Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88724 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
SAFE Working Paper No. 16
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We consider the continuous-time portfolio optimization problem of an investor with constant relative risk aversion who maximizes expected utility of terminal wealth. The risky asset follows a jump-diffusion model with a diffusion state variable. We propose an approximation method that replaces the jumps by a diffusion and solve the resulting problem analytically. Furthermore, we provide explicit bounds on the true optimal strategy and the relative wealth equivalent loss that do not rely on results from the true model. We apply our method to a calibrated affine model and find that relative wealth equivalent losses are below 1.16% if the jump size is stochastic and below 1% if the jump size is constant and ... 5. We perform robustness checks for various levels of risk-aversion, expected jump size, and jump intensity.
Subjects: 
Optimal investment
jumps
stochastic volatility
welfare loss
JEL: 
G11
C63
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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