We consider the problem faced by an investor who must liquidate a given basket of assets over a finite time horizon. The investor's goal is to maximize the expected utility of the sales revenues over a class of adaptive strategies. We assume that the investor's utility has constant absolute risk...

We consider the problem of hedging a European interest rate contingent claim with a portfolio of zero-coupon bonds and show that an HJM type Markovian model driven by an infinite number of sources of randomness does not have some of the shortcomings found in the classical finite-factor models....

This paper is concerned with the axiomatic foundation and explicit construction of a general class of optimality criteria that can be used for investment problems with multiple time horizons, or when the time horizon is not known in advance. Both the investment criterion and the optimal strategy...

In this note we prove Hölder-type inequalities for products of certain functionals of correlated Brownian motions. These estimates are applied to the study of optimal portfolio choice in incomplete markets when the investor's utility is of the form U(X,Y)=g(X)h(Y), where X is the investor's...

This note analyzes the mean-reverting behavior of time-homogeneous Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) forward rate models in the weighted Sobolev spaces {H<Subscript> w </Subscript>}<Subscript> w </Subscript>. An explicit sufficient condition is given under which invariant measures exist for the HJM dynamics. In particular, every HJM model with...</subscript></subscript>

Summary Robust utility functionals arise as numerical representations of investor preferences, when the investor is uncertain about the underlying probabilistic model and averse against both risk and model uncertainty. In this paper, we study the duality theory for the problem of maximizing the...

SUMMARY We give an explicit PDE characterization for the solution of a robust utility maximization problem in an incomplete market model, whose volatility, interest rate process, and long-term trend are driven by an external stochastic factor process. The robust utility functional is defined in...

We consider the infinite-horizon optimal portfolio liquidation problem for a von Neumann-Morgenstern investor in the liquidity model of Almgren (2003). Using a stochastic control approach, we characterize the value function and the optimal strategy as classical solutions of nonlinear parabolic...