英文标题:
《Optimal Dynamic Procurement Policies for a Storable Commodity with
L\\\'evy Prices and Convex Holding Costs》
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作者:
Maria B. Chiarolla, Giorgio Ferrari and Gabriele Stabile
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最新提交年份:
2015
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英文摘要:
In this paper we study a continuous time stochastic inventory model for a commodity traded in the spot market and whose supply purchase is affected by price and demand uncertainty. A firm aims at meeting a random demand of the commodity at a random time by maximizing total expected profits. We model the firm\'s optimal procurement problem as a singular stochastic control problem in which controls are nondecreasing processes and represent the cumulative investment made by the firm in the spot market (a so-called stochastic \"monotone follower problem\"). We assume a general exponential L\\\'evy process for the commodity\'s spot price, rather than the commonly used geometric Brownian motion, and general convex holding costs. We obtain necessary and sufficient first order conditions for optimality and we provide the optimal procurement policy in terms of a \"base inventory\" process; that is, a minimal time-dependent desirable inventory level that the firm\'s manager must reach at any time. In particular, in the case of linear holding costs and exponentially distributed demand, we are also able to obtain the explicit analytic form of the optimal policy and a probabilistic representation of the optimal revenue. The paper is completed by some computer drawings of the optimal inventory when spot prices are given by a geometric Brownian motion and by an exponential jump-diffusion process. In the first case we also make a numerical comparison between the value function and the revenue associated to the classical static \"newsvendor\" strategy.
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中文摘要:
本文研究了在现货市场上交易的商品,其供应-购买受到价格和需求不确定性影响的连续时间随机库存模型。公司的目标是通过最大化总预期利润,在随机时间满足商品的随机需求。我们将企业的最优采购问题建模为一个奇异随机控制问题,其中控制是非减损过程,代表企业在现货市场上的累积投资(所谓的随机“单调跟随问题”)。我们假设商品的现货价格是一个一般的指数Léevy过程,而不是常用的几何布朗运动和一般的凸持有成本。我们获得了最优性的必要和充分的一阶条件,并根据“基本库存”过程给出了最优采购策略;也就是说,公司经理在任何时候都必须达到的与时间相关的最低理想库存水平。特别是,在线性持有成本和指数分布需求的情况下,我们还能够获得最优策略的显式分析形式和最优收益的概率表示。本文用计算机绘制了当现货价格由几何布朗运动和指数跳跃扩散过程给出时的最优库存。在第一种情况下,我们还对价值函数和与经典静态“报童”策略相关的收入进行了数值比较。
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分类信息:
一级分类:Mathematics 数学
二级分类:Optimization and Control 优化与控制
分类描述:Operations research, linear programming, control theory, systems theory, optimal control, game theory
运筹学,线性规划,控制论,系统论,最优控制,博弈论
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Mathematical Finance 数学金融学
分类描述:Mathematical and analytical methods of finance, including stochastic, probabilistic and functional analysis, algebraic, geometric and other methods
金融的数学和分析方法,包括随机、概率和泛函分析、代数、几何和其他方法
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Portfolio Management 项目组合管理
分类描述:Security selection and optimization, capital allocation, investment strategies and performance measurement
证券选择与优化、资本配置、投资策略与绩效评价
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