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Discretionary stopping of one-dimensional Itô diffusions with a staircase reward function
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
Abstract
We consider the problem of optimally stopping a general one-dimensional Itô diffusion X. In particular, we solve the problem that aims at maximising the performance criterion Ex[exp(-∫0τr(Xs)ds)f(Xτ)] over all stopping times τ, where the reward function f can take only a finite number of values and has a ‘staircase’ form. This problem is partly motivated by applications to financial asset pricing. Our results are of an explicit analytic nature and completely characterise the optimal stopping time. Also, it turns out that the problem's value function is not C1, which is due to the fact that the reward function f is not continuous.
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Current address: Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléotoires, Université Paris 6, 175 rue du Chevaleret, Paris, 75013, France. Email address: [email protected]
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