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In this paper the robust utility maximization problem for a market model based on L\'evy processes is analyzed. The interplay between the form of the utility function and the penalization function required to have a well posed problem is…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-06-05 Daniel Hernández-Hernández , Leonel Pérez-Hernández

This paper investigates a time-inconsistent portfolio selection problem in the incomplete mar ket model, integrating expected utility maximization with risk control. The objective functional balances the expected utility and variance on log…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-02 Yue Cao , Zongxia Liang , Sheng Wang , Xiang Yu

We review the utility-based valuation method for pricing derivative securities in incomplete markets. In particular, we review the practical approach to the utility-based pricing by the means of computing the first order expansion of…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-03-31 David German

We revisit optimal execution of an active portfolio in the presence of slippage (aka linear, proportional, or absolute-value) costs. Market efficiency implies a close balance between active alphas and trading costs, so even small changes to…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2021-10-29 Michael Isichenko

We present a number of examples and counterexamples to illustrate the results on cost-efficiency in an incomplete market obtained in [BS24]. These examples and counterexamples do not only illustrate the results obtained in [BS24], but show…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Carole Bernard , Stephan Sturm

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…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-27 Yan Dolinsky , Or Zuk

This paper investigates optimal portfolio strategies in a financial market where the drift of the stock returns is driven by an unobserved Gaussian mean reverting process. Information on this process is obtained from observing stock returns…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-03-15 Abdelali Gabih , Hakam Kondakji , Jörn Sass , Ralf Wunderlich

We consider the problem of option hedging in a market with proportional transaction costs. Since super-replication is very costly in such markets, we replace perfect hedging with an expected loss constraint. Asymptotic analysis for small…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2014-09-12 Bruno Bouchard , Ludovic Moreau , Mete H. Soner

We consider a game-theoretic model of a market where investors compete for payoffs yielded by several assets. The main result consists in a proof of the existence and uniqueness of a strategy, called relative growth optimal, such that the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-24 Yaroslav Drokin , Mikhail Zhitlukhin

We consider an agent who needs to buy (or sell) a relatively small amount of asset over some fixed short time interval. We work at the highest frequency meaning that we wish to find the optimal tactic to execute our quantity using limit…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2018-03-16 Charles-Albert Lehalle , Othmane Mounjid , Mathieu Rosenbaum

In electricity markets, customers are increasingly constrained by their budgets. A budget constraint for a user is an upper bound on the price multiplied by the quantity. However, since prices are determined by the market equilibrium, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lila Perkins , Baosen Zhang

We consider an optimal consumption/investment problem to maximize expected utility from consumption. In this market model, the investor is allowed to choose a portfolio which consists of one bond, one liquid risky asset (no transaction…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-01-30 Jin Hyuk Choi

Social utility maximization refers to the process of allocating resources in such a way that the sum of agents' utilities is maximized under the system constraints. Such allocation arises in several problems in the general area of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Abhinav Sinha , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We study the expected utility portfolio optimization problem in an incomplete financial market where the risky asset dynamics depend on stochastic factors and the portfolio allocation is constrained to lie within a given convex set. We…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-03-20 Marcos Escobar-Anel , Michel Kschonnek , Rudi Zagst

This paper studies the utility maximization on the terminal wealth with random endowments and proportional transaction costs. To deal with unbounded random payoffs from some illiquid claims, we propose to work with the acceptable portfolios…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-27 Erhan Bayraktar , Xiang Yu

We consider a problem of optimal investment with intermediate consumption in the framework of an incomplete semimartingale model of a financial market. We show that a necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of key assertions of…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2012-07-17 Oleksii Mostovyi

In frictionless markets, utility maximization problems are typically solved either by stochastic control or by martingale methods. Beginning with the seminal paper of Davis and Norman [Math. Oper. Res. 15 (1990) 676--713], stochastic…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2010-10-26 J. Kallsen , J. Muhle-Karbe

In a financial market model, we consider variations of the problem of minimizing the expected time to upcross a certain wealth level. For exponential Levy markets, we show the asymptotic optimality of the growth-optimal portfolio for the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2009-04-14 Constantinos Kardaras , Eckhard Platen

The sum-utility maximization problem is known to be important in the energy systems literature. The conventional assumption to address this problem is that the utility is concave. But for some key applications, such an assumption is not…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Chao Zhang , Samson Lasaulce , Li Wang , Lucas Saludjian , H. Vincent Poor

Risk-neutral pricing dictates that the discounted derivative price is a martingale in a measure equivalent to the economic measure. The residual ambiguity for incomplete markets is here resolved by minimising the entropy of the price…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-01 Paul McCloud