The Merton Problem with a Drawdown Constraint on Consumption

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• Arun Thillaisundaram (DPMMS)
• Wednesday 24 April 2013, 16:00-17:00
• MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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We work in the framework of the Merton problem but we impose a drawdown constraint on the consumption process. This means that consumption can never fall below a fixed proportion of the running maximum of past consumption. In terms of economic motivation, this constraint represents a type of habit formation where the investor is reluctant to let his standard of living fall too far from the maximum standard achieved to date. We use techniques from stochastic optimal control and duality theory to obtain our candidate value function and optimal controls, which are then verified.

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