While cointegration models with constant parameters generate statistical arbitrage, the cointegration feature may change and even disappear due to regime shifts. This paper studies the time-consistent mean-variance portfolio problem in a Markov-modulated regime switching cointegration economy....

As the dynamic mean-variance portfolio selection formulation does not satisfy the principle of optimality of dynamic programming, phenomena of time inconsistency occur, i.e., investors may have incentives to deviate from the pre-committed optimal mean-variance portfolio policy during the...