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Optimal investment and consumption in a black-scholes market with lévy-driven stochastic coefficients

  • Warsaw School of Economics

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate an optimal investment and consumption problem for an investor who trades in a Black-Scholes financial market with stochastic coefficients driven by a non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We assume that an agent makes investment and consumption decisions based on a power utility function. By applying the usual separation method in the variables, we are faced with the problem of solving a nonlinear (semilinear) first-order partial integro-differential equation. A candidate solution is derived via the Feynman-Kac representation. By using the properties of an operator defined in a suitable function space, we prove uniqueness and smoothness of the solution. Optimality is verified by applying a classical verification theorem.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)879-908
Number of pages30
JournalAnnals of Applied Probability
Volume18
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2008

Keywords

  • Banach fixed point theorem
  • Feynman-kac formula
  • Hamilton-jacobi-bellman equation
  • Levy process
  • Optimal investment and consumption
  • Ornstein-uhlenbeck process
  • Stochastic volatility model
  • Subordinator
  • Utility function

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