英文标题:
《Optimal Reduction of Public Debt under Partial Observation of the
Economic Growth》
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作者:
Giorgia Callegaro, Claudia Ceci, Giorgio Ferrari
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最新提交年份:
2019
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英文摘要:
We consider a government that aims at reducing the debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio of a country. The government observes the level of the debt-to-GDP ratio and an indicator of the state of the economy, but does not directly observe the development of the underlying macroeconomic conditions. The government\'s criterion is to minimize the sum of the total expected costs of holding debt and of debt\'s reduction policies. We model this problem as a singular stochastic control problem under partial observation. The contribution of the paper is twofold. Firstly, we provide a general formulation of the model in which the level of debt-to-GDP ratio and the value of the macroeconomic indicator evolve as a diffusion and a jump-diffusion, respectively, with coefficients depending on the regimes of the economy. These are described through a finite-state continuous-time Markov chain. We reduce via filtering techniques the original problem to an equivalent one with full information (the so-called separated problem), and we provide a general verification result in terms of a related optimal stopping problem under full information. Secondly, we specialize to a case study in which the economy faces only two regimes, and the macroeconomic indicator has a suitable diffusive dynamics. In this setting we provide the optimal debt reduction policy. This is given in terms of the continuous free boundary arising in an auxiliary fully two-dimensional optimal stopping problem.
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中文摘要:
我们考虑的是一个旨在降低一国债务与国内生产总值(GDP)比率的政府。政府观察债务与国内生产总值比率的水平和经济状况的指标,但不直接观察基本宏观经济状况的发展。政府的标准是尽量减少持有债务的总预期成本和债务削减政策的总和。我们将该问题建模为部分观测下的奇异随机控制问题。本文的贡献是双重的。首先,我们提供了模型的一般公式,其中债务与GDP比率的水平和宏观经济指标的价值分别演化为扩散和跳跃扩散,系数取决于经济体制。这些都是通过有限状态连续时间马尔可夫链来描述的。我们通过过滤技术将原始问题简化为一个具有完全信息的等价问题(所谓的分离问题),并根据一个相关的完全信息下的最优停止问题给出了一般的验证结果。其次,我们专门进行了一个案例研究,其中经济只面临两种制度,宏观经济指标具有适当的扩散动力学。在这种情况下,我们提供了最佳的债务削减政策。这是根据辅助全二维最优停止问题中出现的连续自由边界给出的。
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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:Economics 经济学
二级分类:General Economics 一般经济学
分类描述:General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Economics 经济学
分类描述:q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学,包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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