Optimal long term growth rate of expected utility of wealth



The Annals of Applied Probability

Optimal long term growth rate of expected utility of wealth

Wendell H. Fleming and Shuenn-Jyi Sheu

Source: Ann. Appl. Probab. Volume 9, Number 3 (1999), 871-903.

Abstract

An optimal investment policy model for the long term growth of expected utility of wealth is considered. The utility function is HARA with exponent $-\infty < \gamma < 1$. The problem can be reformulated as an infinite time horizon, risk sensitive control problem. Then the dynamic programming equations for different HARA exponents and different policy constraints are studied. We obtain some estimates for the solution of each equation. This can be used to derive an optimal policy with some interesting properties.

Primary Subjects: 90A09, 93E20
Secondary Subjects: 60H30, 90A19
Keywords: Long term growth rate; Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; risk sensitive control; dynamical programming equation; optimal policy

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Permanent link to this document: http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1029962817
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet): MR1722286
Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/aoap/1029962817
Zentralblatt MATH identifier: 0962.91036

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