Optimizes banks' capital allocation using linear approximations.
problem Maximizing return on capital for banks' business units.
method Formulated as mean variance optimization with linear approximations to cost functions.
result Analytical solution for optimal leveraged balance sheet and risk weighted assets.
Study optimal portfolios of eligible assets for capital adequacy tests.
problem Finding minimal capital for passing a financial test.
method Existence and uniqueness of optimal portfolios, stability properties.
result Lower semicontinuity of optimal portfolios set-valued map, stability under polyhedral risk measures.
Optimal dividend strategy with capital injections over a finite time horizon.
problem Maximizing profits from dividends and minimizing costs of capital injections.
method Relating the problem to an optimal stopping problem for a drifted Brownian motion absorbed at the origin.
result The optimal dividend strategy is triggered by a moving boundary derived from the stopping problem.
Solves investment, consumption, and life insurance problem with capital constraints.
problem Optimal investment, consumption, and life insurance with capital constraints.
method Martingale approach to prove existence of optimal strategy and measure, explicit solutions for power utility functions.
result Explicit solutions for optimal investment, consumption, and life insurance strategies.
Optimal strategy for insurance company dividends and capital injection with restrictions.
problem Managing dividends and capital injection under a surplus process restriction.
method Singular stochastic control problem with optimal strategies identified.
result Optimal strategies change based on capital injection costs and dividend payout barriers.
Optimal control problem for firm cash flow with dividend and capital injection strategies.
problem Maximizing dividends while managing capital injections in a firm's cash flow.
method Proved two optimal strategies: mean-reverting dividends with capital injections or no injections until ruin.
result Optimal strategies are dichotomous: either mean-reverting dividends with injections or no injections.
The paper optimizes insurer's dividend, reinsurance, and capital injection strategies for two collaborating business lines.
problem Maximizing expected total dividend payments while managing risk and preventing ruin.
method Solving the problem using a closed-form value function for optimal strategies.
result Optimal strategies include threshold dividend payout, decreasing reinsured risk, and capital injection to prevent ruin.
The paper analyzes optimal dividend and capital injection strategies under time-inconsistent preferences.
problem Optimal dividend and capital injection strategies under time-inconsistent preferences.
method Diffusion risk model with general discount functions, weak equilibrium definition, HJB equation system.
result Explicit solutions and threshold types of optimal strategies derived under different discount functions.
Study on optimal capital injection for insurance companies under negative interest rates.
problem Optimal capital injection behavior of insurance companies under negative interest rates.
method Modelled the surplus process as a Brownian motion with drift and interest rate changes as a Markov-switching process. Established an algorithm for finding the value function and optimal strategy.
result Optimal strategy involves holding a positive reserve when interest rate is negative, unlike when positive.
In this paper, we study the optimal control problem for a company whose surplus process evolves as an upward jump diffusion with random return on investment. Three types of practical optimization problems faced by a company that can control its liquid reserves by paying dividends and injecting capital. In the first pro…
Optimizes financial decisions with illiquid assets using Kelly criterion.
problem Determining optimal betting strategies in games with external capital constraints.
method Dynamic programming and WKB approximation for multi-round games; Kelly criterion for single-round games.
result Rational players adjust their risk-taking based on the proportion of their capital locked away.
Optimal portfolio tracking with dynamic capital injection into a ratcheting benchmark.
problem Optimizing a portfolio's performance by dynamically adding capital to a non-decreasing benchmark.
method Formulated as an unconstrained control problem with a running maximum cost, transformed into an auxiliary problem with a nonlinear HJB equation, solved using probabilistic representation and stochastic flow analysis.
result Established the existence of a unique classical solution to the HJB equation, providing feedback optimal portfolio strategies.
Study revisits Leland-Toft model with Poisson observation intervals.
problem Optimal capital structure under discrete asset value updates.
method Spectrally negative Lévy model with Poisson observation process.
result Optimal bankruptcy strategy and capital structure derived.
Defines market-consistent value of insurance liabilities under capital requirements.
problem Value of insurance liabilities subject to repeated capital requirements.
method Optimal stopping problems and backward recursion to compute value.
result Defines the value of insurance liabilities as no-arbitrage price optimally stopped.
Study optimal dividend strategy with capital injection for Lévy processes.
problem Optimal dividend strategy with capital injection under specific constraints.
method Used fluctuation identities of refracted-reflected Lévy process to derive explicit solution.
result Explicit optimal strategy and value function expressed in terms of scale function.
The paper analyzes equity market dynamics and optimal portfolios using time-varying optimization.
problem Analyzing the time-varying structure of equity markets, particularly market capitalization inequality and concentration.
method The study employs mathematical functionals of time-varying portfolios and a Sharpe optimization procedure.
result Optimal portfolios exhibit varying market capitalization exposure over time.
