均值回归模型下最优人寿保险的购买和投资消费问题

本文考虑在均值回归回报模型下工资收益者的最优保险购买、消费和投资问题.假设工资收益者的收益是随机的,并且在退休前和退休后其风险偏好是可以改变的,则通过使用鞅方法,本文求得了在HARA(hyperbolic absolute risk aversion)效用下,工资收益者所采取的最优策略和值函数的显式表达式.     

带最低保障和红利的养老基金随机控制问题研究

本文提出了带有最低保障固定供款养老基金最优分配的连续时间随机控制模型。在带状态约束且考虑股票支付红利的最优随机控制模型框架下,用预期幂效用最大化刻画基金管理者对无限区间上养老基金财富的效用,运用随机控制给出了作为HJB方程解的值函数的显式解及反馈形式的最优投资策略的显式解。     

模型不确定和极端事件冲击下带通胀的最优投资组合选择问题研究

本文研究了投资者在极端事件冲击下带通胀的最优投资组合选择问题, 其中投资者不仅对损失风险是厌恶的而且对模型不确定也是厌恶的. 投资者在风险资产和无风险资产中进行投资. 首先, 利用Ito公式推导考虑通胀的消费篮子价格动力学方程, 其次由通胀折现的终端财富预期效用最大化, 对含糊厌恶投资者的最优期望效用进行刻画. 利用动态规划原理, 建立最优消费和投资策略所满足的HJB方程. 再次, 利用市场分解的方法解出HJB方程, 获得投资者最优消费和投资策略的显式解. 最后, 通过数值模拟, 分析了含糊厌恶、风险厌恶、跳和通胀因素对投资者最优资产配置策略的影响.     

跳扩散最优控制的随机最大值原理及在金融中的应用

讨论了由金融市场中投资组合和消费选择问题引出的一类最优控制问题,投资者的期望效用是常数相对风险厌恶(CRRA)情形.在跳扩散框架下,利用古典变分法得到了一个局部随机最大值原理.结果应用到最优投资组合和消费选择策略问题,得到了状态反馈形式的显式最优解.     

通胀环境下股价波动率具有奈特不确定的最优消费与投资问题

本文在通胀环境和连续时间模型假设下,研究股票价格波动率具有奈特不确定对投资者的最优消费和投资策略的影响．首先在通胀环境和股票价格波动率具有奈特不确定的条件下,建立最优消费与投资问题的随机控制数学模型,得到了最优消费与投资所满足的HJB方程,并在常相对风险厌恶效用的情形下,获得最优化问题值函数的显式解．其次在通胀环境中当股价波动率具有奈特不确定时,得到了含糊厌恶的投资者是基于股价波动率的上界作出决策,并给出了投资者的最优投资和消费策略．最后在给定参数的条件下,对所得结果进行数值模拟和经济分析．     

基于混合跳扩散模型的最优投资消费和寿险购买策略研究

本文研究在混合跳扩散模型下投资者分别投资于寿险、零息债券和股票时,关于最优投资消费和寿险购买的随机策略问题。通过构造满足混合跳扩散模型的金融市场、保险市场和可容许策略,在CRRA(constant relative risk aversion)效用下,利用动态规划的方法求解了对应的HJB方程,获得了值函数和最优策略的显式表达式。为了探索模型的有效性,本文给出了相对风险厌恶系数的数值分析以及相关参数对最优策略的影响。     

不确定的时间范围下含期权的最优投资决策

不同于以往研究的含期权的最优投资消费决策,研究了不确定的时间范围下含期权的最优投资决策,运用动态规划原理和随机分析的方法,解决对应的最优控制问题,最优策略可通过对应的HJB方程得到,并显式地得到了HARA效用下的最优投资策略及最优财富过程.     

Knight不确定下考虑保险和退休的最优消费-投资和遗产问题研究

研究在Knight不确定环境下,考虑投资者遗产和保险,在三种不同借款约束下的最优消费与投资问题.借助于倒向随机微分方程（BsDE）理论求出了投资者最优消费和投资策略的显式表达式.最后结合数值分析,给出含糊与含糊态度对最优消费和投资决策的影响.     

