Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance

This paper studies stochastic linear-quadratic control with a time-inconsistent objective and worst-case drift disturbance. We allow the agent to introduce disturbances to reflect her uncertainty about the drift coefficient of the controlled state process. We adopt a two-step equilibrium control app...

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मुख्य लेखकों: Han, Bingyan, Pun, Chi Seng, Wong, Hoi Ying
अन्य लेखक: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
स्वरूप: Journal Article
भाषा:English
प्रकाशित: 2022
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ऑनलाइन पहुंच:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163191
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author Han, Bingyan
Pun, Chi Seng
Wong, Hoi Ying
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description This paper studies stochastic linear-quadratic control with a time-inconsistent objective and worst-case drift disturbance. We allow the agent to introduce disturbances to reflect her uncertainty about the drift coefficient of the controlled state process. We adopt a two-step equilibrium control approach to characterize the robust time-consistent controls, which can preserve the order of preference. Under a general framework allowing random parameters, we derive a sufficient condition for equilibrium controls using the forward-backward stochastic differential equation approach. We also provide analytical solutions to mean-variance portfolio problems for various settings. Our empirical studies confirm the improvement in portfolio’s performance in terms of out-of-sample Sharpe ratio by incorporating with robustness.
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spelling ntu-10356/1631912022-11-28T07:04:06Z Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance Han, Bingyan Pun, Chi Seng Wong, Hoi Ying School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Science::Mathematics Robust Control Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control This paper studies stochastic linear-quadratic control with a time-inconsistent objective and worst-case drift disturbance. We allow the agent to introduce disturbances to reflect her uncertainty about the drift coefficient of the controlled state process. We adopt a two-step equilibrium control approach to characterize the robust time-consistent controls, which can preserve the order of preference. Under a general framework allowing random parameters, we derive a sufficient condition for equilibrium controls using the forward-backward stochastic differential equation approach. We also provide analytical solutions to mean-variance portfolio problems for various settings. Our empirical studies confirm the improvement in portfolio’s performance in terms of out-of-sample Sharpe ratio by incorporating with robustness. Ministry of Education (MOE) Bingyan Han is supported by UIC Start-up Research Fund (Reference No: R72021109). Chi Seng Pun gratefully acknowledges the Ministry of Education (MOE), AcRF Tier 2 Grant (Reference No: MOE2017-T2-1-044) for the funding of this research. Hoi Ying Wong acknowledges the support from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong via GRF 14303915. 2022-11-28T07:04:06Z 2022-11-28T07:04:06Z 2022 Journal Article Han, B., Pun, C. S. & Wong, H. Y. (2022). Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance. Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 86(1), 4-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00245-022-09871-2 0095-4616 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163191 10.1007/s00245-022-09871-2 2-s2.0-85131735601 1 86 4 en MOE2017-T2-1-044 Applied Mathematics and Optimization © 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
spellingShingle Science::Mathematics
Robust Control
Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control
Han, Bingyan
Pun, Chi Seng
Wong, Hoi Ying
Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title_full Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title_fullStr Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title_full_unstemmed Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title_short Robust time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic control with drift disturbance
title_sort robust time inconsistent stochastic linear quadratic control with drift disturbance
topic Science::Mathematics
Robust Control
Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Control
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163191
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