Optimal Stochastic Control, Stochastic Target Problems, and Backward SDE

• Main Author: Touzi, Nizar (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Fields Institute Monographs, 29
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Partial differential equations.; Economics, Mathematical.; Calculus of variations.; Probabilities.; Quantitative Finance.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Partial Differential Equations.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.

This book collects some recent developments in stochastic control theory with applications to financial mathematics. In the first part of the volume, standard stochastic control problems are addressed from the viewpoint of the recently developed weak dynamic programming principle. A special emphasis...