SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.44, No.4, 1322-1344, 2005
Optimal consumption-investment problems in incomplete markets with stochastic coefficients
The goal of this paper is to solve an optimal consumption-investment problem in the context of an incomplete financial market. The model is a generalization of the Black and Scholes diffusion model, where the coefficients of the diffusion modelling the stock's price depend on some stochastic economic factors. Based on the martingale approach, a basic methodology to get the optimal solution is presented. Combining this procedure with stochastic control techniques, explicit solutions for HARA and logarithmic utility functions are obtained.
Keywords:optimal investment and consumption;incomplete markets;stochastic volatility;martingale method;optimal control;Black-Scholes model