Series:
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
Monday, December 4, 2017 - 14:00
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location:
Skiles 005
Organizer:
In the real world, the historical performance of a stock may have
impacts on its dynamics and this suggests us to consider models with
delays. We consider a portfolio optimization problem of Merton’s type
in which the risky asset is described by a stochastic delay model. We
derive the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, which turns out to
be a nonlinear degenerate partial differential equation of the
elliptic type. Despite the challenge caused by the nonlinearity and
the degeneration, we establish the existence result and the
verification results.