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Utility maximization in an illiquid market in continuous time

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  • H. Mete Soner

    (ETH Zurich
    Swiss Finance Institute)

  • Mirjana Vukelja

    (ETH Zurich)

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A utility maximization problem in an illiquid market is studied. The financial market is assumed to have temporary price impact with finite resilience. After the formulation of this problem as a Markovian stochastic optimal control problem a dynamic programming approach is used for its analysis. In particular, the dynamic programming principle is proved and the value function is shown to be the unique discontinuous viscosity solution. This characterization is utilized to obtain numerical results for the optimal strategy and the loss due to illiquidity.

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  • H. Mete Soner & Mirjana Vukelja, 2016. "Utility maximization in an illiquid market in continuous time," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 84(2), pages 285-321, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mathme:v:84:y:2016:i:2:d:10.1007_s00186-016-0544-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s00186-016-0544-2
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