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.     

期货套期保值C VaR风险的敏感度分析

把条件风险价值应用于期货组合套期保值的风险管理,分析条件风险价值对期货部位的敏感性.在一般的概率分布下,分空头套期保值和多头套期保值两种情况,导出期货组合套期保值的条件风险价值关于套期比的一阶和二阶变化率,并研究其经济意义.投资者可以根据条件风险价值的敏感度增减期货头寸,把握好用于套期保值的期货量,帮助投资者管理套期保值风险.     

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.     

考虑结算风险的套期保值研究

期货市场的风险转移功能主要通过套期保值策略来实现,期货市场套期保值的关键问题是套期保值比率的确定。现有套期保值研究侧重于规避价格风险,忽略了期货市场另一个重要的风险因素-结算风险。本文通过建立考虑结算风险的期货套期保值决策模型,有效地平衡了套期保值过程中的价格风险与结算风险。具体特色一是将套保者的结算风险厌恶态度直接反映到套期比的计算中,体现了结算风险对套期保值决策的影响;二是在一定条件下,本模型的套期比趋近于最小方差套期比;三是利用ARMA时间序列方法预测期货与现货的价格走势,有效地反映了期货价格一阶平稳和季节性变化规律,使估计的套期比更加精确可靠。     

套期保值者策略性交易和市场多重均衡

金融市场中,投资者为规避风险经常采取套期保值策略,降低因资产价值波动带来的风险.从金融市场微观结构理论出发,通过分析知情交易者交易策略和做市商定价策略对套期保值者交易的影响,构建了套期保值者策略交易模型.从模型和数值分析得出,套期保值者的策略性交易使市场具有产生多重均衡的可能:一种为套期保值者数量多,流动性高的均衡;另一种为套期保值者数量少,流动性低的均衡.其形成过程为套期保值者进入(退出)市场会引起其他套期保值者进入(退出)市场,形成预期自我实现现象,导致不同流动性下的均衡.     

幂效用函数的无差别定价和套期保值

研究了多维扩散模型幂效用函数的无差别定价和套期保值.通过动态规划方法得到了未定权益的无差别定价和套期保值策略.并证明了无差别定价与风险厌恶指数无关的.     

改进的期望效用-熵模型在沪市股票选择中的应用研究

用Arrow-Pratt风险厌恶度来度量期望效用-熵平衡系数以改进风险型决策的期望效用-熵模型;根据改进的期望效用-熵模型以及期望效用准则,分别从上证50指数样本股中选取7只股票构造投资组合,进行比较.研究结果表明,用改进的期望效用-熵模型得到的股票组合效果更优.     

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.     

基于RCMRS的套期保值时变模型及实证研究

采用随机系数马尔科夫体制转换(RCMRS)模型对中国铜期货市场套期保值比进行估计.RCMRS模型跳出GARCH类模型基于新息描述的研究框架,视最优套期保值比为随机系数,直接估计出依赖于市场体制状态的时变套期保值比.市场体制状态在模型中被视为潜在变量,和其它参数一起通过最大化似然函数估计出来.由于考虑了不同市场体制状态对套期保值比的影响,RCMRS模型估计的最小方差套期保值比波动范围要小于GARCH类模型估计结果的波动范围.均值—方差效用函数不仅反映了风险,还同时反映了收益率及风险厌恶程度.在采用方差下降百分比测度套期保值效率的同时,另外采用均值—方差效用最大化原则对RCMRS模型与GARCH、VECM、VAR及OLS模型的套期保值表现进行了样本内和样本外比较.样本内比较支持RCMRS模型,而样本外比较则不利于RCMRS模型.     

