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EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS OF CONSUMPTION‐INVESTMENT PROBLEMS IN FINANCIAL MARKETS WITH REGIME SWITCHING
Author(s) -
Sotomayor Luz Rocío,
Cadenillas Abel
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mathematical finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.98
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1467-9965
pISSN - 0960-1627
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9965.2009.00366.x
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , economics , financial market , investment (military) , asset (computer security) , markov chain , expected utility hypothesis , complete market , microeconomics , incomplete markets , monetary economics , financial economics , econometrics , finance , social science , computer security , machine learning , sociology , politics , political science , computer science , law
We consider a consumption and investment problem where the market presents different regimes. An investor taking decisions continuously in time selects a consumption–investment policy to maximize his expected total discounted utility of consumption. The market coefficients and the investor's utility of consumption are dependent on the regime of the financial market, which is modeled by an observable finite‐state continuous‐time Markov chain. We obtain explicit optimal consumption and investment policies for specific HARA utility functions. We show that the optimal policy depends on the regime. We also make an economic analysis of the solutions, and show that for every investor the optimal proportion to allocate in the risky asset is greater in a “bull market” than in a “bear market.” This behavior is not affected by the investor's risk preferences. On the other hand, the optimal consumption to wealth ratio depends not only on the regime, but also on the investor's risk tolerance: high risk‐averse investors will consume relatively more in a “bull market” than in a “bear market,” and the opposite is true for low risk‐averse investors.