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This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a discrete-time financial market model with a finite horizon under non-dominated model uncertainty. We use a dynamic programming framework together with…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-10-03 Laurence Carassus , Romain Blanchard

In the Bayesian approach to sequential decision making, exact calculation of the (subjective) utility is intractable. This extends to most special cases of interest, such as reinforcement learning problems. While utility bounds are known to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-14 Christos Dimitrakakis

This paper studies decision problems where the decision maker's choice of action affects the probability distribution of a payoff relevant random variable. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of an expected utility…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-29 Ayush Gupta

We study a stochastic model for the installation of renewable energy capacity under demand uncertainty and jump driven dynamics. The system is governed by a multidimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process driven by a subordinator,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Nacira Agram , Fred Espen Benth , Giulia Pucci , Jan Rems

In this paper, we study a class of quadratic Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs) which arises naturally when studying the problem of utility maximization with portfolio constraints. We first establish existence and uniqueness…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Marie-Amelie Morlais

This paper investigates an optimal consumption-investment problem featuring recursive utility via Tsallis relative entropy. We establish a fundamental connection between this optimization problem and a quadratic backward stochastic…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-26 Xueying Huang , Peng Luo , Dejian Tian

We consider a general class of dynamic resource allocation problems within a stochastic optimal control framework. This class of problems arises in a wide variety of applications, each of which intrinsically involves resources of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Xuefeng Gao , Yingdong Lu , Mayank Sharma , Mark S. Squillante , Joost W. Bosman

This paper proposes two algorithms for solving stochastic control problems with deep learning, with a focus on the utility maximisation problem. The first algorithm solves Markovian problems via the Hamilton Jacobi Bellman (HJB) equation.…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-15 Ashley Davey , Harry Zheng

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

We develop a method to solve, theoretically and numerically, general optimal stopping problems. Our general setting allows for multiple exercise rights, i.e., optimal multiple stopping, for a robust evaluation that accounts for model…

This paper studies the problem of optimal investment in incomplete markets, robust with respect to stopping times. We work on a Brownian motion framework and the stopping times are adapted to the Brownian filtration. Robustness can only be…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Traian A Pirvu , Ulrich G Haussmann

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

This article studies the problem of utility maximization in an incomplete market under a class of nonlinear expectations and general constraints on trading strategies. Using a $g$-martingale method, we provide an explicit solution to our…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-01-30 Wahid Faidi

We show a concise extension of the monotone stability approach to backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) that are jointly driven by a Brownian motion and a random measure for jumps, which could be of infinite activity with a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Dirk Becherer , Martin Büttner , Klebert Kentia

The objectives and contributions of this paper are mathematical and numerical analyses of a stochastic control problem of bounded population dynamics under ambiguity, an important but not well-studied problem, focusing on the optimality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-06 H. Yoshioka , M. Tsujimura

This memoir presents a systematic study of the utility maximization problem of an investor in a constrained and unbounded financial market. Building upon the work of Hu et al. (2005) [Ann. Appl. Probab., 15, 1691--1712] in a bounded…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Ying Hu , Gechun Liang , Shanjian Tang

We consider the utility maximization problem under convex constraints with regard to theoretical results which allow the formulation of algorithmic solvers which make use of deep learning techniques. In particular for the case of random…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-17 Kristof Wiedermann

The aim of this short note is to present a solution to the discrete time exponential utility maximization problem in a case where the underlying asset has a multivariate normal distribution. In addition to the usual setting considered in…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-27 Yan Dolinsky , Or Zuk

We consider a stochastic impulse control problem that is motivated by applications such as the optimal exploitation of a natural resource. In particular, we consider a stochastic system whose uncontrolled state dynamics are modelled by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Zhesheng Liu , Mihail Zervos

In this paper we deal with the utility maximization problem with a general utility function. We derive a new approach in which we reduce the utility maximization problem with general utility to the study of a fully-coupled Forward-Backward…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-10-13 Ulrich Horst , Ying Hu , Peter Imkeller , Anthony Réveillac , Jianing Zhang