Optimal dividends in the Brownian motion risk model with interest

In this paper, we consider a Brownian motion risk model, and in addition, the surplus earns investment income at a constant force of interest. The objective is to find a dividend policy so as to maximize the expected discounted value of dividend payments. It is well known that optimality is achieved by using a barrier strategy for unrestricted dividend rate. However, ultimate ruin of the company is certain if a barrier strategy is applied. In many circumstances this is not desirable. This consideration leads us to impose a restriction on the dividend stream. We assume that dividends are paid to the shareholders according to admissible strategies whose dividend rate is bounded by a constant. Under this additional constraint, we show that the optimal dividend strategy is formed by a threshold strategy.     

On optimality of the barrier strategy for the classical risk model with interest

In this paper, we consider the optimal dividend problem for a classical risk model with a constant force of interest. For such a risk model, a sufficient condition under which a barrier strategy is the optimal strategy is presented for general claim distributions. When claim sizes are exponentially distributed, it is shown that the optimal dividend policy is a barrier strategy and the maximal dividend-value function is a concave function. Finally, some known results relating to the distribution of aggregate dividends before ruin are extended.     

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For a financial or insurance entity, the problem of finding the optimal dividend distribution strategy and optimal firm value function is a widely discussed topic. In the present paper, it is assumed that the firm faces two types of liquidity risks: a Brownian risk and a Poisson risk. The firm can control the time and amount of dividends paid out to shareholders. By sufficiently taking into account the safety of the company, bankruptcy is said to take place at time $t$ if the cash reserve of the firm runs below the linear barrier b+kt (not zero), see 1. We deal with the problem of maximizing the expected total discounted dividends paid out until bankruptcy. The optimal dividend return (or, firm value) function is identified as the classical solution of the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation where a second-order differential-integro equation is involved. By solving the corresponding HJB equation, the analytical solution of the optimal firm value function is obtained, the optimal dividend strategy is also characterized, which is of linear barrier type: at time t the firm keeps cash inside when the cash reserves level is less than a critical linear barrier and pays cash in excess of this linear barrier as dividends.     

On optimal periodic dividend strategies in the dual model with diffusion

The dual model with diffusion is appropriate for companies with continuous expenses that are offset by stochastic and irregular gains. Examples include research-based or commission-based companies. In this context, Bayraktar et al. (2013a) show that a dividend barrier strategy is optimal when dividend decisions are made continuously. In practice, however, companies that are capable of issuing dividends make dividend decisions on a periodic (rather than continuous) basis.In this paper, we consider a periodic dividend strategy with exponential inter-dividend-decision times and continuous monitoring of solvency. Assuming hyperexponential gains, we show that a periodic barrier dividend strategy is the periodic strategy that maximizes the expected present value of dividends paid until ruin. Interestingly, a ‘liquidation-at-first-opportunity’ strategy is optimal in some cases where the surplus process has a positive drift. Results are illustrated.     

Optimality of the barrier strategy in de Finetti’s dividend problem for spectrally negative Lévy processes: An alternative approach

The optimal dividend problem proposed in de Finetti [1] is to find the dividend-payment strategy that maximizes the expected discounted value of dividends which are paid to the shareholders until the company is ruined. Avram et al. [9] studied the case when the risk process is modelled by a general spectrally negative Lévy process and Loeffen [10] gave sufficient conditions under which the optimal strategy is of the barrier type. Recently Kyprianou et al. [11] strengthened the result of Loeffen [10] which established a larger class of Lévy processes for which the barrier strategy is optimal among all admissible ones. In this paper we use an analytical argument to re-investigate the optimality of barrier dividend strategies considered in the three recent papers.     

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??In this paper, we consider the optimal dividend problem in the spectrally positive L\'{e}vy model with regime switching. By an auxiliary optimal problem, the principle of dynamic programming and the fluctuation theory of L\'{e}vy processes, we show that optimal strategy is a modulated barrier strategy. The value function and the optimal dividend barrier are obtained by iteration.     

带利率和随机观测时间的布朗运动模型中最优分红策略

本文研究了带利率和随机观测时间的布朗运动模型中的最优分红问题.利用随机控制理论,获得了最优值函数相应的HJB方程,表明最优分红策略是障碍策略,并给出了最优值函数的显式表达式,推广了文献[19]的结果.     

Optimal dividend strategies in discrete risk model with capital injections

In this paper we consider a doubly discrete model used in Dickson and Waters (biASTIN Bulletin 1991; 21 :199–221) to approximate the Cramér–Lundberg model. The company controls the amount of dividends paid out to the shareholders as well as the capital injections which make the company never ruin in order to maximize the cumulative expected discounted dividends minus the penalized discounted capital injections. We show that the optimal value function is the unique solution of a discrete Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation by contraction mapping principle. Moreover, with capital injection, we reduce the optimal dividend strategy from band strategy in the discrete classical risk model without external capital injection into barrier strategy , which is consistent with the result in continuous time. We also give the equivalent condition when the optimal dividend barrier is equal to 0. Although there is no explicit solution to the value function and the optimal dividend barrier, we obtain the optimal dividend barrier and the approximating solution of the value function by Bellman's recursive algorithm. From the numerical calculations, we obtain some relevant economical insights. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Optimal dividend strategies for a risk process under force of interest

In the classical Cramér–Lundberg model in risk theory the problem of maximizing the expected cumulated discounted dividend payments until ruin is a widely discussed topic. In the most general case within that framework it is proved [Gerber, H.U., 1968. Entscheidungskriterien fuer den zusammengesetzten Poisson-prozess. Schweiz. Aktuarver. Mitt. 1, 185–227; Azcue, P., Muler, N., 2005. Optimal reinsurance and dividend distribution policies in the Cramér–Lundberg model. Math. Finance 15 (2) 261–308; Schmidli, H., 2008. Stochastic Control in Insurance. Springer] that the optimal dividend strategy is of band type. In the present paper we discuss this maximization problem in a generalized setting including a constant force of interest in the risk model. The value function is identified in the set of viscosity solutions of the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation and the optimal dividend strategy in this risk model with interest is derived, which in the general case is again of band type and for exponential claim sizes collapses to a barrier strategy. Finally, an example is constructed for Erlang(2)-claim sizes, in which the bands for the optimal strategy are explicitly calculated.     

Dividend maximization under consideration of the time value of ruin

In the Cramér-Lundberg model and its diffusion approximation, it is a classical problem to find the optimal dividend payment strategy that maximizes the expected value of the discounted dividend payments until ruin. One often raised disadvantage of this approach is the fact that such a strategy does not take the lifetime of the controlled process into account. In this paper we introduce a value function which considers both expected dividends and the time value of ruin. For both the diffusion model and the Cramér-Lundberg model with exponential claim sizes, the problem is solved and in either case the optimal strategy is identified, which for unbounded dividend intensity is a barrier strategy and for bounded dividend intensity is of threshold type.