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arXiv2020

Time-consistent investment and consumption strategies under a general discount function

The paper [12] examines a concept of equilibrium policies instead of optimal controls in stochastic optimization to analyze a mean-variance portfolio selection problem. We follow the same approach in order to investigate the Merton portfolio management problem in the context of non-exponential discounting, a context that give rise to time-inconsistency of the decision maker. Equilibrium policies are characterized in this context by means of a variational method which leads to a stochastic system that consists of a flow of forward-backward stochastic differential equations and an equilibrium condition. An explicit representation of the equilibrium policies is provided for the special cases of power, logarithmic and exponential utility functions.

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arXiv2018

On the Solution of Locally Lipschitz BSDE Associated to Jump Markov Process

In this study, we consider a class of backward SDE driven by jump Markov process. An existence and uniqueness result to this kind of equations is obtained in a locally Lipschitz case. We essentially approximate the initial problem by constructing a convenient sequence of globally Lipschitz BSDEs having the existence and the uniqueness propriety. Then, we show, by passing to the limits, the existence, and uniqueness of a solution to the initial problem. After that, a stability theorem is also proved in the local Lipschitz setting. Applying the aforementioned result, we give an application to European option pricing with constraint.

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