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The goal of this thesis is to provide efficient and provably convergent numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) coming from impulse control problems motivated by finance. Impulses, which are controlled jumps in a…
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Deterministic optimal impulse control problem with terminal state constraint is considered. Due to the appearance of the terminal state constraint, the value function might be discontinuous in general. The main contribution of this paper is…