A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Resolvent-Techniques for Multiple Exercise Problems




AuthorsSören Christensen, Jukka Lempa

Publication year2015

Volume71

Issue1

First page 95

Last page123

Number of pages29

ISSN0095-4616

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00245-014-9254-4


Abstract

We study optimal multiple stopping of strong Markov processes with random refraction periods. The refraction periods are assumed to be exponentially distributed with a common rate and independent of the underlying dynamics. Our main tool is using the resolvent operator. In the first part, we reduce infinite stopping problems to ordinary ones in a general strong Markov setting. This leads to explicit solutions for wide classes of such problems. Starting from this result, we analyze problems with finitely many exercise rights and explain solution methods for some classes of problems with underlying Lévy and diffusion processes, where the optimal characteristics of the problems can be identified more explicitly. We illustrate the main results with explicit examples.



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