Optimizes capital structure for life insurance companies with surplus participation.
problem Determining the optimal participation rate in life insurance contracts.
method Adapted Leland's dynamic capital structure model to life insurance context.
result Optimal participation rate is highly sensitive to contract duration and tax rate.
Investment strategy depends on many factors for venture capital funds.
problem Finding the optimal portfolio size for venture capital funds.
method Analyzes various factors affecting fund returns and optimal portfolio size, starting with basic assumptions and increasing complexity.
result Investment strategy depends on many factors, not a one-size-fits-all formula.
Study on risk sharing in capital requirements for diverse security markets.
problem Risk sharing for capital adequacy tests in heterogeneous security markets.
method Analyzes conditions for a representative agent, studies polyhedral and distribution-based constraints, proves existence of optimal allocations and equilibria.
result Existence of optimal risk allocations and equilibria under different capital adequacy constraints.
A new approach optimizes capital allocation for firms with multiple business lines.
problem Optimizing capital allocation for firms with multiple business lines, especially considering correlations between lines.
method Introducing a common environmental factor, a Bayesian approach to calibrate latent state distribution, and optimal capital determination.
result Developed an easy-to-implement approach for capital risk management in multi-dimensional insurance risk models.
The paper analyzes risk measures and optimal reserve allocation strategies.
problem Risk measures and optimal reserve allocation across multiple lines of business.
method Formalizes expected maximum deficit, introduces implicitly bounded risk measures, and proposes capital allocation approaches.
result Theoretical results on static and dynamic coherence, convexity, and exact optimizations of aggregate minimum reserves.
Reinsurance can help life insurers maintain higher capital guarantees without losing utility.
problem Decreasing capital guarantees in life insurance products.
method Dynamic investment-reinsurance optimization problem with simultaneous Value-at-Risk and no-short-selling constraints. Introduced guarantee-equivalent utility gain for comparison.
result Optimally managed reinsurance allows insurers to offer higher capital guarantees without reducing expected utility.
Automated trading systems on developed and emerging capital markets are studied in this paper. The standard for developed market is automated trading system with 40-days simple moving average. We tested it for the index SIX Industrial for 1000 and 730 trading days of the slovak emerging capital market. The Buy and Hold…
The paper optimizes insurer's decisions on dividends, reinsurance, and capital injection under model uncertainty.
problem Maximizing insurer's expected discounted dividends while managing model uncertainty and risk.
method Modeling reserve levels as diffusion processes, solving for optimal strategies in closed form.
result Optimal strategies include barrier dividend and capital injection policies.
Dynamic reinsurance minimizes insurer's cost of capital over time.
problem Minimizing insurer's cost of capital in a dynamic reinsurance setting.
method Dynamic extension of the static optimal reinsurance problem, viewed as a risk-sensitive Markov Decision Process.
result Existence of a stationary Markovian optimal reinsurance policy under an infinite planning horizon.
Optimal fund deployment strategy under uncertain deal arrivals.
problem Deciding when to invest in deals with uncertain future arrivals.
method Formulated as CTMDP, solved via ADP with QMC sampling.
result Developed interpretable acceptance policy outperforming baseline.
Study optimizes CT and microinsurance for efficient social protection in low-income countries.
problem Efficient targeting of cash transfers to reduce social protection costs in low-income countries.
method Modelled household capital dynamics using piecewise-deterministic Markov process, derived HJB equation for optimal injection, used dynamic programming.
result Optimal level of capital injection above poverty threshold for cost-effective social protection.
Optimal dividend strategy with ratcheting and capital injection under Cramér-Lundberg model.
problem Optimal dividend payout for an insurance company with ratcheting constraints and capital injections.
method Systematic probabilistic and PDE-based approach to solve HJB equation, constructing strong solution and optimal strategy.
result Existence and uniqueness of strong solution, explicit optimal feedback control strategy.
New risk-sharing rules induced by capital allocation principles.
problem Risk sharing in corporate structures.
method Randomizing existing capital allocation principles.
result Derives new risk-sharing rules complementing existing literature.
The paper optimizes insurance strategies for two collaborating business lines.
problem Maximizing dividends and managing risk for two collaborating business lines.
method Closed-form solutions for optimal strategies, including dividend payout, reinsurance, and capital injection.
result Optimal strategies involve pure excess-of-loss reinsurance and transferring reserves to prevent ruin.
Paper solves optimal contract problem for fund managers with capital injections and trading constraints.
problem Optimal contract for a fund manager with capital injections and endogenous trading constraints.
method Reduces the problem to an inverse problem of SPDE, proving well-posedness and computing the solution explicitly in the Black-Scholes model.
result Characterizes the solution to the inverse problem through a Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE).
