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A model of optimal consumption under liquidity risk with random trading times

  • Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires
  • Institut Universitaire de France

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Abstract

We consider a portfolio/consumption choice problem in a market model with liquidity risk. The main feature is that the investor can trade and observe stock prices only at exogenous Poisson arrival times. He may also consume continuously from his cash holdings, and his goal is to maximize his expected utility from consumption. This is a mixed discrete/continuous stochastic control problem, non-standard in the literature. The dynamic programming principle leads to a coupled system of Integro-Differential Equations (IDE), and we provide a convergent numerical algorithm for the resolution to this coupled system of IDE. Several numerical experiments illustrate the impact of the restricted liquidity trading opportunities, and we measure in particular the utility loss with respect to the classical Merton consumption problem.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)613-627
Number of pages15
JournalMathematical Finance
Volume18
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cost of liquidity
  • Integro-differential equations
  • Liquidity
  • Portfolio/consumption problem
  • Random trading times

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