Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22260 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2003,46
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
In this survey, we show that various stochastic optimization problems arising in option theory, in dynamical allocation problems, and in the microeconomic theory of intertemporal consumption choice can all be reduced to the same problem of representing a given stochastic process in terms of running maxima of another process. We describe recent results of Bank and El Karoui (2002) on the general stochastic representation problem, derive results in closed form for Lévy processes and diffusions, present an algorithm for explicit computations, and discuss some applications.
Subjects: 
American options
Gittins index
multi-armed bandits
optimal consumption plans
optimal stopping
representation theorem
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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