We show that under a dynamic information acquisition process, a risk averse investor's unconditional expected optimal quantity of information and investment amount are higher than those under the corresponding static information acquisition process. However, when the initial belief of the...

Central and local governments around the world are seeking investments from private firms tocreate smart city solutions. Motivated by this, we model an investor and a local governmentwith a Stackelberg game. The investor has a CARA (or exponential) utility function and she hasan option to...

We develop a new dynamic continuous-time model of optimal consumption and investment to include independent stochastic labor income. We reduce the problem of solving the Bellman equation to a problem of solving an integral equation. We then explicitly characterize the optimal consumption and...