后悔厌恶对商业银行存贷款定价的影响

存贷利差收入是银行主要的收入来源,存贷款定价问题是银行经营管理、风险控制的核心之一.在"代理商"模型的基础上,引入后悔系数和后悔效用函数,建立了基于双重厌恶银行的期望效用函数,并利用极值理论,确定了最优存贷款利差.双重厌恶期望效用函数反映了银行风险厌恶和后悔厌恶的双重特点,解决了现有研究忽略后悔情绪导致模型出现偏差的问题.从理论上分析了双重厌恶型银行最优的存贷款利差的决策问题,给出了其与市场风险、信用风险以及后悔情绪之间的关系.通过与纯风险厌恶型银行最优决策的对比发现,对于双重厌恶型银行来说,信用风险对存贷利差影响的弹性要小于纯风险厌恶型银行,而后悔厌恶程度越大其弹性就越小.由于后悔心理的存在减小了信用风险对存贷款利差影响的弹性.     

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment with transaction costs, I: Maximizing the terminal wealth

We consider a problem of optimal reinsurance and investment with multiple risky assets for an insurance company whose surplus is governed by a linear diffusion. The insurance company’s risk can be reduced through reinsurance, while in addition the company invests its surplus in a financial market with one risk-free asset and n risky assets. In this paper, we consider the transaction costs when investing in the risky assets. Also, we use Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) to control the whole risk. We consider the optimization problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth and solve it by using the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Explicit expression for the optimal value function and the corresponding optimal strategies are obtained.     

Portfolio Optimization with Stochastic Volatilities and Constraints: An Application in High Dimension

In this paper we are interested in an investment problem with stochastic volatilities and portfolio constraints on amounts. We model the risky assets by jump diffusion processes and we consider an exponential utility function. The objective is to maximize the expected utility from the investor terminal wealth. The value function is known to be a viscosity solution of an integro-differential Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB in short) equation which could not be solved when the risky assets number exceeds three. Thanks to an exponential transformation, we reduce the nonlinearity of the HJB equation to a semilinear equation. We prove the existence of a smooth solution to the latter equation and we state a verification theorem which relates this solution to the value function. We present an example that shows the importance of this reduction for numerical study of the optimal portfolio. We then compute the optimal strategy of investment by solving the associated optimization problem.     

Optimal mortgage loan securitization and the subprime crisis

We analyze the process of mortgage loan securitization that has been a root cause of the current subprime mortgage crisis (SMC). In particular, we solve an optimal securitization problem for banks that has the cash outflow rate for financing a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and the bank’s investment in MBSs as controls. In our case, the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation (HJBE) has a smooth solution when the optimal controls are computed via a power utility function. Finally, we analyze this optimization problem and its connections with the SMC.     

通胀风险下基于HARA效用的DC型养老金计划

通货膨胀是养老基金管理过程中最直接最重要的影响因素之一. 假设通胀风险由服从几何布朗运动的物价指数来度量, 且瞬时期望通货膨胀率由Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程来驱动. 金融市场由n+1种可连续交易的风险资产所构成, 养老基金管理者期望研究和解决通胀风险环境下DC型养老基金在累积阶段的最优投资策略问题, 以最大化终端真实财富过程的期望效用. 双曲绝对风险厌恶(HARA)效用函数具有一般的效用框架, 包含幂效用、指数效用和对数效用作为特例. 假设投资者对风险的偏好程度满足HARA效用, 运用随机最优控制理论和Legendre变换方法得到了最优投资策略的显式表达式.     

Optimal dynamic asset allocation of pension fund in mortality and salary risks framework

In this paper, we consider the optimal dynamic asset allocation of pension fund with mortality risk and salary risk. The managers of the pension fund try to find the optimal investment policy (optimal asset allocation) to maximize the expected utility of terminal wealth. The market is a combination of financial market and insurance market. The financial market consists of three assets: cashes with stochastic interest rate, stocks and rolling bonds, while the insurance market consists of mortality risk and salary risk. These two non-hedging risks cause incompleteness of the market. By martingale method and dynamic programming principle we first derive the approximate optimal investment policy to overcome the difficulty, then investigate the efficiency of the approximation. Finally, we solve an optimal assets liabilities management(ALM) problem with mortality risk and salary risk under CRRA utility, and reveal the influence of these two risks on the optimal investment policy by numerical illustration.     

Admissible investment strategies in continuous trading

We consider a situation where relative prices of assets may change continuously and also have discrete jumps at random time points. The problem is the one of portfolio optimization. If the utility function used is the logarithm, we first argue that an optimal investment plan exists. Secondly, we show that any such plan has a certain optimality property known to hold also in discrete time models. Moreover, we show that this optimality criterion can be simplified significantly. In particular we show how admissibility can be related directly to observable characteristics of the investment strategy.     

