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This paper investigates the relationship between Pontryagin's maximum principle and dynamic programming principle in the context of stochastic optimal control systems governed by stochastic evolution equations with random coefficients in…

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In this paper, we consider the portfolio optimization problem in a financial market under a general utility function. Empirical results suggest that if a significant market fluctuation occurs, invested wealth tends to have a notable change…

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In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control of systems driven by stochastic differential equations with irregular drift coefficient. We establish a necessary and sufficient stochastic maximum principle. To achieve this, we first…

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A new framework for portfolio diversification is introduced which goes beyond the classical mean-variance approach and portfolio allocation strategies such as risk parity. It is based on a novel concept called portfolio dimensionality that…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-23 Mathias Barkhagen , Brian Fleming , Sergio Garcia Quiles , Jacek Gondzio , Joerg Kalcsics , Jens Kroeske , Sotirios Sabanis , Arne Staal

In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for a company whose surplus process evolves as an upward jump diffusion with random return on investment. Three types of practical optimization problems faced by a company that can control…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-04 Chuancun Yin , Kam Chuen Yuen

A mean-field selective optimal control problem of multipopulation dynamics via transient leadership is considered. The agents in the system are described by their spatial position and their probability of belonging to a certain population.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Giacomo Albi , Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

In this paper, we study the relationship between maximum principle (MP) and dynamic programming principle (DPP) for stochastic recursive optimal control problem driven by $G$-Brownian motion. Under the smooth assumption for the value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Xiaojuan Li

We consider stochastic impulse control problems where the process is driven by a general one-dimensional diffusion. We shall show a new mathematical characterization of the value function as a linear function in a certain transformed space.…

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In the option valuation literature, the shortcomings of one factor stochastic volatility models have traditionally been addressed by adding jumps to the stock price process. An alternate approach in the context of option pricing and…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-24 Gifty Malhotra , R. Srivastava , H. C. Taneja

Sample average approximation--based stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) and model predictive control (MPC) are two different methods for approaching multistage stochastic optimization. In this paper we investigate the conditions under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Dominic S. T. Keehan , Andrew B. Philpott , Edward J. Anderson

In this paper, we study the relationship between maximum principle (MP) and dynamic programming principle (DPP) for forward-backward control system under consistent convex expectation dominated by G-expectation. Under the smooth assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Xiaojuan Li , Mingshang Hu

We consider the problem of optimal investment and consumption in a class of multidimensional jump-diffusion models in which asset prices are subject to mutually exciting jump processes. This captures a type of contagion where each downward…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-10-08 Yacine Aït-Sahalia , T. R. Hurd

This paper studies open-loop equilibriums for a general class of time-inconsistent stochastic control problems under jump-diffusion SDEs with deterministic coefficients. Inspired by the idea of Four-Step-Scheme for forward-backward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Ishak Alia

This paper is concerned with portfolio selection for an investor with exponential, power, and logarithmic utility in multi-asset financial markets allowing jumps. We investigate the classical Merton's portfolio optimization problem in a…

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Risk control and optimal diversification constitute a major focus in the finance and insurance industries as well as, more or less consciously, in our everyday life. We present a discussion of the characterization of risks and of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Didier Sornette

This work studies a two-time-scale functional system given by two jump-diffusions under the scale separation by a small parameter $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$. The coefficients of the equations that govern the dynamics of the system depend…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-15 André de Oliveira Gomes , Pedro Catuogno

Temporal point processes have been widely applied to model event sequence data generated by online users. In this paper, we consider the problem of how to design the optimal control policy for point processes, such that the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Yichen Wang , Grady Williams , Evangelos Theodorou , Le Song

This paper analyzes a discretization of a stochastic parabolic optimal control problem, where the diffusion term contains the control variable. With rough data, the convergence of the discretization is derived. In addition, a Monte-Carlo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Binjie Li , Qin Zhou , Xiaoping Xie

The classical Markowitz mean-variance model uses variance as a risk measure and calculates frontier portfolios in closed form by using standard optimization techniques. For general mean-risk models such closed form optimal portfolios are…

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