委托代理制度下企业和代理人的最优策略研究

本文研究了存在信息不对称和委托代理冲突时企业的最优投资时刻,工资策略和代理人的最优努力程度选取问题.已知企业拥有对某项目的投资选择权,由于专业技术的限制,股东将委托代理者经营此投资项目.投资后,该项目产生两部分价值,一部分可被股东获知且和投资时刻相关,另一部分只有代理人能观察到,且这部分价值的分布和代理人的努力程度相关.股东要选择最优的投资时刻和工资水平,在使代理人不谎报项目收益的情况下最大化企业的净折现收益(总折现收益一代理人的折现工资).代理人要选择最优的努力程度来最大化自己的净折现工资收入(折现工资一折现努力).因为一方的策略会影响另一方的策略选取,所以这其实是一个带限制条件的零和博弈问题.本文将分别给出第二部分收益服从离散型分布和连续型分布两种情形下双方的最优策略和值函数.     

基于通货膨胀和最低保障的DC养老金最优投资

主要研究了通货膨胀和最低保障下的DC养老金的最优投资问题。 首先, 应用伊藤公式得到通胀折现后真实股票价格的微分方程。 然后, 在DC养老金终端财富外部保障约束下, 引入欧式看涨期权, 考虑随机通胀环境下的退休时刻终端财富期望效用最大化问题, 应用鞅方法推导退休时刻以及退休前任意时刻DC养老金最优投资策略的显式解。 最后, 应用蒙特卡洛方法对结果进行数值分析, 分析最低保障对DC养老金最优投资策略的影响。     

Asset allocation,sustainable withdrawal,longevity risk and non-exponential discounting

The present paper studies an optimal withdrawal and investment problem for a retiree who is interested in sustaining her retirement consumption above a pre-specified minimum consumption level. Apparently, the withdrawal and investment policy depends substantially on the retiree’s health condition and her time preferences (subjective discount factor). We assume that the health of the retiree can worsen or improve in an unpredictable way over her lifetime and model the retiree’s mortality intensity by a stochastic process. In order to make the decision about the consumption and investment policy more realistic, we assume that the retiree applies a non-exponential discount factor (an exponential discount factor with a small amount of hyperbolic discounting) to value her future income. In other words, we consider an optimization problem by combining four important aspects: asset allocation, sustainable withdrawal, longevity risk and non-exponential discounting. Due to the non-exponential discount factor, we have to solve a time-inconsistent optimization problem. We derive a non-local HJB equation which characterizes the equilibrium optimal investment and consumption strategy. We establish the first-order expansions of the equilibrium value function and the equilibrium strategies by applying expansion techniques. The expansion is performed on the parameter controlling the degree of discounting in the hyperbolic discounting that is added to the exponential discount factors. The first-order equilibrium investment and consumption strategies can be calculated in a feasible way by solving PDEs.     

Vasicek利率模型下带有零息票债券的投资-消费模型

应用随机最优控制理论研究Vasicek利率模型下的投资-消费问题,其中假设无风险利率是服从Vasicek利率模型的随机过程,且与股票价格过程存在一般相关性.假设金融市场由一种无风险资产、一种风险资产和一种零息票债券所构成,投资者的目标是最大化中期消费与终端财富的期望贴现效用.应用变量替换方法得到了幂效用下最优投资-消费策略的显示表达式,并分析了最优投资-消费策略对市场参数的灵敏度.     

Optimal investment strategy for asset-liability management under the Heston model

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on an asset-liability management problem for an investor who can invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset whose price process is governed by the Heston model. The objective of the investor is to find an optimal investment strategy to maximize the expected exponential utility of the surplus process. By using the stochastic control method and variable change techniques, we obtain a closed-form solution of the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation. We also develop a verification theorem without the usual Lipschitz assumptions which can ensure that this closed-form solution is indeed the value function and then derive the optimal investment strategy explicitly. Finally, we provide numerical examples to show how the main parameters of the model affect the optimal investment strategy.     

