Jump-diffusion Financial Market Research Articles

Optimal control on investment and reinsurance strategies with delay and common shock dependence in a jump-diffusion financial market

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we consider an optimal mean-variance investment and reinsurance problem with delay and Common Shock Dependence. An insurer can control the claim risk by purchasing proportional reinsurance. He/she invests his/her wealth on a risk-free asset and a risky asset, which follows the jump-diffusion process. By introducing a capital flow related to the historical performance of the insurer, the wealth process described by a stochastic differential equation with delay is obtained. By stochastic linear-quadratic control theory and stochastic control theory with delay, we achieve the explicit expression of the optimal strategy and value function in the framework of the viscosity solution. Furthermore, an efficient strategy and its efficient frontier are derived by Lagrange dual method. Finally, we analyze the influence of the parameters of our model on the efficient frontier by a numerical example.</p>

Optimal time-consistent reinsurance and investment strategies for a jump–diffusion financial market without cash

This paper considers an optimal reinsurance and investment strategies for an insurer under mean–variance criterion within a game theoretic framework. Specially, it is assumed that the surplus process is governed by a Cramér–Lundberg model, and apart from purchasing reinsurance, the insurer is allowed to invest in a financial market with multiple assets that all can be risky, whose price processes are modeled by the jump–diffusion process. Due to the market without cash, the method of separating the variables is not viable any more. We turn to an alternative approach to solve the extended Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation, and closed-form expressions of the optimal strategies and value function are not only derived but also proved to be uniqueness. Moreover, some special cases of our model are provided and several numerical analyses for our results are presented as well. Under this criterion, different from existing literature, we find that (i) the value function is not linear but quadratic with respect to the current wealth; (ii) the optimal reinsurance and investment strategies depend on the wealth process; (iii) the parameters of risky assets(insurance market) have impacts on the optimal reinsurance(investment) policy; (iv) the safety loading of the insurer affects the optimal strategies.

Equilibrium for a Time-Inconsistent Stochastic Linear–Quadratic Control System with Jumps and Its Application to the Mean-Variance Problem

This paper studies a kind of time-inconsistent linear–quadratic control problem in a more general framework with stochastic coefficients and random jumps. The time inconsistency comes from the dependence of the terminal cost on the current state as well as the presence of a quadratic term of the expected terminal state in the objective functional. Instead of finding a global optimal control, we look for a time-consistent locally optimal equilibrium solution within the class of open-loop controls. A general sufficient and necessary condition for equilibrium controls via a flow of forward–backward stochastic differential equations is derived. This paper further develops a new methodology to cope with the mathematical difficulties arising from the presence of stochastic coefficients and random jumps. As an application, we study a mean-variance portfolio selection problem in a jump-diffusion financial market; an explicit equilibrium investment strategy in a deterministic coefficients case is obtained and proved to be unique.

Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection in a Jump-Diffusion Financial Market with Common Shock Dependence

This paper considers the optimal investment problem in a financial market with one risk-free asset and one jump-diffusion risky asset. It is assumed that the insurance risk process is driven by a compound Poisson process and the two jump number processes are correlated by a common shock. A general mean-variance optimization problem is investigated, that is, besides the objective of terminal condition, the quadratic optimization functional includes also a running penalizing cost, which represents the deviations of the insurer’s wealth from a desired profit-solvency goal. By solving the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, we derive the closed-form expressions for the value function, as well as the optimal strategy. Moreover, under suitable assumption on model parameters, our problem reduces to the classical mean-variance portfolio selection problem and the efficient frontier is obtained.

Optimal reinsurance and investment in a jump-diffusion financial market with common shock dependence

In this paper, we study the optimal reinsurance and investment problem in a financial market with jump-diffusion risky asset. It is assumed that the insurance risk model is modulated by a compound Poisson process, and that the jumps in both the risky asset and insurance risk process are correlated through a common shock. Under the criterion of maximizing the expected exponential utility, we adopt a nonstandard approach to examine the existence and uniqueness of the optimal strategy. Using the technique of stochastic control theory, closed-form expressions for the optimal strategy and the value function are derived not only for the expected value principle but also for the variance premium principle. Also, we investigate the effect of the common shock parameter as well as some other important parameters on the optimal strategies. In particular, a numerical example shows that the optimal investment strategy decreases as the degree of common shock dependence increases but the optimal insurance retention level does not behave the same.

Robust mean variance portfolio selection model in the jump-diffusion financial market with an intractable claim

In this paper, a continuous-time robust mean variance model in the jump-diffusion financial market with an intractable claim is considered, in which the price processes of the assets not only are driven by the Brownian motion, but also have the Poisson jumps. By combining the martingale representation theorem and the quantile formulation method, an explicit closed-form solution of the robust mean-variance portfolio selection model is given under some suitable assumptions.

