Abstract

We study a novel general class of multidimensional type-I backward stochastic Volterra integral equations. Toward this goal, we introduce an infinite family of standard backward SDEs and establish its well-posedness, and we show that it is equivalent to that of a type-I backward stochastic Volterra integral equation. We also establish a representation formula in terms of non-linear semi-linear partial differential equation of Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman type. As an application, we consider the study of time-inconsistent stochastic control from a game-theoretic point of view. We show the equivalence of two current approaches to this problem from both a probabilistic and an analytic point of view.

Highlights

  • This paper is concerned with introducing a unified method to address the wellposedness of backward stochastic Volterra integral equations, BSVIEs for short

  • BSDEs of linear type were first introduced by Bismut [10, 11] as an adjoint equation in the Pontryagin stochastic maximum principle

  • The contemporary work of Davis and Varaiya [20]1 studied a precursor of a linear BSDE for characterising the value function and the optimal controls of stochastic control problems with drift control only

Read more

Summary

Introduction

A natural extension of (1.1) arises by considering a collection of GT -measurable random variables (ξ(t))t∈[0,T ], referred in the literature of BSVIEs as the free term, as well as a generator g In such a setting, a solution to a BSVIE is a pair (Y·, Z··) of processes such that. In this paper we want to build upon the strategy devised in [29] and address the well-posedness of a general and novel class of type-I BSVIEs. We let X be the solution to a drift-less stochastic differential equation (SDE, for short) under a probability measure P, and F be the P-augmentation of the filtration generated by X, see Section 2.1 for details, and consider a tuple (Y··, Z··, N··), of appropriately F-adapted processes, which for any s ∈ [0, T ] satisfy, P−a.s. for any t ∈ [0, T ], the equation.

Preliminaries
The stochastic basis on the canonical space
Functional spaces and norms
An infinite family of BSDEs
Well-posedness of type-I BSVIEs
H2 and thus
Representation formula for adapted solutions of type-I BSVIEs
On equilibria and their value function in time-inconsistent control problems
Analysis of the BSDE system
Regularity of the system and the diagonal processes
A priori estimates
Well-posedness

Talk to us

Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have

Schedule a call

Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.