In this paper we consider optimal consumption and strategic asset allocation decisions of an investor with a finite planning horizon. A Q-learning approach is used to maximize the expected utility of consumption. The first part of the paper presents conceptually the implementation of Q-learning...

We consider a cash management problem where a company with a given financial endowment and future cash flows minimizes the Conditional Value at Risk of final wealth using a lower bound for the expected terminal wealth. We formulate the optimization problem as a multi-stage stochastic linear...

In several areas of the world, hail is one of the most detrimental atmospheric phenomenon for agriculture, causing a significant loss of output and, consequently, of farms' revenues. Despite being a highly stochastic and localized phenomenon, thus allowing for a sustainable insurance market to...

In this paper, we consider hail as a single source weather shock and we analyse the trade-off between anti-hail nets and insurance. We propose a simple theoretical model that is rooted into expected utility theory. After describing the basic model, we perform some comparative static analyses to...

We show the practical viability of a short-term treasury management model which is formulated as a multi-stage stochastic linear program. A company minimises the Conditional Value at Risk of final wealth, subject to given future cash flows and the uncertain future development of interest rates...