需求风险下套期保值与市场进入分析

需求风险是企业面临的主要风险之一,对企业的生产经营和管理决策具有重要影响。本文考虑由多个风险厌恶企业构成的产品竞争市场,分析了需求风险下企业参与套期保值和市场进入的决策问题。文章首先通过Cournot博弈分析了套期保值对于规避需求风险的作用和意义;然后,探讨了企业参与套期保值和市场进入的决策过程,并给出了三种情形下的市场均衡结构;最后,通过数值实验对结论进行了验证。研究表明:套期保值提高了企业应对需求风险的能力,使企业获得更高的产量和收益;参与套期保值企业数量随着进入市场企业数量的增加而减少;当市场竞争程度或市场费用增加时,将会有更多的企业选择参与套期保值,而选择进入市场的企业会减少。     

The role of index bonds in universal currency hedging

This study examines the demand for index bonds and their role in hedging risky asset returns against currency risks in a complete market where equity is not hedged against inflation risk. Avellaneda's uncertain volatility model with non-constant coefficients to describe equity price variation, forward price variation, index bond price variation and rate of inflation, together with Merton's intertemporal portfolio choice model, are utilized to enable an investor to choose an optimal portfolio consisting of equity, nominal bonds and index bonds when the rate of inflation is uncertain. A hedge ratio is universal if investors in different countries hedge against currency risk to the same extent. Three universal hedge ratios (UHRs) are defined with respect to the investor's total demand for index bonds, hedging risky asset returns (i.e. equity and nominal bonds) against currency risk, which are not held for hedging purposes. These UHRs are hedge positions in foreign index bond portfolios, stated as a fraction of the national market portfolio. At equilibrium all the three UHRs are comparable to Black's corrected equilibrium hedging ratio. The Cameron-Martin-Girsanov theorem is applied to show that the Radon-Nikodym derivative given under a P -martingale, the investor's exchange rate (product of the two currencies) is a martingale. Therefore the investors can agree on a common hedging strategy to trade exchange rate risk irrespective of investor nationality. This makes the choice of the measurement currency irrelevant and the hedge ratio universal without affecting their values.     

Optimal Basket Liquidation for CARA Investors is Deterministic

Abstract

We consider the problem faced by an investor who must liquidate a given basket of assets over a finite time horizon. The investor's goal is to maximize the expected utility of the sales revenues over a class of adaptive strategies. We assume that the investor's utility has constant absolute risk aversion (CARA) and that the asset prices are given by a very general continuous-time, multiasset price impact model. Our main result is that (perhaps surprisingly) the investor does no worse if he narrows his search to deterministic strategies. In the case where the asset prices are given by an extension of the nonlinear price impact model of Almgren [(2003) Applied Mathematical Finance, 10, pp. 1–18], we characterize the unique optimal strategy via the solution of a Hamilton equation and the value function via a nonlinear partial differential equation with singular initial condition.     

Optimal portfolio‐consumption choice under stochastic inflation with nominal and indexed bonds

This research solves the intertemporal portfolio choice problems with and without interim consumption under stochastic inflation. We assume a one‐factor nominal interest rate and a one‐factor expected inflation rate, implying a two‐factor real interest rate in the economy. In contrast to other related research which adopts the one‐factor real interest rate model, the inflation‐indexed bond is not a redundant asset class even in a complete market. The infinitely risk‐averse investor would prefer to invest all her wealth in inflation‐indexed bonds maturing at the investment horizon. We also show that, with the two‐factor real interest rate model, the consumption‐wealth ratio is not determined by the real interest rate alone. The investor's consumption–wealth ratio is also affected by the nominal interest rate and expected inflation rate levels. The capital market is calibrated to U.S. stocks, bonds, and inflation data. The optimal weights show that aggressive investors hold more nominal bonds in order to earn the inflation risk premiums, while conservative investors concentrate on indexed bonds to hedge against the inflation risk. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exponential risk measure with application to UK asset allocation

In the paper the exponential risk measure of Damant and Satchell is used to formulate an investor's utility function and the properties of this function are investigated. The utility function is calibrated for a typical UK investor who would hold different proportions of equity. It is found that, for plausible parameter values, a typical UK investor will hold more equity under the assumption of non-normality of return if his utility function has the above formulation and not the standard mean-variance utility function. Furthermore, our utility function is consistent with positive skewness affection and kurtosis aversion. Some aggregate estimates of risk parameters are calculated for the typical UK investor. These do not seem well determined, raising issues of the roles of aggregation and wealth in this model.     

