Asymptotic analysis for target asset portfolio allocation with small transaction costs

In this paper we discuss the asset allocation in the presence of small proportional transaction costs. The objective is to keep the asset portfolio close to a target portfolio and at the same time to reduce the trading cost in doing so. We derive the variational inequality and prove a verification theorem. Furthermore, we apply the second order asymptotic expansion method to characterize explicitly the optimal no transaction region when the transaction cost is small and show that the boundary points are asymmetric in relation to the target portfolio position, in contrast to the symmetric relation when only the first order asymptotic expansion method is used, and the leading order is a constant proportion of the cubic root of the small transaction cost. In addition, we use the asymptotic results for the boundary points and obtain an expansion for the value function. The results are illustrated in the numerical example.     

Martingale property of exponential semimartingales: a note on explicit conditions and applications to asset price and Libor models

We give a collection of explicit sufficient conditions for the true martingale property of a wide class of exponentials of semimartingales. We express the conditions in terms of semimartingale characteristics. This turns out to be very convenient in financial modelling in general. Especially it allows us to carefully discuss the question of well-definedness of semimartingale Libor models, whose construction crucially relies on a sequence of measure changes.     

模糊数学在环境污染责任保险费率厘定中的运用

环境污染责任保险因开展经验及历史数据不足致费率难以合理厘定,引入模糊信息粒及综合评价理论,相对传统方法,更能实现费率厘定的公平合理,保障各方利益.本文以化学原料及化学制品制造业为研究对象,首先运用模糊信息粒理论处理历史数据,克服数据模糊不确定性,得出第三者赔偿额的模糊信息粒X;其次运用传统精算定价方法得出行业基准费率的...     

基于信用风险修正的多阶段银行资产组合优化模型

从资产组合管理角度出发,用信用风险修正的方法对企业信用等级阈值进行修正,同时考虑商业银行持续经营的特点,将修正后的信用风险引入到多阶段的模型当中去,建立一个基于信用风险修正的多阶段银行资产组合优化模型.针对该模型的特点,给出了把Monte Carlo模拟的动态算法和改进粒子群的多阶段算法相结合求解方法.数值试验表明所建...     

均值-ES框架下带交易费用的资本资产市场中均衡价格的存在性与确定

探讨具有有限多个风险资产和一个无风险资产、有多个投资者参与的资本资产市场中非负均衡价格的存在性条件与确定问题,从以下角度改进了现有结果:采用期望损失(Expected shortfall,简称ES)作为风险度量,保证了均值-ES框架下所得结果与期望效用极大化原理结果的一致性;对证券收益的联合分布不做假设;考虑了比例交易费用对价格的影响,所得结果更贴近现实的金融市场;不仅给出了非负均衡价格存在唯一的充要条件,而且导出了其具体表达式;在对比分析其与现有结果异同的同时,还讨论了所给充要条件与定价公式的应用与经济解释.     

Multivariate asset‐pricing model based on subordinated stable processes

In this paper, we consider a multidimensional time‐changed stochastic process in the context of asset‐pricing modeling. The proposed model is constructed from stable processes, and its construction is based on two popular concepts: multivariate subordination and Lévy copulas. From a theoretical point of view, our main result is Theorem 1, which yields a simulation method from the considered class of processes. Our empirical study shows that the model represents the correlation between asset returns quite well. Moreover, we provide some evidence that this model is more appropriate for describing stock prices than classical time‐changed Brownian motion, at least if the cumulative amount of transactions is used for a stochastic time change.     

Optimal control problem for an insurance surplus model with debt liability

For an insurance company with a debt liability, they could make some management actions, such as reinsurance, paying dividends, and capital injection, to balance the profitability and financial bankruptcy. Our objective is to determine risk retention rate, dividend, and capital injection strategy so as to maximize the expected discounted dividends minus the discounted cost of capital injection until the time of ruin. We assume that the dividend payments and capital injection should occur with both fixed and proportional costs. We obtain explicit expressions of the optimal value functions as well as the corresponding optimal joint strategies by routine procedures in a comprehensive basic model using a new technique to solve the related equations. Our results show that whether recapitalizing is profitable or not depends on the costs of capital raising and that the firm injects capital only when the reserves are zero and recapitalizes to the optimal reserves level if the cost of external capital is low. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Discrete time mean-variance analysis with singular second moment matrixes and an exogenous liability

We apply the dynamic programming methods to compute the analytical solution of the dynamic mean-variance optimization problem affected by an exogenous liability in a multi-periods market model with singular second moment matrixes of the return vector of assets. We use orthogonai transformations to overcome the difficulty produced by those singular matrixes, and the analytical form of the efficient frontier is obtained. As an application, the explicit form of the optimal mean-variance hedging strategy is also obtained for our model.     

Optimal Selling of an Asset with Jumps Under Incomplete Information

ABSTRACT

We study the optimal liquidation strategy of an asset with price process satisfying a jump diffusion model with unknown jump intensity. It is assumed that the intensity takes one of two given values, and we have an initial estimate for the probability of both of them. As time goes by, by observing the price fluctuations, we can thus update our beliefs about the probabilities for the intensity distribution. We formulate an optimal stopping problem describing the optimal liquidation problem. It is shown that the optimal strategy is to liquidate the first time the point process falls below (goes above) a certain time-dependent boundary.