criterion of maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth when the insurance company has restricted information on the loss process. We propose a risk model with claim arrival…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-05-15 Matteo Brachetta , Claudia Ceci

We study Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio selection problem in a continuous-time Black-Scholes market with different borrowing and saving rates. The associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is fully nonlinear. Using a delicate partial…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-05-31 Chonghu Guan , Xiaomin Shi , Zuo Quan Xu

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…

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