Geometric Brownian motion;
Convex set;
Resolvent kernel;
Duality;
Integral representation of excessive function;
Optimal investment problem;
American put option;
Integral equation;
OPTIMAL STOPPING GAMES;
AMERICAN;
STOCK;
D O I:
10.1007/s11579-017-0195-y
中图分类号:
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号:
0202 ;
摘要:
In this paper we demonstrate that the Riesz representation of excessive functions is a useful and enlightening tool to study optimal stopping problems. After a short general discussion of the Riesz representation we concretize to geometric Brownian motions. After this, a classical investment problem, also known as exchange-of-baskets-problem, is studied. It is seen that the boundary of the stopping region in this problem can be characterized as a unique solution of an integral equation arising immediately from the Riesz representation of the value function. The two-dimensional case is studied in more detail and a numerical algorithm is presented.