We extend an existing numerical model (Grasselli (2011)) for valuing a real option to invest in a capital project in an incomplete market with a finite time horizon. In doing so, we include two separate effects: the possibility that the project value is partly describable according to a...

In this paper, we consider the optimal strategies in asset allocation, consumption, and life insurance for a household with an exogenous stochastic income under a self-contagious market which is modeled by bivariate self-exciting Hawkes jump processes. By using the Hawkes process, jump...

This paper studies a time-inconsistent dividend problem in discrete time with nonex- ponential discounting. Motivated by the decreasing impatience in behaviour economics, a general discount function is used and assumed to be log sub-additive. Using a game-theoretic approach equilibrium barrier...

This paper develops numerical methods for finding optimal dividend pay-out and reinsurance policies. A generalized singular control formulation of surplus and discounted payoff function are introduced, where the surplus is modeled by a regime-switching process subject to both regular and...

This work focuses on the indifference pricing of American call option underlying a non-traded stock, which may be partially hedgeable by another traded stock. Under the exponential forward measure, the indifference price is formulated as a stochastic singular control problem. The value function...

Controversies like the "Freedom Fries" dispute between the United States and France over Iraq suggest that nationalistic tensions can disrupt international trade. We use a natural experiment to investigate this possibility. Building off recent research that uses international sports as a source...