Optimal Investment in a Levy Market

In this paper we consider the optimal investment problem in a market where the stock price process is modeled by a geometric Levy process (taking into account jumps). Except for the geometric Brownian model and the geometric Poissonian model, the resulting models are incomplete and there are many equivalent martingale measures. However, the model can be completed by the so-called power-jump assets. By doing this we allow investment in these new assets and we can try to maximize the expected utility of these portfolios. As particular cases we obtain the optimal portfolios based in stocks and bonds, showing that the new assets are superfluous for certain martingale measures that depend on the utility function we use.     

考虑交易费用和债务的再保险和投资问题

该文考虑了保险公司的再保险和投资在多种风险资产中的策略问题. 假设保险公司本身有着一定的债务, 债务的多少服从线性扩散方程. 保险公司可以通过再保险和将再保险之后的剩余资产投资在m种风险资产和一种无风险资产中降低其风险. 资产中风险资产的价格波动服从几何布朗运动, 其债务多少的演化也是依据布朗运动而上下波动. 该文考虑了风险资产与债务之间的相互关系, 考虑了在进行风险投资时的交易费用, 并且利用HJB方程求得保险公司的最大最终资产的预期指数效用, 给出了相应的最优价值函数和最优策略的数值解.     

Log-Optimal Portfolios with Memory Effect

ABSTRACT

In portfolio optimization a classical problem is to trade with assets so as to maximize some kind of utility of the investor. In our paper this problem is investigated for assets whose prices depend on their past values in a non-Markovian way. Such models incorporate several features of real price processes better than Markov processes do. Our utility function is the widespread logarithmic utility, the formulation of the model is discrete in time. Despite the problem being a well-known one, there are few results where memory is treated systematically in a parametric model. Our algorithm is optimal and this optimality is guaranteed for a rich class of model specifications. Moreover, the algorithm runs online, i.e., the optimal investment is achieved in a day-by-day manner, using simple numerical integration, without Monte-Carlo simulations. Theoretical results are demonstrated by numerical experiments as well.     

基于双曲折现的跨期消费和投资组合的一种解析

通过在默顿(1969年,1971年)的经典模型中引入Harris和Laibson(2013年)的随机双曲偏好,研究得到了针对常绝对风险厌恶效用函数的最优消费和投资组合的解析解.与默顿的结果相比,发现消费与财富尽管仍有线性关系,但其比例再也不是一个常数.投资于风险资产的比例也非固定常数,但投资于风险资产的总价值保持不变.     

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment in a stock market with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process

In this paper, we study the optimal investment and proportional reinsurance strategy when an insurance company wishes to maximize the expected exponential utility of the terminal wealth. It is assumed that the instantaneous rate of investment return follows an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Using stochastic control theory and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, explicit expressions for the optimal strategy and value function are derived not only for the compound Poisson risk model but also for the Brownian motion risk model. Further, we investigate the partially observable optimization problem, and also obtain explicit expressions for the optimal results.     

随机通胀风险下基于半鞅理论的最优投资策略

本文在半鞅理论框架下,构建包括可交易风险资产、不可交易风险资产和未定权益的金融投资模型。在考虑随机通胀风险和获取部分市场信息的情形下,研究投资经理人终端真实净财富指数效用最大化问题。运用滤波理论、半鞅和倒向随机微分方程(BSDE)理论,求解带有随机通胀风险的最优投资策略和价值过程精确解。数值分析结果发现,可交易风险资产最优投资额随着预期通胀率的增加而减少,投资价值呈先增后减态势。当通胀波动率无限接近可交易风险资产名义价格波动率时,通胀风险可完全对冲,投资人会不断追加在可交易风险资产的投资额,以期实现终端真实净财富期望指数效用最大化。研究结果为金融市场的投资决策提供更加科学的理论参考。     

商业银行多项资产的合理分布

随着我国金融市场的进一步改革和完善,商业银行必须加强风险意识、优化资产结构、进行科学的资产管理,追求最大的利润,这已经成为日益增长的社会需求,本运用科布-道格拉斯型的效用函数,对商业银行资产的合理分配建立了一个理论模型,并分别讨论了在确定情形下和不确定情形下国有商业银行应该如何进行资产的合理分布,以达到规避风险和利润最大,即达到效用最大的目的。     

Selecting an optimal portfolio of consumer loans by applying the state preference approach

