This article is concerned with a class of control systems with Markovian switching, in which an It5 formula for Markov-modulated processes is derived. Moreover, an optimal control law satisfying the generalized Hamilt...This article is concerned with a class of control systems with Markovian switching, in which an It5 formula for Markov-modulated processes is derived. Moreover, an optimal control law satisfying the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation with Markovian switching is characterized. Then, through the generalized HJB equation, we study an optimal consumption and portfolio problem with the financial markets of Markovian switching and inflation. Thus, we deduce the optimal policies and show that a modified Mutual Fund Theorem consisting of three funds holds. Finally, for the CRRA utility function, we explicitly give the optimal consumption and portfolio policies. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the obtained results.展开更多
超高速磨削可大幅度提高磨削效率，减少砂轮磨损，提高零件加工质量，是一项具有强大生命力和广阔前景的技术。轴承技术是超高速大功率磨削主轴系统的关键技术。本文介绍了一种适于超高速大功率工况的新型液体动静压混合轴承 (简称 SS－...超高速磨削可大幅度提高磨削效率，减少砂轮磨损，提高零件加工质量，是一项具有强大生命力和广阔前景的技术。轴承技术是超高速大功率磨削主轴系统的关键技术。本文介绍了一种适于超高速大功率工况的新型液体动静压混合轴承 (简称 SS－ HP HJB)，详细介绍了 SS－ HP HJB的结构形式、理论分析及数值计算。实验结果与理论分析结果很好地吻合，二者共同表明， SS－ HP HJB具有良好的稳态性能。展开更多
This paper considers the optimal investment and premium control problem in a diffusion approxi- mation to a non-homogeneous compound Poisson process. In the nonlinear diffusion model, it is assumed that there is an un...This paper considers the optimal investment and premium control problem in a diffusion approxi- mation to a non-homogeneous compound Poisson process. In the nonlinear diffusion model, it is assumed that there is an unspecified monotone function describing the relationship between the safety loading of premium and the time-varying claim arrival rate. Hence, in addition to the investment control, the premium rate can be served as a control variable in the optimization problem. Specifically, the problem is investigated in two cases： （i） maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth, and （ii） minimizing the probability of ruin respectively. In both cases, some properties of the value functions are derived, and closed-form expressions for the optimal policies and the value functions are obtained. The results show that the optimal investment policy and the optimal premium control policy are dependent on each other. Most interestingly, as an example, we show that the nonlinear diffusion model reduces to a diffusion model with a quadratic drift coefficient when the function associated with the premium rate and the claim arrival rate takes a special form. This example shows that the model of study represents a class of nonlinear stochastic control risk model.展开更多
This paper studies the optimization problem with both investment and proportional reinsurance control under the assumption that the surplus process of an insurance entity is represented by a pure diffusion process.The...This paper studies the optimization problem with both investment and proportional reinsurance control under the assumption that the surplus process of an insurance entity is represented by a pure diffusion process.The company can buy proportional reinsurance and invest its surplus into a Black-Scholes risky asset and a risk free asset without restrictions.The authors define absolute ruin as that the liminf of the surplus process is negative infinity and propose absolute ruin minimization as the optimization scenario.Applying the HJB method the authors obtain explicit expressions for the minimal absolute ruin function and the associated optimal investment strategy.The authors find that the minimal absolute ruin function here is convex,but not S-shaped investigated by Luo and Taksar(2011).And finally,from behavioral finance point of view,the authors come to the conclusion:It is the restrictions on investment that results in the kink of minimal absolute ruin function.展开更多
In the dual risk model, we consider the optimal dividend and capital injection problem, which involves a random time horizon and a ruin penalty. Both fixed and proportional costs from the transactions of capital injec...In the dual risk model, we consider the optimal dividend and capital injection problem, which involves a random time horizon and a ruin penalty. Both fixed and proportional costs from the transactions of capital injection are considered. The objective is to maximize the total value of the expected discounted dividends, and the penalized discounted both capital injections and ruin penalty during the horizon, which is described by the minimum of the time of ruin and an exponential random variable. The explicit solutions for optimal strategy and value function are obtained, when the income jumps follow a hyper-exponential distribution.Besides, some numerical examples are presented to illustrate our results.展开更多
