Optimizing the terminal wealth under partial information: The drift process as a continuous time Markov chain |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">J?rn?SassEmail author Ulrich?G?Haussmann |
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Institution: | (1) RICAM, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, BC, V6T 1Z2 Vancouver, Canada |
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Abstract: | We consider a multi-stock market model where prices satisfy a stochastic differential equation with instantaneous rates of return modeled as a continuous time Markov chain with finitely many states. Partial observation means that only the prices are observable. For the investors objective of maximizing the expected utility of the terminal wealth we derive an explicit representation of the optimal trading strategy in terms of the unnormalized filter of the drift process, using HMM filtering results and Malliavin calculus. The optimal strategy can be determined numerically and parameters can be estimated using the EM algorithm. The results are applied to historical prices.Received: March 2004, Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):
91B28, 60G44JEL Classification:
G11Supported by NSERC under research grant 88051 and NCE grant 30354. |
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Keywords: | Portfolio optimization partial information continuous time Markov chain HMM filtering stochastic interest rates |
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