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This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines that faces three critical decisions: (1) dividend payout, (2) reinsurance coverage, and (3) capital injection between the lines, in the presence of model uncertainty. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Tim J. Boonen , Engel John C. Dela Vega , Len Patrick Dominic M. Garces

This paper studies the optimal dividend for a multi-line insurance group, in which each subsidiary runs a product line and is exposed to some external credit risk. The default contagion is considered such that one default event may increase…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-30 Zhuo Jin , Huafu Liao , Yue Yang , Xiang Yu

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 the dividend strategies for a shareholder with non-constant discount rate in a diffusion risk model. We assume that the dividends can only be paid at a bounded rate and restrict ourselves to the Markov strategies.…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-06 Qian Zhao , Jiaqin Wei , Rongming Wang

In this paper we assume the insurance wealth process is driven by the compound Poisson process. The discounting factor is modelled as a geometric Brownian motion at first and then as an exponential function of an integrated…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-24 Linlin Tian , Xiaoyi Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal investment by an insurer. The insurer invests in a market consisting of a bank account and $m$ risky assets. The mean returns and volatilities of the risky assets depend nonlinearly on…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-22 Hiroaki Hata , Shuenn-Jyi Sheu , Li-Hsien Sun

We propose a model in which dividend payments occur at regular, deterministic intervals in an otherwise continuous model. This contrasts traditional models where either the payment of continuous dividends is controlled or the dynamics are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Jussi Keppo , Max Reppen , H. Mete Soner

We study an optimal dividend problem for an insurer who simultaneously controls investment weights in a financial market, liability ratio in the insurance business, and dividend payout rate. The insurer seeks an optimal strategy to maximize…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-05-27 Zhuo Jin , Zuo Quan Xu , Bin Zou

This paper studies the optimal dividend problem with capital injection under the constraint that the cumulative dividend strategy is absolutely continuous. We consider an open problem of the general spectrally negative case and derive the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-06-12 José-Luis Pérez , Kazutoshi Yamazaki , Xiang Yu

In this paper, we extend the jump-diffusion model proposed by Davis and Lleo to include jumps in asset prices as well as valuation factors. The criterion, following earlier work by Bielecki, Pliska, Nagai and others, is risk-sensitive…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2010-03-15 Mark Davis , Sebastien Lleo

We consider the mean--variance portfolio optimization problem under the game theoretic framework and without risk-free assets. The problem is solved semi-explicitly by applying the extended Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation. Although the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-02-17 Chi Kin Lam , Yuhong Xu , Guosheng Yin

This paper addresses the problem of utility maximization under uncertain parameters. In contrast with the classical approach, where the parameters of the model evolve freely within a given range, we constrain them via a penalty function. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

The main purpose of this paper is to analyze solutions to a fully nonlinear parabolic equation arising from the problem of optimal portfolio construction. We show how the problem of optimal stock to bond proportion in the management of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-05 Zuzana Macova , Daniel Sevcovic

We analyze the optimal dividend payment problem in the dual model under constant transaction costs. We show, for a general spectrally positive L\'{e}vy process, an optimal strategy is given by a $(c_1,c_2)$-policy that brings the surplus…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Erhan Bayraktar , Andreas Kyprianou , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

The dual risk model is a popular model in finance and insurance, which is often used to model the wealth process of a venture capital or high tech company. Optimal dividends have been extensively studied in the literature for a dual risk…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2022-12-08 Arash Fahim , Lingjiong Zhu

This paper deals with numerical solutions of maximizing expected utility from terminal wealth under a non-bankruptcy constraint. The wealth process is subject to shocks produced by a general marked point process. The problem of the agent is…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-09-06 Mohamed Mnif

This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines, and the risk exposure of each line follows a diffusion risk model. The manager of the insurer makes three decisions for each line: (i) dividend payout, (ii)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Tim J. Boonen , Engel John C. Dela Vega , Bin Zou

This paper considers an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company where the dividends are paid in a foreign currency. In the absence of dividend payments, our risk process follows a spectrally negative L\'evy process.…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-01-14 Julia Eisenberg , Zbigniew Palmowski

Avanzi et al. (2016) recently studied an optimal dividend problem where dividends are paid both periodically and continuously with different transaction costs. In the Brownian model with Poissonian periodic dividend payment opportunities,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 José-Luis Pérez , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

We study the problem of optimal portfolio selection under stochastic volatility within a continuous time reinforcement learning framework with portfolio constraints. Exploration is modeled through entropy-regularized relaxed controls, where…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-27 Thai Nguyen , Pertiny Nkuize