Optimizes bank capital structure under Basel III constraints, simplifying complex dynamics.
problem Optimizing risky investments, dividends, and capital structure under Basel III constraints.
method Formulated as a stochastic control problem, reducing dynamics to a one-dimensional process in leverage ratio.
result Simple policy: pay dividends at an upper barrier and recapitalize at the distress boundary.
Study optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with self-exciting claim arrivals.
problem Optimal dividend and capital injection in insurance portfolios with Hawkes process claim arrivals.
method Analytical properties, explicit threshold, HJB variational inequality, finite-difference scheme, policy-gradient, actor-critic methods.
result Learned strategies closely match the PDE benchmark and remain stable across initial conditions.
This paper optimizes tracking portfolios in incomplete markets using reinforcement learning.
problem Optimizing tracking portfolios in incomplete markets with capital injection.
method Reinforcement learning approach for optimal control in reflected diffusion processes.
result Satisfactory performance of the q-learning algorithm in numerical examples.
Paper proposes trading strategies considering stock taxes for better returns.
problem Trading strategies without tax consideration can lead to significant loss.
method Used deep reinforcement learning to learn optimal trading strategies with and without taxes.
result Tax ignorance can cause more than 62% loss in average portfolio returns.
We study the optimal financing and dividend distribution problem with restricted dividend rates in a diffusion type surplus model where the drift and volatility coefficients are general functions of the level of surplus and the external environment regime. The environment regime is modeled by a Markov process. Both cap…
Study uses LLMs to optimize VC exit timing after IPO.
problem Optimal exit timing after IPO is crucial but not well studied.
method Uses LLMs to analyze financial data and market signals.
result LLMs can improve VC exit timing and generate better returns.
Study examines impact of capital structure on Indian auto companies' profitability.
problem Understanding the impact of capital structure on profitability of Indian auto companies.
method Used fixed and random effect models with 10 years of data from 17 companies.
result Optimal capital structure improves company performance and maintains capital adequacy.
We study capital process behavior in the fair-coin game and biased-coin games in the framework of the game-theoretic probability of Shafer and Vovk (2001). We show that if Skeptic uses a Bayesian strategy with a beta prior, the capital process is lucidly expressed in terms of the past average of Reality's moves. From t…
Proposes a robust risk measure to minimize capital errors.
problem Minimizing capital determination errors due to risk overestimation and underestimation.
method Uses supremum over probability measures to minimize overestimation and underestimation costs.
result Guarantees the existence of a solution and explores properties of minimizer and minimum as risk and deviation measures.
Simple, non-optimized portfolios beat capitalization-weighted indexes due to excess growth, not individual stock growth.
problem Simple investment strategies outperform capitalization-weighted indexes over long periods.
method Decomposed portfolio log-returns into average and excess growth components, using rank-based empirical study.
result Excess growth component, not individual stock growth, explains outperformance of naive portfolios.
Hybrid framework optimizes reinsurance using generative models and reinforcement learning.
problem Traditional reinsurance optimization relies on restrictive assumptions and static designs.
method Combines VAEs for joint distribution learning and PPO for dynamic treaty parameter adaptation.
result Hybrid method produces more resilient outcomes with higher surpluses and lower tail risk.
The paper addresses how banks adjust for capital and funding costs in incomplete markets.
problem Banks adjust for capital and funding costs in derivative pricing, but this conflicts with complete markets.
method Develops a mathematical formalism for managing derivative portfolios in incomplete markets.
result Optimal strategies for retained earnings are found to ensure sustainable dividend policies.
This paper considers optimal control problem of a large insurance company under a fixed insolvency probability. The company controls proportional reinsurance rate, dividend pay-outs and investing process to maximize the expected present value of the dividend pay-outs until the time of bankruptcy. This paper aims at des…
Generalizes optimal portfolio theory to include capital gains taxes.
problem Investment optimization in markets with capital gains taxes.
method Mathematical analysis of a specific market model with realistic tax rules.
result Closedness of attainable terminal wealth set under no unbounded non-substitutable investment condition.
Paper analyzes venture capital exit decisions under inconsistent preferences.
problem Time-inconsistent preferences in venture capital exit timing.
method Modeling four types of venture capitalists with varying levels of inconsistency.
result Time-inconsistent venture capitalists exit earlier than consistent ones.
We design an optimal strategy for investment in a portfolio of assets subject to a multiplicative Brownian motion. The strategy provides the maximal typical long-term growth rate of investor's capital. We determine the optimal fraction of capital that an investor should keep in risky assets as well as weights of differ…
Study optimizes insurance investment to maximize utility across all capital levels.
problem Maximizing expected utility across all capital levels in an insurance company's investment strategy.
method Dynamic Programming Principle and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to prove existence of optimal strategy.
result Existence of optimal investment strategy proven under certain conditions.