Title :
Optimal terminal wealth under partial information: Both the drift and the volatility driven by a discrete time Markov chain
Author :
Taksar, Michael ; Zeng, Xudong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Abstract :
We consider a multi-stock market model. The stock price process satisfies a stochastic differential equation where both the drift and the volatility are driven by a discrete-time Markov chain of finite states. Not only the underlying Brownian motion but also the Markov chain in the stochastic differential equation are assumed to be unobservable. Investors can observe the stock price process only. The main result of this paper is that we derive the approximation of the optimal trading strategy and the corresponding optimal expected utility function from terminal wealth.
Keywords :
Brownian motion; Markov processes; approximation theory; differential equations; discrete time systems; optimisation; pricing; share prices; stock markets; utility theory; Brownian motion; discrete time finite state Markov chain; multistock market model; optimal expected utility function; optimal terminal wealth; optimal trading strategy approximation; partial information; stochastic differential equation; stock price; Differential equations; Hidden Markov models; Information filtering; Mathematics; Optimal control; Optimization methods; Portfolios; Solid modeling; Stochastic processes; Utility theory;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2008. CDC 2008. 47th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3123-6
Electronic_ISBN :
0191-2216
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2008.4739491