In the context of decision making for retirees of a defined contribution pension scheme in the de-cumulation phase, we formulate and solve a problem of finding the optimal time of annuitization for a retiree having the possibility of choosing her own investment and consumption strategy. We...

We consider a problem of optimal reinsurance and investment for an insurance company whose surplus is governed by a linear diffusion. The company's risk (and simultaneously its potential profit) is reduced through reinsurance, while in addition the company invests its surplus in a financial...

We use the expectation of the range of an arithmetic Brownian motion and the method of moments on the daily high, low, opening, and closing prices to estimate the volatility of the stock price. This novel theoretical approach results in an estimator that is genuinely range-based on daily...

In this paper, first we study a stochastic volatility market model for which an explicit candidate solution to the problem of maximizing the utility function of terminal wealth is obtained. Applying this result, we present a complete solution for the Heston model, which is a particular case of...

The paper develops a stochastic dynamic model of economic equilibrium with locally interacting agents. The main focus of the study is on the modeling of market interactions - those arising in connection with commodity exchange and regulated by price mechanisms. The mathematical framework is a...

In this paper, we study an optimal stochastic control problem for an insurance company whose surplus process is modeled by a Brownian motion with drift (the diffusion approximation model). The company can purchase reinsurance to lower its risk and receive cash injections at discrete times to...