SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.34, No.1, 329-364, 1996
On an Investment-Consumption Model with Transaction Costs
This paper considers the optimal consumption and investment policy for an investor who has available one bank account paying a fixed interest rate and n risky assets whose prices are log-normal diffusions. We suppose that transactions between the assets incur a cost proportional to the size of the transaction. The problem is to maximize the total utility of consumption. Dynamic programming leads to a variational inequality for the value function. Existence and uniqueness of a viscosity solution are proved. The variational inequality is solved by using a numerical algorithm based on policies, iterations, and multigrid methods. Numerical results are displayed for n = 1 and n = 2.
Keywords:JACOBI-BELLMAN EQUATIONS;CONTINUOUS-TIME MODEL;DIFFUSION-PROCESSES;PORTFOLIO SELECTION;OPTIMUM CONSUMPTION;VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS;RULES;FEES