A diffusion model for optimal portfolio selection in the presence of brokerage fees
Mathematics of Operations Research
Portfolio selection with transaction costs
Mathematics of Operations Research
Numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time
Numerical methods for stochastic control problems in continuous time
Revenue Management of a Make-to-Stock Queue
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
50th ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE: Option Pricing: Valuation Models and Applications
Management Science
A Numerical Method for Solving Singular Stochastic Control Problems
Operations Research
Acquisition of Project-Specific Assets with Bayesian Updating
Operations Research
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Stochastic control problems in which there are no bounds on the rate of control reduce to so-called free-boundary problems in partial differential equations (PDEs). In a free-boundary problem the solution of the PDE and the domain over which the PDE must be solved need to be determined simultaneously. Examples of such stochastic control problems are singular control, optimal stopping, and impulse control problems. Application areas of these problems are diverse and include finance, economics, queuing, healthcare, and public policy. In most cases, the free-boundary problem needs to be solved numerically. In this survey, we present a recent computational method that solves these free-boundary problems. The method finds the free-boundary by solving a sequence of fixed-boundary problems. These fixed-boundary problems are relatively easy to solve numerically. We summarize and unify recent results on this moving boundary method, illustrating its application on a set of classical problems, of increasing difficulty, in finance. This survey is intended for those are primarily interested in computing numerical solutions to these problems. To this end, we include actual Matlab code for one of the problems studied, namely, American option pricing.