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We solve a problem of singular stochastic control with discretionary stopping, suggested as an interesting open problem by Karatzas, Ocone, Wang and Zervos (2000), by providing suitable candidates for the moving boundaries in an unsolved…
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In a classical optimal stopping problem the aim is to maximize the expected value of a functional of a diffusion evaluated at a stopping time. This note considers optimal stopping problems beyond this paradigm. We study problems in which…
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