The optimal retirement decision is essentially an optimal stopping problem when retirement is irreversible. We investigate the optimal consumption, investment and retirement problem when the growth rate is unobservable and is estimated by filtering from historical stock prices. To ensure both...

Consider robust utility maximization with an irreversible consumption habit, where an agent concerned about model ambiguity is unwilling to decrease consumption and must simultaneously contend with a disutility (i.e., an adjustment cost) due to a consumption increase. While the optimization is a...

Social distancing has been the only effective way to contain the spread of an infectious disease prior to the availability of the pharmaceutical treatment. It can lower the infection rate of the disease at the economic cost. A pandemic crisis like COVID-19, however, has posed a dilemma to the...