Time-consistent mean-variance reinsurance-investment in a jump-diffusion financial market

This paper study an optimal time-consistent reinsurance-investment strategy selection problem in a financial market with jump-diffusion risky asset, where the insurance risk model is modulated by a compound Poisson process. The aggregate claim process and the price process of risky asset are correlated by a common Poisson process. The objective of the insurer is to choose an optimal time-consistent reinsurance-investment strategy so as to maximize the expected terminal surplus while minimizing the variance of the terminal surplus. Since this problem is time-inconsistent, we attack it by placing the problem within a game theoretic framework and looking for subgame perfect Nash equilibrium strategy. We investigate the problem using the extended Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman dynamic programming approach. Closed-form solutions for the optimal reinsurance-investment strategy and the corresponding value functions are obtained. Numerical examples and economic significance analysis are also provided to illustrate how the optimal reinsurance-investment strategy changes when some model parameters vary.

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment problem with constraints on risk control in a general jump-diffusion financial market

Optimal proportional reinsurance and investment problem with constraints on risk control in a general jump-diffusion financial market

Optimal mean–variance reinsurance and investment in a jump-diffusion financial market with common shock dependence

In this paper, we study the optimal reinsurance-investment problems in a financial market with jump-diffusion risky asset, where the insurance risk model is modulated by a compound Poisson process, and the two jump number processes are correlated by a common shock. Moreover, we remove the assumption of nonnegativity on the expected value of the jump size in the stock market, which is more economic reasonable since the jump sizes are always negative in the real financial market. Under the criterion of mean–variance, based on the stochastic linear–quadratic control theory, we derive the explicit expressions of the optimal strategies and value function which is a viscosity solution of the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation. Furthermore, we extend the results in the linear–quadratic setting to the original mean–variance problem, and obtain the solutions of efficient strategy and efficient frontier explicitly. Some numerical examples are given to show the impact of model parameters on the efficient frontier.

OPTIMAL PROPORTIONAL REINSURANCE AND INVESTMENT PROBLEM WITH CONSTRAINTS ON RISK CONTROL IN A GENERAL JUMP-DIFFUSION FINANCIAL MARKET

We study the optimal proportional reinsurance and investment problem in a general jump-diffusion financial market. Assuming that the insurer’s surplus process follows a jump-diffusion process, the insurer can purchase proportional reinsurance from the reinsurer and invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset, whose price is modelled by a general jump-diffusion process. The insurance company wishes to maximize the expected exponential utility of the terminal wealth. By using techniques of stochastic control theory, closed-form expressions for the value function and optimal strategy are obtained. A Monte Carlo simulation is conducted to illustrate that the closed-form expressions we derived are indeed the optimal strategies, and some numerical examples are presented to analyse the impact of model parameters on the optimal strategies.

Dynamic programming for a Markov-switching jump–diffusion

We consider an optimal control problem with a deterministic finite horizon and state variable dynamics given by a Markov-switching jump–diffusion stochastic differential equation. Our main results extend the dynamic programming technique to this larger family of stochastic optimal control problems. More specifically, we provide a detailed proof of Bellman’s optimality principle (or dynamic programming principle) and obtain the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Belman equation, which turns out to be a partial integro-differential equation due to the extra terms arising from the Lévy process and the Markov process. As an application of our results, we study a finite horizon consumption–investment problem for a jump–diffusion financial market consisting of one risk-free asset and one risky asset whose coefficients are assumed to depend on the state of a continuous time finite state Markov process. We provide a detailed study of the optimal strategies for this problem, for the economically relevant families of power utilities and logarithmic utilities.

Optimal Mean-Variance Problem with Constrained Controls in a Jump-Diffusion Financial Market for an Insurer

In this paper, we study the optimal investment and optimal reinsurance problem for an insurer under the criterion of mean-variance. The insurer’s risk process is modeled by a compound Poisson process and the insurer can invest in a risk-free asset and a risky asset whose price follows a jump-diffusion process. In addition, the insurer can purchase new business (such as reinsurance). The controls (investment and reinsurance strategies) are constrained to take nonnegative values due to nonnegative new business and no-shorting constraint of the risky asset. We use the stochastic linear-quadratic (LQ) control theory to derive the optimal value and the optimal strategy. The corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) equation no longer has a classical solution. With the framework of viscosity solution, we give a new verification theorem, and then the efficient strategy (optimal investment strategy and optimal reinsurance strategy) and the efficient frontier are derived explicitly.

Dynamic Control of the Investment Portfolio in the Jump-Diffusion Financial Market with Regime Switching

A problem for control of the portfolio of securities consisting of risky and riskless investments is stated as a dynamic problem of tracking of the standard (hypothetical) portfolio displaying the prescribed desired effectiveness. It is assume that the dynamics of prices of risky financial assets is described by stochastic equations with regular and pulse disturbances and a step (jump-like) change of parameters that corresponds to the switching of the operating regimes a financial market. An approach to the evaluation of an optimal strategy of feedback control over a quadratic criterion is suggested.