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Optimal investment, consumption and life insurance under mean-reverting returns: The complete market solution

Abstract

This paper considers the problem of optimal investment, consumption and life insurance acquisition for a wage earner who has CRRA (constant relative risk aversion) preferences. The market model is complete, continuous, the uncertainty is driven by Brownian motion and the stock price has mean reverting drift. The problem is solved by dynamic programming approach and the HJB equation is shown to have closed form solution. Numerical experiments …

Authors

Pirvu TA; Zhang H

Journal

Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 303–309

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

September 2012

DOI

10.1016/j.insmatheco.2012.05.002

ISSN

0167-6687