This paper is concerned with numerical simulations for the G- Brownian motion （defined by S. Peng in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 2007, 541-567）. By the definition of the G-normal distribution, we first sho...This paper is concerned with numerical simulations for the G- Brownian motion （defined by S. Peng in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 2007, 541-567）. By the definition of the G-normal distribution, we first show that the G-Brownian motions can be simulated by solving a certain kind of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equations. Then, some finite difference methods are designed for the corresponding HJB equations. Numerical simulation results of the G-normal distribution, the G-Brownian motion, and the corresponding quadratic variation process are provided, which characterize basic properties of the G-Brownian motion. We believe that the algorithms in this work serve as a fundamental tool for future studies, e.g., for solving stochastic differential equations （SDEs）/stochastic partial differential equations （SPDEs） driven by the G-Brownian motions.展开更多
The article introduces proportional reinsurance contracts under the mean-variance criterion,studying the time-consistence investment portfolio problem considering the interests of both insurance companies and reinsura...The article introduces proportional reinsurance contracts under the mean-variance criterion,studying the time-consistence investment portfolio problem considering the interests of both insurance companies and reinsurance companies.The insurance claims process follows a jump-diffusion model,assuming that the risk asset prices of insurance companies and reinsurance companies follow CEV models different from each other.In the framework of game theory,the time-consistent equilibrium reinsurance strategy is obtained by solving the extended HJB equation analytically.Finally,numerical examples are used to illustrate the impact of model parameters on equilibrium strategies and provide economic explanations.The results indicate that the decision weights of insurance companies and reinsurance companies do have a significant impact on both the reinsurance ratio and the equilibrium reinsurance strategy.展开更多
This paper considers a model of an insurance company which is allowed to invest a risky asset and to purchase proportional reinsurance. The objective is to find the policy which maximizes the expected total discounted...This paper considers a model of an insurance company which is allowed to invest a risky asset and to purchase proportional reinsurance. The objective is to find the policy which maximizes the expected total discounted dividend pay-out until the time of bankruptcy and the terminal value of the company under liquidity constraint. We find the solution of this problem via solving the problem with zero terminal value. We also analyze the influence of terminal value on the optimal policy.展开更多
A pricing model for a corporate bond with rating migration risk is established in this article. With the technology of utility-indifference valuation under the Markov-modulated framework, we analyze the price of a mul...A pricing model for a corporate bond with rating migration risk is established in this article. With the technology of utility-indifference valuation under the Markov-modulated framework, we analyze the price of a multi-rating bond and obtain closed formulae in a three-rating case. Based on the pricing formulae, the impacts of the parameters on the indifference price are analyzed and some reasonable financial explanations are provided as well.展开更多
We investigate an optimal portfolio and consumption choice problem with a defaultable security. Under the goal of maximizing the expected discounted utility of the average past consumption, a dynamic programming princ...We investigate an optimal portfolio and consumption choice problem with a defaultable security. Under the goal of maximizing the expected discounted utility of the average past consumption, a dynamic programming principle is applied to derive a pair of second-order parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman （HJB） equations with gradient constraints. We explore these HJB equations by a viscosity solution approach and characterize the post-default and pre-default value functions as a unique pair of constrained viscosity solutions to the HJB equations.展开更多
Certain Merton type consumption−investment problems under partial information are reduced to the ones of full information and within the framework of a complete market model.Then,specializing to conditionally log−Gaus...Certain Merton type consumption−investment problems under partial information are reduced to the ones of full information and within the framework of a complete market model.Then,specializing to conditionally log−Gaussian diffusion models,concrete analysis about the optimal values and optimal strategies is performed by using analytical tools like Feynman−Kac formula,or HJB equations.The explicit solutions to the related forward-backward equations are also given.展开更多
