We model a risk-averse firm owner who wants to maximize the intertemporal expected utility of firm’s dividends. The optimal dynamic control problem is characterized by two stochastic state variables: the equity value, and profitability (ROA) of the _rm. According to the empirical evidence, we...

In the present paper, we investigate the Merton portfolio management problem in the context of non-exponential discounting, a context that gives rise to time-inconsistency of the decision-maker. We consider equilibrium policies within the class of open-loop controls that are characterized, in...

The integrated provision of energy among various energy sectors plays an important role in the process of decarbonisation of large energy systems. An important pillar is thereby the decarbonisation of the heat sector, where nowadays still a large percentage of heat supply originates from...