Improving the resilience of the economy in the face of uncertain climate change damages involves irreversible investments to scale up new technologies that are less vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The benefit of having such options includes the avoided welfare cost of diverting...

The seminal work of Mandelbrot and Fama, carried out in the sixties, suggested the class of alpha-stable laws as a probabilistic model of financial assets returns. Stable distributions possess several properties which make plausible their application in the field of finance - heavy tails, excess...

We introduce a numerical method to solve stochastic optimal control problems, which are linear in the control. We facilitate the idea of solving two-point boundary value problems with spline functions in order to solve the resulting dynamic programming equation. We then show how to effectively...

We present a fast method to price and hedge CMS spread options in the displaced-diffusion co-initial swap market model. Numerical tests demonstrate that we are able to obtain sufficiently accurate prices and Greeks with computational times measured in milliseconds. Further, we find that CMS...

We study optimal monetary policy in a flexible state-dependent pricing framework, in which monopolistic competition and stochastic menu costs are the only distortions. We show analytically that it is optimal to commit to zero inflation in the long run. Moreover, our numerical simulations...