This paper discusses mean-field backward stochastic differentiM equations （mean-field BS- DEs） with jumps and a new type of controlled mean-field BSDEs with jumps, namely mean-field BSDEs with jumps strongly coupled...This paper discusses mean-field backward stochastic differentiM equations （mean-field BS- DEs） with jumps and a new type of controlled mean-field BSDEs with jumps, namely mean-field BSDEs with jumps strongly coupled with the value function of the associated control problem. The authors first prove the existence and the uniqueness as well as a comparison theorem for the above two types of BSDEs. For this the authors use an approximation method. Then, with the help of the notion of stochastic backward semigroups introduced by Peng in 1997, the authors get the dynamic programming principle （DPP） for the value functions. Furthermore, the authors prove that the value function is a viscosity solution of the associated nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） integro-partial differential equation, which is unique in an adequate space of continuous functions introduced by Barles, et al. in 1997.展开更多
In this article, the authors consider the optimal portfolio on tracking the expected wealth process with liquidity constraints. The constrained optimal portfolio is first formulated as minimizing the cumulate variance...In this article, the authors consider the optimal portfolio on tracking the expected wealth process with liquidity constraints. The constrained optimal portfolio is first formulated as minimizing the cumulate variance between the wealth process and the expected wealth process. Then, the dynamic programming methodology is applied to reduce the whole problem to solving the Hamilton-Jacobi--Bellman equation coupled with the liquidity constraint, and the method of Lagrange multiplier is applied to handle the constraint. Finally, a numerical method is proposed to solve the constrained HJB equation and the constrained optimal strategy. Especially, the explicit solution to this optimal problem is derived when there is no liquidity constraint.展开更多
Under the Knightian uncertainty,this paper constructs the optimal principal(he)-agent(she)contract model based on the principal’s expected profit and the agent’s expected utility function by using the sublinear expe...Under the Knightian uncertainty,this paper constructs the optimal principal(he)-agent(she)contract model based on the principal’s expected profit and the agent’s expected utility function by using the sublinear expectation theory.The output process in the model is provided by the agent’s continuous efforts and the principal cannot directly observe the agent’s efforts.In the process of work,risk-averse agent will have the opportunity to make external choices.In order to promote the agent’s continuous efforts,the principal will continuously provide the agents with consumption according to the observable output process after the probation period.In this paper,the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation is deduced by using the optimality principle under sublinear expectation while the smoothness viscosity condition of the principal-agent optimal contract is given.Moreover,the continuation value of the agent is taken as the state variable to characterize the optimal expected profit of the principal,the agent’s effort and the consumption level under different degrees of Knightian uncertainty.Finally,the behavioral economics is used to analyze the simulation results.The research findings are that the increasing Knightian uncertainty incurs the decline of the principal’s maximum profit;within the probation period,the increasing Knightian uncertainty leads to the shortening of probation period and makes the agent give higher effort when she faces the outside option;what’s more,after the smooth completion of the probation period for the agent,the agent’s consumption level will rise and her effort level will drop as Knightian uncertainty increasing.展开更多
This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple ris...This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple risky assets. This paper obtains the optimal investment policy using the stochastic linear quadratic （LQ） control theory with no-shorting constraint. Then the efficient strategy （optimal investment strategy） and efficient frontier are derived explicitly by a verification theorem with the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(71171003)Anhui Natural Science Foundation(10040606003)Anhui Natural Science Foundation of Universities(KJ2012B019,KJ2013B023)
文摘This article is concerned with a class of control systems with Markovian switching, in which an It5 formula for Markov-modulated processes is derived. Moreover, an optimal control law satisfying the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation with Markovian switching is characterized. Then, through the generalized HJB equation, we study an optimal consumption and portfolio problem with the financial markets of Markovian switching and inflation. Thus, we deduce the optimal policies and show that a modified Mutual Fund Theorem consisting of three funds holds. Finally, for the CRRA utility function, we explicitly give the optimal consumption and portfolio policies. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the obtained results.
