On the first-passage time of integrated Brownian motion.
On the hedging of American options in discrete time markets with proportional transaction costs.
On the Novikov-Shiryaev optimal stopping problems in continuous time.
On the principle of smooth fit for killed diffusions.
On valuation of derivative securities: A Lie group analytical approach
This paper proposes a Lie group analytical approach to tackle the problem of pricing derivative securities. By exploiting the infinitesimal symmetries of the Boundary Value Problem (BVP) satisfied by the price of a derivative security, our method provides an effective algorithm for obtaining its explicit solution.
On Wald's equation. Discrete time case
Optimal choice problem with backward solicitation
Optimal closing of a pair trade with a model containing jumps
A pair trade is a portfolio consisting of a long position in one asset and a short position in another, and it is a widely used investment strategy in the financial industry. Recently, Ekström, Lindberg, and Tysk studied the problem of optimally closing a pair trading strategy when the difference of the two assets is modelled by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In the present work the model is generalized to also include jumps. More precisely, we assume that the difference between the assets is an...
Optimal control by means switchings
Optimal selection of the maximum of a discountable sequence of independent random variables
Optimal sequential multiple hypothesis testing in presence of control variables
Suppose that at any stage of a statistical experiment a control variable that affects the distribution of the observed data at this stage can be used. The distribution of depends on some unknown parameter , and we consider the problem of testing multiple hypotheses , , allowing the data to be controlled by , in the following sequential context. The experiment starts with assigning a value to the control variable and observing as a response. After some analysis, another value for...
Optimal sequential multiple hypothesis tests
This work deals with a general problem of testing multiple hypotheses about the distribution of a discrete-time stochastic process. Both the Bayesian and the conditional settings are considered. The structure of optimal sequential tests is characterized.
Optimal sequential procedures with Bayes decision rules
In this article, a general problem of sequential statistical inference for general discrete-time stochastic processes is considered. The problem is to minimize an average sample number given that Bayesian risk due to incorrect decision does not exceed some given bound. We characterize the form of optimal sequential stopping rules in this problem. In particular, we have a characterization of the form of optimal sequential decision procedures when the Bayesian risk includes both the loss due to incorrect...
Optimal stopping and impulsive control of one-dimensional diffusion processes
Optimal stopping for Markov Processes
In questa nota presentiamo dei nuovi risultati sul problema di tempo d’arresto ottimale per processi di Markov con tempo discreto.
Optimal stopping of a 2-vector risk process
The following problem in risk theory is considered. An insurance company, endowed with an initial capital a > 0, receives insurance premiums and pays out successive claims from two kind of risks. The losses occur according to a marked point process. At any time the company may broaden or narrow down the offer, which entails the change of the parameters of the underlying risk process. These changes concern the rate of income, the intensity of the renewal process and the distribution of claims....
Optimal stopping of a random length sequence of maxima over a random barrier
Optimal stopping of a risk process
Optimal stopping time problems for a risk process where the number N(t) of losses up to time t is a general renewal process and the sequence of ’s represents successive losses are studied. N(t) and ’s are independent. Our goal is to maximize the expected return before the ruin time. The main results are closely related to those obtained by Boshuizen and Gouweleew [2].
Optimal stopping of a sequence of maxima between random and fixed barriers
Optimal stopping of a sequence of maxima over an unobservable sequence of maxima