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We consider the optimal stopping of a class of spectrally negative jump diffusions. We state a set of conditions under which the value is shown to have a representation in terms of an ordinary nonlinear programming problem. We establish a…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-02-19 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Pekka Matomäki , Teppo A. Rakkolainen

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

In this paper we study the finite-horizon optimal covariance steering problem for a continuous-time linear stochastic system subject to both additive and multiplicative noise. The noise can be continuous or it may contain jumps. Additive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Fengjiao Liu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

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

This paper introduces a new class of optimal switching problems, where the player is allowed to switch at a sequence of exogenous Poisson arrival times, and the underlying switching system is governed by an infinite horizon backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Gechun Liang , Wei Wei

The scope of this paper is to study the optimal stopping problems associated to a stochastic process, which may represent the gain of an investment, for which information on the final value is available a priori. This information may…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Bernardo D'Auria , Alessandro Ferriero

For an infinite-horizon continuous-time optimal stopping problem under non-exponential discounting, we look for an optimal equilibrium, which generates larger values than any other equilibrium does on the entire state space. When the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Yu-Jui Huang , Zhou Zhou

In most real cases transition probabilities between operational modes of Markov jump linear systems cannot be computed exactly and are time-varying. We take into account this aspect by considering Markov jump linear systems where the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Y. Zacchia Lun , A. Abate , A. D'Innocenzo

We consider the infinite horizon risk-sensitive problem for nondegenerate diffusions with a compact action space, and controlled through the drift. We only impose a structural assumption on the running cost function, namely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Ari Arapostathis , Anup Biswas

We study the problem of optimal stopping of conditional McKean-Vlasov (mean-field) stochastic differential equations with jumps (conditional McKean-Vlasov jump diffusions, for short). We obtain sufficient variational inequalities for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal

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

Considering a real-valued diffusion, a real-valued reward function and a positive discount rate, we provide an algorithm to solve the optimal stopping problem consisting in finding the optimal expected discounted reward and the optimal…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Fabián Crocce , Ernesto Mordecki

We show that optimal stopping surfaces $(t,y)\mapsto x_*(t,y)$ arising from time-inhomogeneous optimal stopping problems on two-dimensional jump-diffusions $(X,Y)$ are continuous (jointly in time and space) under mild monotonicity and…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Cheng Cai , Tiziano De Angelis , Jan Palczewski

We address the problem of making a managerial decision when the investment project is subsidized, which results in the resolution of an infinite-horizon optimal stopping problem of a switching diffusion driven by either an homogeneous or an…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Carlos Oliveira , Nicolas Perkowski

We study the optimal dividend problem for a firm's manager who has partial information on the profitability of the firm. The problem is formulated as one of singular stochastic control with partial information on the drift of the underlying…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tiziano De Angelis

Reflected diffusions naturally arise in many problems from applications ranging from economics and mathematical biology to queueing theory. In this paper we consider a class of infinite time-horizon singular stochastic control problems for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Giorgio Ferrari

We present discrete-time approximation of optimal control policies for infinite horizon discounted/ergodic control problems for controlled diffusions in $\Rd$\,. In particular, our objective is to show near optimality of optimal policies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Somnath Pradhan , Serdar Yuksel

This paper is concerned with a time-inconsistent stochastic optimal control problem in an infinite time horizon with a non-degenerate diffusion in the state equation. A major assumption is that people become rational after a large time.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Qingmeng Wei , Jiongmin Yong

This paper considers the infinite horizon optimal control problem for nonlinear systems. Under the condition of nonlinear controllability of the system to any terminal set containing the origin and forward invariance of the terminal set, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Mohamed Naveed Gul Mohamed , Abhijeet , Aayushman Sharma , Raman Goyal , Suman Chakravorty

We consider a singular stochastic control problem, which is called the Monotone Follower Stochastic Control Problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of a local-time type optimal control. To establish this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Erhan Bayraktar , Masahiko Egami