Title of article
Horizon-unbiased utility functions
Author/Authors
Henderson، نويسنده , , Vicky and Hobson، نويسنده , , David، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
21
From page
1621
To page
1641
Abstract
In this paper we consider a class of mixed optimal control/optimal stopping problems related to the choice of the best time to sell a single unit of an indivisible asset. We assume that in addition to the indivisible asset, the agent has access to a financial market. Investments in the financial market can be used for hedging, but the financial assets are only partially correlated with the indivisible asset, so that the agent faces an incomplete markets problem.
w how, even in the infinite horizon case, it is possible to express the problem as a maximisation problem with respect to an inter-temporal utility function evaluated at the sale time, but that this objective function must satisfy consistency conditions over time.
Keywords
Incomplete market , CRRA utility , Horizon-unbiased utility , Backward heat equation , Optimal stopping , stochastic control , Utility maximisation , real options
Journal title
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Record number
1577930
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