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We consider a utility maximization problem for an investment-consumption portfolio when the current utility depends also on the wealth process. Such kind of problems arise, e.g., in portfolio optimization with random horizon or with random…

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We present a new kind of Lagrangian duality theory for set-valued convex optimization problems whose objective and constraint maps are defined between preordered normed spaces. The theory is accomplished by introducing a new set-valued…

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In this paper, we employ the concept of quasi-relative interior to analyze the method of Lagrange multipliers and establish strong Lagrangian duality for nonsmooth convex optimization problems in Hilbert spaces. Then, we generalize the…

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In this paper, we first conduct a study of the portfolio selection problem, incorporating both exogenous (proportional) and endogenous (resulting from liquidity risk, characterized by a stochastic process) transaction costs through the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-03 Dong Yan , Nanyi Zhang , Junyi Guo

We establish the existence and characterization of a primal and a dual facelift - discontinuity of the value function at the terminal time - for utility-maximization in incomplete semimartingale-driven financial markets. Unlike in the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-04-09 Kasper Larsen , H. Mete Soner , Gordan Zitkovic

We explore martingale and convex duality techniques to study optimal investment strategies that maximize expected risk-averse utility from consumption and terminal wealth. We consider a market model with jumps driven by (multivariate)…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-09-22 Mauricio Junca , Rafael Serrano

We propose two numerical algorithms in the fully nonconvex setting for the minimization of the sum of a smooth function and the composition of a nonsmooth function with a linear operator. The iterative schemes are formulated in the spirit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Radu Ioan Bot , Dang-Khoa Nguyen

In this paper, we introduce a Lagrange multiplier approach to construct linearly implicit energy-preserving schemes of arbitrary order for general Hamiltonian PDEs. Unlike the widely used auxiliary variable methods, this novel approach does…

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This paper solves a utility maximization problem under utility-based shortfall risk constraint, by proposing an approach using Lagrange multiplier and convex duality. Under mild conditions on the asymptotic elasticity of the utility…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-28 Oliver Janke , Qinghua Li

We study a class of optimization problems in which the objective function is given by the sum of a differentiable but possibly nonconvex component and a nondifferentiable convex regularization term. We introduce an auxiliary variable to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Neil K. Dhingra , Sei Zhen Khong , Mihailo R. Jovanović

In this paper we investigate a dynamic stochastic portfolio optimization problem involving both the expected terminal utility and intertemporal utility maximization. We solve the problem by means of a solution to a fully nonlinear…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-03-26 Sona Kilianova , Daniel Sevcovic

The continuous nonlinear resource allocation problem (CONRAP) has broad applications in economics, engineering, production and inventory management, and often serves as a subproblem in complex programming. Without relying on monotonicity…

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We investigate expected utility maximization problems from the terminal liquidation value in continuous time in markets with transaction costs and one fixed consistent price system, where a non-concave utility function is defined on the…

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This work considers a short-term, continuous time setting characterized by a coupled power supply system controlled exclusively by a single provider and comprising a cascade of hydropower systems (dams), fossil fuel power stations, and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Chiheb Ben Hammouda , Eliza Rezvanova , Erik von Schwerin , Raúl Tempone

We consider non-concave and non-smooth random utility functions with do- main of definition equal to the non-negative half-line. We use a dynamic pro- gramming framework together with measurable selection arguments to establish both the…

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This paper addresses the problem of utility maximization under uncertain parameters. In contrast with the classical approach, where the parameters of the model evolve freely within a given range, we constrain them via a penalty function. We…

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Our goal is to analyze the system of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising in derivative securities pricing models. The European style of an option price is constructed as a difference of the certainty equivalents to the value functions…

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We develop a Lagrange multiplier theory for nonconvex set-valued optimization problems under Lipschitz-type regularity conditions. Instead of classical continuous linear functionals, we introduce closed convex processes -- set-valued…

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We study finite-horizon optimal switching with discrete intervention dates on a general filtration, allowing continuous-time observations between decision dates, and develop a deep-learning-based dual framework with computable upper bounds.…

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