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In this paper, we investigate optimal stopping problems in a continuous-time framework where only a discrete set of stopping dates is admissible, corresponding to the Bermudan option, within the so-called exploratory formulation. We…

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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

We consider the problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption in a general semimartingale model of an incomplete market, with preferences being represented by a utility stochastic field. We show that the key conclusions of the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2017-09-20 Huy N. Chau , Andrea Cosso , Claudio Fontana , Oleksii Mostovyi

The notion of utility maximising entropy (u-entropy) of a probability density, which was introduced and studied by Slomczynski and Zastawniak (Ann. Prob 32 (2004) 2261-2285, arXiv:math.PR/0410115 v1), is extended in two directions. First,…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-02 Grzegorz Harańczyk , Wojciech Słomczyński , Tomasz Zastawniak

We consider the problem of maximising expected utility from terminal wealth in a semimartingale setting, where the semimartingale is written as a sum of a time-changed Brownian motion and a finite variation process. To solve this problem,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Giulia Di Nunno , Hannes Haferkorn , Asma Khedher , Michèle Vanmaele

In this paper we study a utility maximization problem with random horizon and reduce it to the analysis of a specific BSDE, which we call BSDE with singular coefficients, when the support of the default time is assumed to be bounded. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Monique Jeanblanc , Thibaut Mastrolia , Dylan Possamaï , Anthony Réveillac

In this paper, we aim to solve the high dimensional stochastic optimal control problem from the view of the stochastic maximum principle via deep learning. By introducing the extended Hamiltonian system which is essentially an FBSDE with a…

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This paper is concerned with Merton's portfolio optimization problem in a Volterra stochastic environment described by a multivariate fake stationary Volterra--Heston model. Due to the non-Markovianity and non-semimartingality of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Emmanuel Gnabeyeu

In this study, we consider an optimal control problem driven by a stochastic differential system with a stopping time terminal cost functional. We establish the stochastic maximum principle for this new kind of an optimal control problem by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Shuzhen Yang

In this paper, we study a class of second order backward stochastic differential equations (2BSDEs) with quadratic growth in coefficients. We first establish solvability for such 2BSDEs and then give their applications to robust utility…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Yiqing Lin

In this paper we find tight sufficient conditions for the continuity of the value of the utility maximization problem from terminal wealth with respect to the convergence in distribution of the underlying processes. We also establish a weak…

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In this paper, we propose a novel maximum causal Tsallis entropy (MCTE) framework for imitation learning which can efficiently learn a sparse multi-modal policy distribution from demonstrations. We provide the full mathematical analysis of…

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In this paper we study the problem of maximizing expected utility from the terminal wealth with proportional transaction costs and random endowment. In the context of the existence of consistent price systems, we consider the duality…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-09-06 Yiqing Lin , Junjian Yang

In this paper we are concerned with the maximum principle for quasi-linear backward stochastic partial differential equations (BSPDEs for short) of parabolic type. We first prove the existence and uniqueness of the weak solution to…

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This paper investigates optimal control problems for delayed systems governed by Infinitely Anticipated Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (IABSDEs). Unlike existing frameworks limited to bounded delays, we introduce a generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Guanwei Cheng

This paper investigates a robust optimal consumption, investment, and reinsurance problem for an insurer with Epstein-Zin recursive preferences operating under model uncertainty. The insurer's surplus follows the diffusion approximation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Elizabeth Dadzie , Wilfried Kuissi-Kamdem , Marcel Ndengo

We study the problem of optimal control of a coupled system of forward-backward stochastic Volterra equations. We use Hida-Malliavin calculus to prove a sufficient and a necessary maximum principle for the optimal control of such systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Nacira Agram , Bernt Øksendal , Samia Yakhlef

This paper addresses the numerical solution of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) arising in stochastic optimal control. Specifically, we investigate two BSDEs: one derived from the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei

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…

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