Optimal
consumption/portfolio choice with borrowing rate higher
than deposit rate
Wensheng Xu
Department of Applied Mathematics
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou
310027
P. R. China.
and
Shuping Chen
Department of Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, 310027, P. R. China.
Abstract:
In this paper, optimal consumption and investment decisions are
studied for an investor who has available a bank account and a stock
whose price is a log normal diffusion. The bank pays at an interest
rate
r(
t) for any deposit, and vice takes at a larger rate
r'(
t)for any loan. Optimal strategies are obtained via
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation which is derived from dynamic
programming principle. For the specific HARA case, we get the
optimal consumption and optimal investment explicitly, which coincides
with the classical one under the condition

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