Title :
Optimal selling rules in a regime switching model
Author :
Guo, X. ; Zhang, Q.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Oper. Res. & Ind. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
In this note, we derive optimal selling rules under a regime switching model. The optimal stopping rule is of a threshold type for each state, derived via the "modified smooth fit." The proof is via the martingale theory. Numerical examples are reported to demonstrate the dependence of threshold levels with various parameters and to compare our result with some suboptimal selling rules.
Keywords :
Markov processes; investment; optimisation; Markov process; martingale theory; optimal selling rules; optimal stopping rule; regime switching model; suboptimal selling rules; Character generation; Context modeling; Diffusion processes; Industrial engineering; Instruction sets; Mathematics; Operations research; Pricing; Time measurement; Markov process; optimal stopping; regime switching; smooth fit;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAC.2005.854657