Investment–consumption with regime-switching discount rates

This paper considers the problem of consumption and investment in a financial market within a continuous time stochastic economy. The investor exhibits a change in the discount rate. The investment opportunities are a stock and a riskless account. The market coefficients and discount factor switch according to a finite state Markov chain. The change in the discount rate leads to time inconsistencies of the investor’s decisions. The randomness in our model is driven by a Brownian motion and a Markov chain. Following Ekeland and Pirvu (2008) we introduce and characterize the subgame perfect strategies. Numerical experiments show the effect of time preference on subgame perfect strategies and the pre-commitment strategies.     

Indifference pricing for CRRA utilities

We study utility indifference pricing of claim streams with intertemporal consumption and constant relative risk aversion utilities. We derive explicit formulas for the derivatives of the utility indifference price with respect to claims and wealth. The elegant structure of these formulas is a reflection of surprising algebraic identities for the derivatives of the optimal consumption stream. Namely, the partial derivative of the optimal consumption stream with respect to the endowment is always a projection. Furthermore, it is an orthogonal projection with respect to a natural “economic inner product”. These algebraic identities generate cancellations between the terms entering derivatives of the indifference price and allow us to prove sharp global bounds for the indifference price that become exact when the claims to wealth ratio is large and risk aversion is between one and two. For general risk aversion, we show that, in the large claims to wealth ratio limit, the asymptotic expansion of the indifference price is given in terms of fractional powers of the wealth, depending on risk aversion. When risk aversion is equal to one, the fractional power depends on the underlying claim.     

Impatience and dynamic optimal behavior: A bifurcation analysis of the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan model

This paper provides a study of optimal economic growth under discounting in discrete time in a two-sector version of the Robinson-Solow-Srinivasan model. It examines how dynamic optimal behavior changes in response to increasing impatience. The optimal policy function is a pan map for high discount factors and a check map for low discount factors. It is shown that the transformation from the pan map to the check map, for the intermediate range of discount factors, can be quite intricate. This is demonstrated by proving the existence of two bifurcation values of the discount factor in the borderline case of the model, which establishes the possibility of reswitching of optimal actions as the discount factor varies.     

Portfolio optimization for a large investor under partial information and price impact

This paper studies portfolio optimization problems in a market with partial information and price impact. We consider a large investor with an objective of expected utility maximization from terminal wealth. The drift of the underlying price process is modeled as a diffusion affected by a continuous-time Markov chain and the actions of the large investor. Using the stochastic filtering theory, we reduce the optimal control problem under partial information to the one with complete observation. For logarithmic and power utility cases we solve the utility maximization problem explicitly and we obtain optimal investment strategies in the feedback form. We compare the value functions to those for the case without price impact in Bäuerle and Rieder (IEEE Trans Autom Control 49(3):442–447, 2004) and Bäuerle and Rieder (J Appl Prob 362–378, 2005). It turns out that the investor would be better off due to the presence of a price impact both in complete-information and partial-information settings. Moreover, the presence of the price impact results in a shift, which depends on the distance to final time and on the state of the filter, on the optimal control strategy.     

Optimal dynamic pricing of inventories with stochastic demand and discounted criterion

We consider a continuous time dynamic pricing problem for selling a given number of items over a finite or infinite time horizon. The demand is price sensitive and follows a non-homogeneous Poisson process. We formulate this problem as to maximize the expected discounted revenue and obtain the structural properties of the optimal revenue function and optimal price policy by the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Moreover, we study the impact of the discount rate on the optimal revenue function and the optimal price. Further, we extend the problem to the case with discounting and time-varying demand, the infinite time horizon problem. Numerical examples are used to illustrate our analytical results.     

Optimal order lot sizing and pricing with free shipping

Companies, especially those in e-business, are increasingly offering free shipping to buyers whose order sizes exceed the free shipping quantity. In this paper, given that the supplier offers free shipping, we determine the retailer’s optimal order lot size and the optimal retail price. We explicitly incorporate the supplier’s quantity discount, and transportation cost into the model. We analytically and numerically examine the impacts of free shipping, quantity discount and transportation cost on the retailer’s optimal lot sizing and pricing decisions. We find that free shipping can benefit the supplier, the retailer, and the end customers, and can effectively encourage the retailer to order more of the good, to the extent of ordering a few times of the optimal order lot size without free shipping. The order lot size will increase and the retail price will decrease if the supplier offers proper free shipping.