Optimal investment-consumption and life insurance selection problem under inflation. A BSDE approach |
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Authors: | Calisto Guambe |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.;2. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. |
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Abstract: | We discuss an optimal investment, consumption and insurance problem of a wage earner under inflation. Assume a wage earner investing in a real money account and three asset prices, namely: a real zero-coupon bond, the inflation-linked real money account and a risky share described by jump-diffusion processes. Using the theory of quadratic-exponential backward stochastic differential equation (BSDE) with jumps approach, we derive the optimal strategy for the two typical utilities (exponential and power) and the value function is characterized as a solution of BSDE with jumps. Finally, we derive the explicit solutions for the optimal investment in both cases of exponential and power utility functions for a diffusion case. |
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Keywords: | Optimal investment consumption insurance jump-diffusion inflation index quadratic-exponential BSDE |
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