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Smooth solutions to portfolio liquidation problems under price-sensitive market impact

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  • Graewe, Paulwin
  • Horst, Ulrich
  • Séré, Eric

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We consider the stochastic control problem of a financial trader that needs to unwind a large asset portfolio within a short period of time. The trader can simultaneously submit active orders to a primary market and passive orders to a dark pool. Our framework is flexible enough to allow for price-dependent impact functions describing the trading costs in the primary market and price-dependent adverse selection costs associated with dark pool trading. We prove that the value function can be characterized in terms of the unique smooth solution to a PDE with singular terminal value, establish its explicit asymptotic behavior at the terminal time, and give the optimal trading strategy in feedback form.

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  • Graewe, Paulwin & Horst, Ulrich & Séré, Eric, 2018. "Smooth solutions to portfolio liquidation problems under price-sensitive market impact," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 128(3), pages 979-1006.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:128:y:2018:i:3:p:979-1006
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2017.06.013
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