We study an optimal consumption-portfolio selection problem in which an economic agent is able to choose a discretionary stopping time in a continuous-time framework. We focus on studying the problem for the case where the agent’s preference changes around the stopping time. We obtain the...

We consider the optimal investment and consumption problem in a Black–Scholes market, if the target functional is given by expected discounted utility of consumption plus expected discounted utility of terminal wealth. We investigate the behaviour of the optimal strategies, if the relative...

We consider power utility maximization of terminal wealth in a 1-dimensional continuous-time exponential Lévy model with finite time horizon. We discretize the model by restricting portfolio adjustments to an equidistant discrete time grid. Under minimal assumptions we prove convergence of the...

In a market with partial information we consider the optimal selection of portfolios for utility maximizing investors under joint budget and shortfall risk constraints. The shortfall risk is measured in terms of expected loss. Stock returns satisfy a stochastic differential equation. Under...

In the CRR model we introduce a transaction cost structure which covers piecewise proportional, fixed and constant costs. For a general utility function we formulate the problem of maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth as a Markov control problem. An existence result is given and...

The paper studies connections between arbitrage and utility maximization in a discrete-time financial market. The market is incomplete. Thus one has several choices of equivalent martingale measures to price contingent claims. Davis determines a unique price for a contingent claim which is based...

A discrete-time financial market model is considered with a sequence of investors whose preferences are described by concave strictly increasing functions defined on the positive axis. Under suitable conditions, we show that the utility indifference prices of a bounded contingent claim converge...

We discuss an optimal portfolio selection problem of an insurer who faces model uncertainty in a jump-diffusion risk model using a game theoretic approach. In particular, the optimal portfolio selection problem is formulated as a two-person, zero-sum, stochastic differential game between the...

We consider a portfolio optimization problem for a utility maximizing investor who is simultaneously restricted by convex constraints on portfolio allocation and upper and lower bounds on terminal wealth. After introducing a capped version of the Legendre–Fenchel-transformation, we use it to...