This thesis deals with the portfolio optimization problem of an investor who aims to maximize the expected utility of her terminal wealth. The considered multidimensional asset price model incorporates several risk factors modeled both by diffusion processes and by a Markov chain. Based on the...

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Strategy (KCGIS) is to maximize the expected utility of nal wealth with a logarithmic utility function. This approach dates to Bernoulli's 1738 suggestion of log as the utility function arguing that marginal utility was proportional to the reciprocal of...

We consider an investor faced with the utility maximization problem in which the risky asset price process has pure-jump dynamics affected by an unobservable continuous-time finite-state Markov chain, the intensity of which can also be controlled by actions of the investor. Using the classical...

The aim of this dissertation is the behavioral portfolio selection problem in which risk is measured as the probability of shortfall. Using behavioral elements, such as mental accounting, and emotions and cognition, this dissertation investigates empirical issues related to behavioral asset...