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PORTFOLIO SELECTION WITH NONNEGATIVE WEALTH CONSTRAINTS: A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH

  • Shin, Yong Hyun
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.145-149
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    • 2014
  • I consider the optimal consumption and portfolio selection problem with nonnegative wealth constraints using the dynamic programming approach. I use the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility function and disutility to derive the closed-form solutions.

Optimal Bankruptcy with a Continuous Debt Repayment

  • Lim, Byung Hwa
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2016
  • We investigate the optimal consumption and investment problem when a working debtor has an option to file for bankruptcy. By applying the duality approach, the closed-form solutions are obtained for the case of CRRA utility function. The optimal bankruptcy time is determined by the first hitting time when the financial wealth hits the wealth threshold derived from the optimal stopping time problem. Moreover, the numerical results show that the investment increases as the wealth approaches the threshold and the value gain from the bankruptcy option is vanished as wealth increases.

PORTFOLIO SELECTION WITH INCOME RISK: A NEW APPROACH

  • Lim, Byung Hwa
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.329-336
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    • 2016
  • The optimal portfolio choice problem with a stochastic income is considered in continuous-time framework. We provide a novel approach to treat the stochastic income when the market is complete. The developed method is useful to obtain closed-form solutions of the problems under borrowing constraints.

PORTFOLIO CHOICE UNDER INFLATION RISK: MARTINGALE APPROACH

  • Lim, Byung Hwa
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.343-349
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    • 2013
  • The optimal portfolio selection problem under inflation risk is considered in this paper. There are three assets the economic agent can invest, which are a risk free bond, an index bond and a risky asset. By applying the martingale method, the optimal consumption rate and the optimal portfolios for each asset are obtained explicitly.

OPTIMAL CONSUMPTION, PORTFOLIO, AND LIFE INSURANCE WITH BORROWING CONSTRAINT AND RISK AVERSION CHANGE

  • Lee, Ho-Seok
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.375-383
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    • 2016
  • This paper investigates an optimal consumption, portfolio, and life insurance strategies of a family when there is a borrowing constraint and risk aversion change at the time of death of the breadwinner. A CRRA utility is employed and by using the dynamic programming method, we obtain analytic expressions for the optimal strategies.

Optimal Asset Allocation with Minimum Performance and Inflation Risk (최소 자산제약 및 인플레이션을 고려한 자산 할당에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Byung Hwa
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.167-181
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    • 2013
  • We investigate the dynamic asset allocation problem under inflation risk when the wealth of an investor is constrained with minimum requirements. To capture the investor's risk preference, the CRRA utility function is considered and he maximizes his expected utility at predetermined date of the refund by participation in the financial market. The financial market is supposed to consist of three kinds of financial instruments which are a risk free asset, a risky asset, and an index bond. The role of an index bond is managing inflation risk represented by price process. The optimal wealth and the optimal asset allocation are derived explicitly by using the method to get the European call option pricing formula. From the numerical results, it is confirmed that the investments on index bond is high when the investor's wealth level is low. However, as his wealth increases, the investments on index bond decreases and he invests on risky asset more. Furthermore, the minimum wealth constraint induces lower investment on risky asset but the effect of the constraints is reduced as the wealth level increases.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR RETIREMENT? OPTIMAL SAVING, LABOR SUPPLY, AND INVESTMENT STRATEGY

  • Koo, Bon Cheon;Koo, Jisoo;Song, Hana;Yoon, Hyo-Bin;Kim, Min-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.283-294
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    • 2014
  • In this paper we study consumption-labor supply decision of an agent who prepares for retirement at a known time in the future. The agent is assumed to have a preference which is represented by the von Neumann-Morgenstern utility function in which the felicity function has constant relative risk aversion over the composite of consumption and leisure. The composite is obtained by the Cobb-Douglas function. A general problem has been studied by Bodie et al. (2004). We contribute to the literature by deriving the Slutsky equations and conducting comparative statics. In particular, we show that wealth effect can exhibit an interesting property depending upon the time until retirement, as the interest rate increases.