# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2021, 17(2): 733-763. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019132

## Finite horizon portfolio selection problems with stochastic borrowing constraints

 Department of Applied Mathematics & Institute of Natural Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, 17104, Republic of Korea

* Corresponding author: Junkee Jeon

Received  February 2019 Revised  April 2019 Published  October 2019

Fund Project: The first author is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (Grant No. NRF-2017R1C1B1001811)

In this paper we investigate the optimal consumption and investment problem with stochastic borrowing constraints for a finitely lived agent. To be specific, she faces a credit limit which is a constant fraction of the present value of her stochastic labor income at each time. By using the martingale approach and transformation into an infinite series of optimal stopping problems which has the same characteristic as finding the optimal exercise time of an American option. We recover the value function by establishing a duality relationship and obtain the integral equation representation solution for the optimal consumption and portfolio strategies. Moreover, we provide some numerical illustrations for optimal consumption and investment policies.

Citation: Junkee Jeon. Finite horizon portfolio selection problems with stochastic borrowing constraints. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2021, 17 (2) : 733-763. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019132
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Free boundary $z^{\star}(t)$. Parameter values are given by $\mu = 0.05, \sigma = 0.2, r = 0.01, \beta = 0.05, \gamma = 2, \mu_{I} = 0.012, \sigma_{I} = 0.1, \nu = 0.3 \;\;\mbox{and}\; T = 10$
Simulated paths of wealth to income ratio $X^{*}/I$, portfolio to income ratio $\pi^{*}/I$, consumption to income ratio $c^{*}/I$, the process $y^{*}D^{*}$, and the process $D^{*}$. Parameter values are given by $\mu = 0.05, \sigma = 0.2, r = 0.01, \beta = 0.05, \gamma = 2, \mu_{I} = 0.012, \sigma_{I} = 0.1, \nu = 0.3 \;\;\mbox{and}\; T = 30$
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