The solution to dynamic portfolio choice models can be formulated in terms of a value function by the Bellman principle of optimality, which reduces the multi-period optimal policy choice problem to a sequence of one-period maximization problems. For two adjacent periods, economists compute the...

Abstract Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) sometimes test interventions that aim to improve existing services targeted to a subset of individuals identified after randomization. Accordingly, the treatment could affect the composition of service recipients and the offered services. With such...

I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation's preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...

In a peer-to-peer complex environment, information is permanently diffused. Such an environment can be modeled as a graph, where there are flows of information. The interest of such modeling is that (1) one can describe the exchanges through time from an initial state of the network, (2) the...

In this paper, we present a stochastic optimal control model to optimize an insurance firm problem in the case where its cash-balance process is assumed to be described by a stochastic differential equation driven by Teugels martingales. Noticing that the insurance firm is able to control its...

We consider multivariate stationary processes (Xt) satisfying a stochastic recurrence equation of the form Xt=𝕄tXt−1+Qt, where (Qt) are i.i.d. random vectors and 𝕄t=Diag(b1+c1Mt,…,bd+cdMt) are i.i.d. diagonal matrices and (Mt) are i.i.d. random variables. We obtain a full...