New formulations capture aversion to ambiguity about volatility.
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Investment strategy optimized for ambiguity and interest rate risk.
Investment strategy in ambiguous financial markets with learning
Study optimizes insurance and investment strategies for risk-averse insurers under ambiguity.
The paper solves TIC LQ control problems using stochastic differential games.
We study an optimal liquidation problem under the ambiguity with respect to price impact parameters. Our main results show that the value function and the optimal trading strategy can be characterized by the solution to a semi-linear PDE with superlinear gradient, monotone generator and singular terminal value. We also…
Study optimal timing to divest from assets with uncertain future scenarios.
Study nonconcave portfolio choice with smooth ambiguity and Bayesian learning.
Study examines insurance demand under ambiguity aversion.
Develops optimal trading strategy for illiquid currency pairs.
We study the dynamic indifference pricing with ambiguity preferences. For this, we introduce the dynamic expected utility with ambiguity via the nonlinear expectation--G-expectation, introduced by Peng (2007). We also study the risk aversion and certainty equivalent for the agents with ambiguity. We obtain the dynamic …
Characterizes preferences for decision-making under uncertainty using a leader-follower game model.
The paper analyzes investment and consumption strategies under uncertain market conditions.
Paper develops online learning-based risk-averse MPC for uncertain systems.
Motivated by recent axiomatic developments, we study the risk- and ambiguity-averse investment problem where trading takes place over a fixed finite horizon and terminal payoffs are evaluated according to a criterion defined in terms of a quasiconcave utility functional. We extend to the present setting certain existen…
An unconventional approach for optimal stopping under model ambiguity is introduced. Besides ambiguity itself, we take into account how ambiguity-averse an agent is. This inclusion of ambiguity attitude, via an -maxmin nonlinear expectation, renders the stopping problem time-inconsistent. We look for subgame perfect…
The Machina thought experiments pose to major non-expected utility models challenges that are similar to those posed by the Ellsberg thought experiments to subjective expected utility theory (SEUT). We test human choices in the `Ellsberg three-color example', confirming typical ambiguity aversion patterns, and the `Mac…
A new portfolio model considers investor aversion to loss and risk.
Investment strategy in uncertain markets improved by learning and risk-ambiguity preferences.
Model-free preference under ambiguity defined and applied.
Unified framework for DRO and DTA using Bayesian nonparametrics.
This paper analyzes a game between insurer and reinsurer under ambiguity and risk aversion, optimizing reinsurance and investment strategies.
Proposes a bond portfolio solution for managing interest rate risk.
We combine forward investment performance processes and ambiguity averse portfolio selection. We introduce the notion of robust forward criteria which addresses the issues of ambiguity in model specification and in preferences and investment horizon specification. It describes the evolution of time-consistent ambiguity…
In this paper we consider stochastic optimization problems for an ambiguity averse decision maker who is uncertain about the parameters of the underlying process. In a first part we consider problems of optimal stopping under drift ambiguity for one-dimensional diffusion processes. Analogously to the case of ordinary o…
Paper shows equivalence between two dividend preference models.
Improves DRO with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets for model misspecification.
We investigate the impact of Knightian uncertainty on the optimal timing policy of an ambiguity averse decision maker in the case where the underlying factor dynamics follow a multidimensional Brownian motion and the exercise payoff depends on either a linear combination of the factors or the radial part of the driving…
Distortion (Denneberg 1990) is a well known premium calculation principle for insurance contracts. In this paper, we study sensitivity properties of distortion functionals w.r.t. the assumptions for risk aversion as well as robustness w.r.t. ambiguity of the loss distribution. Ambiguity is measured by the Wasserstein d…
A firm with heterogeneous shareholders optimizes dividends under ambiguity aggregation.
Pari-mutuel markets are trading platforms through which the common market maker simultaneously clears multiple contingent claims markets. This market has several distinctive properties that began attracting the attention of the financial industry in the 2000s. For example, the platform aggregates liquidity from the ind…
Dynamic pricing model considers ambiguity in endowment growth rate.
We derive a closed form portfolio optimization rule for an investor who is diffident about mean return and volatility estimates, and has a CRRA utility. The novelty is that confidence is here represented using ellipsoidal uncertainty sets for the drift, given a volatility realization. This specification affords a simpl…
Optimal insurance strategy for maximizing RDEU under various premium principles.
We consider the problem of optimal risk sharing in a pool of cooperative agents. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the certainty equivalents and risk premia associated with the Pareto optimal risk sharing contract as the pool expands. We first study this problem under expected utility preferences with an objectivel…
Investor optimizes investment and consumption under uncertain market conditions with constraints.
New theory extends rank-dependent utility for risk and ambiguity.
This paper develops, in a Brownian information setting, an approach for analyzing the preference for information, a question that motivates the stochastic differential utility (SDU) due to Duffie and Epstein [Econometrica 60 (1992) 353-394]. For a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) including th…
Bayesian nonparametrics improves data-driven risk optimization under distributional uncertainty.
This paper solves a financial portfolio selection problem in incomplete markets.
This paper focuses on a dynamic multi-asset mean-variance portfolio selection problem under model uncertainty. We develop a continuous time framework for taking into account ambiguity aversion about both expected return rates and correlation matrix of the assets, and for studying the join effects on portfolio diversifi…
TRIBE model uses LLMs to simulate human trading behavior in bond markets.
We provide an economic interpretation of the practice consisting in incorporating risk measures as constraints in a classic expected return maximization problem. For what we call the infimum of expectations class of risk measures, we show that if the decision maker (DM) maximizes the expectation of a random return unde…
We propose to interpret distribution model risk as sensitivity of expected loss to changes in the risk factor distribution, and to measure the distribution model risk of a portfolio by the maximum expected loss over a set of plausible distributions defined in terms of some divergence from an estimated distribution. The…
The Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes show that the expected utility hypothesis and Savage's Sure-Thing Principle are violated in real life decisions. The popular explanation in terms of 'ambiguity aversion' is not completely accepted. On the other hand, we have recently introduced a notion of 'contextual risk' to mathemat…
This paper concerns the recursive utility maximization problem. We assume that the coefficients of the wealth equation and the recursive utility are concave. Then some interesting and important cases with nonlinear and nonsmooth coefficients satisfy our assumption. After given an equivalent backward formulation of our …
Paper proposes new strategies for better portfolio estimation in long-term investments with unknown distributions.
Develops optimal decision-making framework for uncertain counterfactuals.