This paper proposes an optimal intraday trading strategy to absorb the shock to the stock market when an online portfolio selection algorithm rebalances a portfolio. It considers real-time data of limit order books and splits a very large market order into a number of consecutive market orders...

We consider a stochastic optimization problem of maximizing the expected utility from terminal wealth in an illiquid market. A discrete time model is constructed with few additional state variables. The dynamic programming approach is then developed and used for numerical studies. No-arbitrage...

We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias (Amador, Werning, and Angeletos 2006). The government chooses mandatory contributions to respective spending/savings accounts, each with a different pre-retirement...