文摘超高速磨削可大幅度提高磨削效率，减少砂轮磨损，提高零件加工质量，是一项具有强大生命力和广阔前景的技术。轴承技术是超高速大功率磨削主轴系统的关键技术。本文介绍了一种适于超高速大功率工况的新型液体动静压混合轴承 (简称 SS－ HP HJB)，详细介绍了 SS－ HP HJB的结构形式、理论分析及数值计算。实验结果与理论分析结果很好地吻合，二者共同表明， SS－ HP HJB具有良好的稳态性能。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11571388)the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities(15JJD790036)+2 种基金the 111 Project(B17050)supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(Project No.HKU17329216)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11571198,11701319)
文摘This paper considers the optimal investment and premium control problem in a diffusion approxi- mation to a non-homogeneous compound Poisson process. In the nonlinear diffusion model, it is assumed that there is an unspecified monotone function describing the relationship between the safety loading of premium and the time-varying claim arrival rate. Hence, in addition to the investment control, the premium rate can be served as a control variable in the optimization problem. Specifically, the problem is investigated in two cases： （i） maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth, and （ii） minimizing the probability of ruin respectively. In both cases, some properties of the value functions are derived, and closed-form expressions for the optimal policies and the value functions are obtained. The results show that the optimal investment policy and the optimal premium control policy are dependent on each other. Most interestingly, as an example, we show that the nonlinear diffusion model reduces to a diffusion model with a quadratic drift coefficient when the function associated with the premium rate and the claim arrival rate takes a special form. This example shows that the model of study represents a class of nonlinear stochastic control risk model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China under Grant No.11401556the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11471304 and 11171321
文摘This paper studies the optimization problem with both investment and proportional reinsurance control under the assumption that the surplus process of an insurance entity is represented by a pure diffusion process.The company can buy proportional reinsurance and invest its surplus into a Black-Scholes risky asset and a risk free asset without restrictions.The authors define absolute ruin as that the liminf of the surplus process is negative infinity and propose absolute ruin minimization as the optimization scenario.Applying the HJB method the authors obtain explicit expressions for the minimal absolute ruin function and the associated optimal investment strategy.The authors find that the minimal absolute ruin function here is convex,but not S-shaped investigated by Luo and Taksar(2011).And finally,from behavioral finance point of view,the authors come to the conclusion:It is the restrictions on investment that results in the kink of minimal absolute ruin function.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11231005)Promotive research fund for excellent young and middle-aged scientists of Shandong Province(BS2014SF006)the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(15KJB110009)
文摘In the dual risk model, we consider the optimal dividend and capital injection problem, which involves a random time horizon and a ruin penalty. Both fixed and proportional costs from the transactions of capital injection are considered. The objective is to maximize the total value of the expected discounted dividends, and the penalized discounted both capital injections and ruin penalty during the horizon, which is described by the minimum of the time of ruin and an exponential random variable. The explicit solutions for optimal strategy and value function are obtained, when the income jumps follow a hyper-exponential distribution.Besides, some numerical examples are presented to illustrate our results.
基金Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the referees for their valuable comments, which improved the paper a lot. This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China （Grant Nos. 11171189, 11571206）.
文摘This paper is concerned with numerical simulations for the G- Brownian motion （defined by S. Peng in Stochastic Analysis and Applications, 2007, 541-567）. By the definition of the G-normal distribution, we first show that the G-Brownian motions can be simulated by solving a certain kind of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equations. Then, some finite difference methods are designed for the corresponding HJB equations. Numerical simulation results of the G-normal distribution, the G-Brownian motion, and the corresponding quadratic variation process are provided, which characterize basic properties of the G-Brownian motion. We believe that the algorithms in this work serve as a fundamental tool for future studies, e.g., for solving stochastic differential equations （SDEs）/stochastic partial differential equations （SPDEs） driven by the G-Brownian motions.
文摘The article introduces proportional reinsurance contracts under the mean-variance criterion,studying the time-consistence investment portfolio problem considering the interests of both insurance companies and reinsurance companies.The insurance claims process follows a jump-diffusion model,assuming that the risk asset prices of insurance companies and reinsurance companies follow CEV models different from each other.In the framework of game theory,the time-consistent equilibrium reinsurance strategy is obtained by solving the extended HJB equation analytically.Finally,numerical examples are used to illustrate the impact of model parameters on equilibrium strategies and provide economic explanations.The results indicate that the decision weights of insurance companies and reinsurance companies do have a significant impact on both the reinsurance ratio and the equilibrium reinsurance strategy.
基金Supported by Doctor Foundation of Xinjiang Universitythe National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘This paper considers a model of an insurance company which is allowed to invest a risky asset and to purchase proportional reinsurance. The objective is to find the policy which maximizes the expected total discounted dividend pay-out until the time of bankruptcy and the terminal value of the company under liquidity constraint. We find the solution of this problem via solving the problem with zero terminal value. We also analyze the influence of terminal value on the optimal policy.
基金Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 11271287）.