Internal models like CreditMetrics and KMV, implemented by banks to manage credit risk and assess regulatory capital, are significant examples of how practitioners apply modern portfolio theory (MPT) to the management of bank loan-portfolios.From a theoretical perspective there are several reasons suggesting to be careful in extending MPT to the case of bank loan-portfolios selection in order to avoid misleading results. Specifically, loans' log-returns are non-normally distributed random variables, furthermore, decision-makers not necessarily perform a quadratic utility function. Because both of those reasons the traditional mean–variance approach is inadequate in building up optimal loan-portfolios. Such a conclusion is even more relevant if specific categories of loans are considered.In our paper we deal with the problem of selecting optimal portfolios of consumer-loans by developing a state preference model. It allows us not to explicitly consider the distributional properties of loans' log-returns. The model is a static one having the objective to select the loan-portfolio maximizing the expected utility of wealth allocated by the bank managers, subject to a number of constraints accounting for fundamental strategic choices implemented by the bank managers.Our results show that flexibility is the main characteristic of our model. In fact, adding constraints gives new optimal portfolios without reducing the expected utility of the decision maker. We will explain that such a result does not depend on constraints' misspecification but on the risk structure implied in the state preference approach.     

Asset allocation under loss aversion and minimum performance constraint in a DC pension plan with inflation risk

In this paper we investigate an optimal investment strategy for a defined-contribution (DC) pension plan member who is loss averse, pays close attention to inflation and longevity risks and requires a minimum performance at retirement. The member aims to maximize the expected S-shaped utility from the terminal wealth exceeding the minimum performance by investing her wealth in a financial market consisting of an indexed bond, a stock and a risk-free asset. We derive the optimal investment strategy in closed-form using the martingale approach. Our theoretical and numerical results reveal that the wealth proportion invested in each risky asset has a V-shaped pattern in the reference point level, while it always increases in the rising lifespan; with a positive correlation between salary and inflation risks, the presence of salary decreases the member’s investment in risky assets; the minimum performance helps to hedge the longevity risk by increasing her investment in risky assets.     

Optimal investment strategies and risk measures in defined contribution pension schemes

In this paper, we derive a formula for the optimal investment allocation (derived from a dynamic programming approach) in a defined contribution (DC) pension scheme whose fund is invested in n assets. We then analyse the particular case of n=2 (where we consider the presence in the market of a high-risk and a low-risk asset whose returns are correlated) and study the investment allocation and the downside risk faced by the retiring member of the DC scheme, where optimal investment strategies have been adopted. The behaviour of the optimal investment strategy is analysed when changing the disutility function and the correlation between the assets. Three different risk measures are considered in analysing the final net replacement ratios achieved by the member: the probability of failing the target, the mean shortfall and a value at risk (VaR) measure. The replacement ratios encompass the financial and annuitisation risks faced by the retiree. We consider the relationship between the risk aversion of the member and these different risk measures in order to understand better the choices confronting different categories of scheme member. We also consider the sensitivity of the results to the level of the correlation coefficient.     

Consumption–investment strategies with non-exponential discounting and logarithmic utility

In this paper, we revisit the consumption–investment problem with a general discount function and a logarithmic utility function in a non-Markovian framework. The coefficients in our model, including the interest rate, appreciation rate and volatility of the stock, are assumed to be adapted stochastic processes. Following Yong (2012a,b)’s method, we study an N-person differential game. We adopt a martingale method to solve an optimization problem of each player and characterize their optimal strategies and value functions in terms of the unique solutions of BSDEs. Then by taking limit, we show that a time-consistent equilibrium consumption–investment strategy of the original problem consists of a deterministic function and the ratio of the market price of risk to the volatility, and the corresponding equilibrium value function can be characterized by the unique solution of a family of BSDEs parameterized by a time variable.     

考虑可违约风险资产的风险敏感度投资决策问题

讨论了资产价格在宏观经济以及金融等因素影响下,含有可违约风险债券的连续时间风险敏感度投资决策问题.运用随机控制与随机分析理论,得到了最优投资决策存在的一个充分条件,并在一定条件下解得最优投资决策遵循一个关于因素水平以及债券违约概率的代数方程,对于数值计算有较好的实用性以及可操作性.     

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In this paper, we introduced a transaction costs function and established a portfolio model of risk management with second stochastic dominance constraints. This model does not need to make any assumptions about the utility function of the investors and the distribution of the risk assets income, and it can ensure that the choices of the risk-averse investor can be randomly better than a reference value, so it can avoid the high risk investment. We provide a smoothing penalty sample average approximation method for solving this optimization problem. We prove that the smoothing penalty problem is equivalent to the original problem. Numerical results prove that the model and the method are efficient.