scholarly journals OPTIMAL INVESTMENT AND CONSUMPTION WITH STOCHASTIC FACTOR AND DELAY

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. LI ◽  
H. MI

We analyse an optimal portfolio and consumption problem with stochastic factor and delay over a finite time horizon. The financial market includes a risk-free asset, a risky asset and a stochastic factor. The price process of the risky asset is modelled as a stochastic differential delay equation whose coefficients vary according to the stochastic factor; the drift also depends on its historical performance. Employing the stochastic dynamic programming approach, we establish the associated Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation. Then we solve the optimal investment and consumption strategies for the power utility function. We also consider a special case in which the price process of the stochastic factor degenerates into a Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model. Finally, the effects of the delay variable on the optimal strategies are discussed and some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the results.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiling Wu

This paper studies an investment-consumption problem under inflation. The consumption price level, the prices of the available assets, and the coefficient of the power utility are assumed to be sensitive to the states of underlying economy modulated by a continuous-time Markovian chain. The definition of admissible strategies and the verification theory corresponding to this stochastic control problem are presented. The analytical expression of the optimal investment strategy is derived. The existence, boundedness, and feasibility of the optimal consumption are proven. Finally, we analyze in detail by mathematical and numerical analysis how the risk aversion, the correlation coefficient between the inflation and the stock price, the inflation parameters, and the coefficient of utility affect the optimal investment and consumption strategy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chang ◽  
Xi-min Rong

This paper provides a Legendre transform method to deal with a class of investment and consumption problems, whose objective function is to maximize the expected discount utility of intermediate consumption and terminal wealth in the finite horizon. Assume that risk preference of the investor is described by hyperbolic absolute risk aversion (HARA) utility function, which includes power utility, exponential utility, and logarithm utility as special cases. The optimal investment and consumption strategy for HARA utility is explicitly obtained by applying dynamic programming principle and Legendre transform technique. Some special cases are also discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Yu Yuan ◽  
Hui Mi

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we study the robust optimal asset- problems for an ambiguity-averse investor, who does not have perfect information in the drift terms of the risky asset and liability processes. Two different kinds of objectives are considered: <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ (i) $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> Maximizing the minimal expected utility of the terminal wealth; <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ (ii) $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> Minimizing the maximal cumulative deviation. The ambiguity in both problems is described by a set of equivalent measures to the reference model. By the stochastic dynamic programming approach and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, we derive closed-form expressions for the value function and corresponding robust optimal investment strategy in each problem. Furthermore, some special cases are provided to investigate the effect of model uncertainty on the optimal investment strategy. Finally, the economic implication and parameter sensitivity are analyzed by some numerical examples. We also compare the robust optimal investment strategies in two different problems.</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chang ◽  
Xi-min Rong

We are concerned with an investment and consumption problem with stochastic interest rate and stochastic volatility, in which interest rate dynamic is described by the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) model and the volatility of the stock is driven by Heston’s stochastic volatility model. We apply stochastic optimal control theory to obtain the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for the value function and choose power utility and logarithm utility for our analysis. By using separate variable approach and variable change technique, we obtain the closed-form expressions of the optimal investment and consumption strategy. A numerical example is given to illustrate our results and to analyze the effect of market parameters on the optimal investment and consumption strategies.


2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450027 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. LIU

This paper is concerned with a finite-horizon optimal investment and consumption problem in continuous-time regime-switching models. The market consists of one bond and n ≥ 1 correlated stocks. An investor distributes his/her wealth among these assets and consumes at a non-negative rate. The market parameters (the interest rate, the appreciation rates and the volatilities of the stocks) and the utility functions are assumed to depend on a continuous-time Markov chain with a finite number of states. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted total utility of consumption and the expected discounted utility from terminal wealth. We solve the optimization problem by applying the stochastic control methods to regime-switching models. Under suitable conditions, we prove a verification theorem. We then apply the verification theorem to a power utility function and obtain, up to the solution of a system of coupled ordinary differential equations, an explicit solution of the value function and the optimal investment and consumption policies. We illustrate the impact of regime-switching on the optimal investment and consumption policies with numerical results and compare the results with the classical Merton problem that has only a single regime.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Chang ◽  
Xi-min Rong ◽  
Hui Zhao ◽  
Chu-bing Zhang

We consider an investment and consumption problem under the constant elasticity of variance (CEV) model, which is an extension of the original Merton’s problem. In the proposed model, stock price dynamics is assumed to follow a CEV model and our goal is to maximize the expected discounted utility of consumption and terminal wealth. Firstly, we apply dynamic programming principle to obtain the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation for the value function. Secondly, we choose power utility and logarithm utility for our analysis and apply variable change technique to obtain the closed-form solutions to the optimal investment and consumption strategies. Finally, we provide a numerical example to illustrate the effect of market parameters on the optimal investment and consumption strategies.


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