文摘A pricing model for a corporate bond with rating migration risk is established in this article. With the technology of utility-indifference valuation under the Markov-modulated framework, we analyze the price of a multi-rating bond and obtain closed formulae in a three-rating case. Based on the pricing formulae, the impacts of the parameters on the indifference price are analyzed and some reasonable financial explanations are provided as well.
文摘We investigate an optimal portfolio and consumption choice problem with a defaultable security. Under the goal of maximizing the expected discounted utility of the average past consumption, a dynamic programming principle is applied to derive a pair of second-order parabolic Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman （HJB） equations with gradient constraints. We explore these HJB equations by a viscosity solution approach and characterize the post-default and pre-default value functions as a unique pair of constrained viscosity solutions to the HJB equations.
文摘Certain Merton type consumption−investment problems under partial information are reduced to the ones of full information and within the framework of a complete market model.Then,specializing to conditionally log−Gaussian diffusion models,concrete analysis about the optimal values and optimal strategies is performed by using analytical tools like Feynman−Kac formula,or HJB equations.The explicit solutions to the related forward-backward equations are also given.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11171187,11222110Shandong Province under Grant No.JQ201202+1 种基金Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No.NCET-12-0331111 Project under Grant No.B12023
文摘This paper discusses mean-field backward stochastic differentiM equations （mean-field BS- DEs） with jumps and a new type of controlled mean-field BSDEs with jumps, namely mean-field BSDEs with jumps strongly coupled with the value function of the associated control problem. The authors first prove the existence and the uniqueness as well as a comparison theorem for the above two types of BSDEs. For this the authors use an approximation method. Then, with the help of the notion of stochastic backward semigroups introduced by Peng in 1997, the authors get the dynamic programming principle （DPP） for the value functions. Furthermore, the authors prove that the value function is a viscosity solution of the associated nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） integro-partial differential equation, which is unique in an adequate space of continuous functions introduced by Barles, et al. in 1997.
基金Supported in part by the National Natural ScienceFoundation of China (10671149)the Ministry of Education of China (NCET-04-0667)
文摘In this article, the authors consider the optimal portfolio on tracking the expected wealth process with liquidity constraints. The constrained optimal portfolio is first formulated as minimizing the cumulate variance between the wealth process and the expected wealth process. Then, the dynamic programming methodology is applied to reduce the whole problem to solving the Hamilton-Jacobi--Bellman equation coupled with the liquidity constraint, and the method of Lagrange multiplier is applied to handle the constraint. Finally, a numerical method is proposed to solve the constrained HJB equation and the constrained optimal strategy. Especially, the explicit solution to this optimal problem is derived when there is no liquidity constraint.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71571001).
文摘Under the Knightian uncertainty,this paper constructs the optimal principal(he)-agent(she)contract model based on the principal’s expected profit and the agent’s expected utility function by using the sublinear expectation theory.The output process in the model is provided by the agent’s continuous efforts and the principal cannot directly observe the agent’s efforts.In the process of work,risk-averse agent will have the opportunity to make external choices.In order to promote the agent’s continuous efforts,the principal will continuously provide the agents with consumption according to the observable output process after the probation period.In this paper,the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation is deduced by using the optimality principle under sublinear expectation while the smoothness viscosity condition of the principal-agent optimal contract is given.Moreover,the continuation value of the agent is taken as the state variable to characterize the optimal expected profit of the principal,the agent’s effort and the consumption level under different degrees of Knightian uncertainty.Finally,the behavioral economics is used to analyze the simulation results.The research findings are that the increasing Knightian uncertainty incurs the decline of the principal’s maximum profit;within the probation period,the increasing Knightian uncertainty leads to the shortening of probation period and makes the agent give higher effort when she faces the outside option;what’s more,after the smooth completion of the probation period for the agent,the agent’s consumption level will rise and her effort level will drop as Knightian uncertainty increasing.
基金This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 10871102 and Speaialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education under Grant No. 20090031110001.
文摘This paper considers the optimal investment strategy for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The risk process is a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and multiple risky assets. This paper obtains the optimal investment policy using the stochastic linear quadratic （LQ） control theory with no-shorting constraint. Then the efficient strategy （optimal investment strategy） and efficient frontier are derived explicitly by a verification theorem with the viscosity solution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman （HJB） equation.