基于Heston随机波动率模型和风险偏好视角的资产负债管理

本文研究基于Heston随机波动率模型的资产负债管理问题。假设金融市场由一个无风险资产和一个风险资产构成,投资者的目标是最大化其终端财富的期望效用。应用随机控制方法,得到了该问题最优资产配置策略的解析表达式和相应值函数的解析解,通过数值算例分析了Heston模型主要参数以及债务对最优资产配置策略的影响。结果表明:配置到风险资产的比例对Heston模型中的参数非常敏感;为了对冲债务风险,负债的引入使得配置到风险资产的比例比无负债情形下的高;在风险厌恶系数变大时,无论投资者是否有负债,其投资到风险资产的比例则越来越低。     

需求中断下具有提前期的双渠道供应链的风险规避决策

讨论了由一个制造商和一个零售商所组成的双渠道供应链在需求中断下具有提前期的双渠道供应链的风险规避问题.给出了在需求中断前后的最优价格、最优提前期和最优生产决策.研究表明决策变化量是需求中断量的线性函数,在集中式下最优的决策和销售量与供应链的市场份额和需求中断有关,模型的最优生产体现了一定的稳健性.对于提前期来说,当市场份额较大时,最优提前期关于风险规避系数呈正比例,当市场份额较小时,最优提前期关于风险规避系数呈反比例.     

Optimal inventory and insurance decisions for a supply chain financing system with downside risk control

This research considers a supply chain financing system consisting of a capital‐constrained retailer, a supplier and a risk‐averse bank. The retailer may be subject to credit limit because of the bank's downside risk control, and hence, credit insurance should be needed to enhance his financing ability. This paper develops a mathematical optimization model by incorporating insurance policy into the well‐known newsvendor financing model. The optimal inventory and insurance decisions under different scenarios, that is, no insurance, insurance with symmetric information and insurance with asymmetric information, are derived. This work also discusses how the retailer's capital level, the bank's risk aversion, and the insurer's loading factor affect the optimal inventory and insurance decisions. The results show that the retailer will use credit insurance if he is sufficiently capital‐constrained or the insurer's risk loading factor is low enough. Moreover, credit insurance can bring Pareto improvement to the supply chain financing system, which verifies the prevalence of credit insurance in practice. Several numerical experiments are presented to examine the sensitivities of key parameters. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effects of risk aversion and decision preference on equilibriums in supply chain finance incorporating bank credit with credit guarantee

We constructed a Stackelberg game in a supply chain finance (SCF) system including a manufacturer, a capital‐constrained retailer, and a bank that provides loans on the basis of the manufacturer's credit guarantee. To emphasize the financial service providers' risks, we assumed that both the bank and the manufacturer are risk‐averse and formulated trade‐off objective functions for both of them as the convex combination of the expected profit and conditional value‐at‐risk. To explore the effects of the risk preferences and decision preferences on SCF equilibriums, we mathematically analyzed the optimal order quantities, wholesale prices, and interest rates under different risk preference scenarios and performed numerical analyses to quantify the effects. We found that incorporating bank credit with a credit guarantee can effectively balance the retailer's financing risk between the bank and the manufacturer through interest rate charging and wholesale pricing. Moreover, SCF equilibriums with risk aversion are highly affected by the degree of both the lender's and guarantor's risk tolerance in regard to the borrower's default probability and will be more conservative than those in the risk‐neutral cases that only maximize expected profit.     

Optimal investment strategy for annuity contracts under the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model

This paper focuses on the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model for studying the optimal investment strategy before and after retirement in a defined contribution pension plan where benefits are paid under the form of annuities; annuities are supposed to be guaranteed during a certain fixed period of time. Using Legendre transform, dual theory and variable change technique, we derive the explicit solutions for the power and exponential utility functions in two different periods (before and after retirement). Each solution contains a modified factor which reflects an investor’s decision to hedge the volatility risk. In order to investigate the influence of the modified factor on the optimal strategy, we analyze the property of the modified factor. The results show that the dynamic behavior of the modified factor for the power utility mainly depends on the time and the investor’s risk aversion coefficient, whereas it only depends on the time in the exponential case.