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General Intensity Shapes in Optimal Liquidation

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  • Olivier Gu\'eant
  • Charles-Albert Lehalle

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The classical literature on optimal liquidation, rooted in Almgren-Chriss models, tackles the optimal liquidation problem using a trade-off between market impact and price risk. Therefore, it only answers the general question of the optimal liquidation rhythm. The very question of the actual way to proceed with liquidation is then rarely dealt with. Our model, that incorporates both price risk and non-execution risk, is an attempt to tackle this question using limit orders. The very general framework we propose to model liquidation generalizes the existing literature on optimal posting of limit orders. We consider a risk-adverse agent whereas the model of Bayraktar and Ludkovski only tackles the case of a risk-neutral one. We consider very general functional forms for the execution process intensity, whereas Gu\'eant et al. is restricted to exponential intensity. Eventually, we link the execution cost function of Almgren-Chriss models to the intensity function in our model, providing then a way to see Almgren-Chriss models as a limit of ours.

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Date of revision: Jun 2013
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Cited by:

  1. Saran Ahuja & George Papanicolaou & Weiluo Ren & Tzu-Wei Yang, 2016. "Limit order trading with a mean reverting reference price," Papers 1607.00454, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2016.
  2. Rama Cont & Arseniy Kukanov, 2012. "Optimal order placement in limit order markets," Working Papers hal-00737491, HAL.
  3. Roman Gayduk & Sergey Nadtochiy, 2016. "Endogenous Formation of Limit Order Books: Dynamics Between Trades," Papers 1605.09720, arXiv.org, revised Jun 2017.
  4. Pierre Cardaliaguet & Charles-Albert Lehalle, 2016. "Mean Field Game of Controls and An Application To Trade Crowding," Papers 1610.09904, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2017.
  5. Xuefeng Gao & S. J. Deng, 2014. "Hydrodynamic limit of order book dynamics," Papers 1411.7502, arXiv.org, revised Feb 2016.
  6. Jean-David Fermanian & Olivier Gu\'eant & Jiang Pu, 2015. "The behavior of dealers and clients on the European corporate bond market: the case of Multi-Dealer-to-Client platforms," Papers 1511.07773, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2017.
  7. Etienne Chevalier & Vathana Ly Vath & Simone Scotti & Alexandre Roch, 2016. "Optimal Execution Cost For Liquidation Through A Limit Order Market," International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(01), pages 01-26.
  8. Olivier Gu\'eant, 2016. "Optimal market making," Papers 1605.01862, arXiv.org, revised May 2017.
  9. Rama Cont & Arseniy Kukanov, 2012. "Optimal order placement in limit order markets," Papers 1210.1625, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2014.

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