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most citedA Non Convex Singular Stochastic Control Problem and its Related Optimal Stopping Boundaries

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math.OC2023★ 1 cited

Ergodic Mean-Field Games of Singular Control with Regime-Switching (Extended Version)

Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari, Ioannis Tzouanas

This paper studies a class of stationary mean-field games of singular stochastic control with regime-switching. The representative agent adjusts the dynamics of a Markov-modulated…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

A Stationary Mean-Field Equilibrium Model of Irreversible Investment in a Two-Regime Economy

René Aid, Matteo Basei, Giorgio Ferrari

We consider a mean-field model of firms competing à la Cournot on a commodity market, where the commodity price is given in terms of a power inverse demand function of the industry…

math.OC2023★ 3 cited

Uncertainty over Uncertainty in Environmental Policy Adoption: Bayesian Learning of Unpredictable Socioeconomic Costs

Matteo Basei, Giorgio Ferrari, Neofytos Rodosthenous

The socioeconomic impact of pollution naturally comes with uncertainty due to, e.g., current new technological developments in emissions' abatement or demographic changes. On top o…

math.OC2022

On a Merton Problem with Irreversible Healthcare Investment

Giorgio Ferrari, Shihao Zhu

We propose a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determination of optimal consumption, portfolio choice, and irreversible healthcare investment. Our model is based on Merton'…

math.OC2022

Optimal Vaccination in a SIRS Epidemic Model

Salvatore Federico, Giorgio Ferrari, Maria-Laura Torrente

We propose and solve an optimal vaccination problem within a deterministic compartmental model of SIRS type: the immunized population can become susceptible again, e.g.\ because of…

math.OC2022

A unifying framework for submodular mean field games

Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari, Markus Fischer +1

We provide an abstract framework for submodular mean field games and identify verifiable sufficient conditions that allow to prove existence and approximation of strong mean field…

math.OC2021

Optimal Dividends under Markov-Modulated Bankruptcy Level

Giorgio Ferrari, Patrick Schuhmann, Shihao Zhu

This paper proposes and studies an optimal dividend problem in which a two-state regime-switching environment affects the dynamics of the company's cash surplus and, as a novel fea…

math.OC2021★ 3 cited

Nonlinear Filtering of Partially Observed Systems arising in Singular Stochastic Optimal Control

Alessandro Calvia, Giorgio Ferrari

This paper deals with a nonlinear filtering problem in which a multi-dimensional signal process is additively affected by a process whose components have paths of bounded varia…

math.OC2021★ 8 cited

Stationary Discounted and Ergodic Mean Field Games of Singular Control

Haoyang Cao, Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari

We study stationary mean field games with singular controls in which the representative player interacts with a long-time weighted average of the population through a discounted an…

math.OC2021

Multidimensional singular control and related Skorokhod problem: sufficient conditions for the characterization of optimal controls

Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari

We characterize the optimal control for a class of singular stochastic control problems as the unique solution to a related Skorokhod reflection problem. The considered optimizatio…

math.OC2021

Two-sided Singular Control of an Inventory with Unknown Demand Trend (Extended Version)

Salvatore Federico, Giorgio Ferrari, Neofytos Rodosthenous

We study the problem of optimally managing an inventory with unknown demand trend. Our formulation leads to a stochastic control problem under partial observation, in which a Brown…

math.OC2020

Optimal Consumption with Intertemporal Substitution under Knightian Uncertainty

Giorgio Ferrari, Hanwu Li, Frank Riedel

We study an intertemporal consumption and portfolio choice problem under Knightian uncertainty in which agent's preferences exhibit local intertemporal substitution. We also allow…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Taming the spread of an epidemics by lockdown policies

Salvatore Federico, Giorgio Ferrari

We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated social costs. The main feature of our model lies in the fact that…

math.OC2020

Optimal Dividend Payout under Stochastic Discounting

Elena Bandini, Tiziano De Angelis, Giorgio Ferrari +1

Adopting a probabilistic approach we determine the optimal dividend payout policy of a firm whose surplus process follows a controlled arithmetic Brownian motion and whose cash-flo…

math.OC2020

A Knightian Irreversible Investment Problem

Giorgio Ferrari, Hanwu Li, Frank Riedel

In this paper, we study an irreversible investment problem under Knightian uncertainty. In a general framework, in which Knightian uncertainty is modeled through a set of multiple…

math.OC2019

A Singular Stochastic Control Problem with Interconnected Dynamics

Salvatore Federico, Giorgio Ferrari, Patrick Schuhmann

In this paper we study a Markovian two-dimensional bounded-variation stochastic control problem whose state process consists of a diffusive mean-reverting component and of a purely…

math.OC2019★ 2 cited

Submodular Mean Field Games: Existence and Approximation of Solutions

Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari, Markus Fischer +1

We study mean field games with scalar It{ô}-type dynamics and costs that are submodular with respect to a suitable order relation on the state and measure space. The submodularity…

math.OC2019

On a Class of Infinite-Dimensional Singular Stochastic Control Problems

Salvatore Federico, Giorgio Ferrari, Frank Riedel +1

We study a class of infinite-dimensional singular stochastic control problems with applications in economic theory and finance. The control process linearly affects an abstract evo…

math.OC2019

Nonzero-Sum Submodular Monotone-Follower Games: Existence and Approximation of Nash Equilibria

Jodi Dianetti, Giorgio Ferrari

We consider a class of N-player stochastic games of multi-dimensional singular control, in which each player faces a minimization problem of monotone-follower type with submodular…

math.OC2019

Optimal Reduction of Public Debt under Partial Observation of the Economic Growth

Giorgia Callegaro, Claudia Ceci, Giorgio Ferrari

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 indica…

math.OC2018

An Optimal Extraction Problem with Price Impact

Giorgio Ferrari, Torben Koch

A price-maker company extracts an exhaustible commodity from a reservoir, and sells it instantaneously in the spot market. In absence of any actions of the company, the commodity's…

math.OC2018

Optimal Control of Debt-to-GDP Ratio in an N-state Regime Switching Economy

Giorgio Ferrari, Neofytos Rodosthenous

We solve an infinite time-horizon bounded-variation stochastic control problem with regime switching between states. This is motivated by the problem of a government that wants…

math.OC2017

On the Singular Control of Exchange Rates

Giorgio Ferrari, Tiziano Vargiolu

Consider the problem of a central bank that wants to manage the exchange rate between its domestic currency and a foreign one. The central bank can purchase and sell the foreign cu…

math.OC2017

On a Class of Singular Stochastic Control Problems for Reflected Diffusions

Giorgio Ferrari

Reflected diffusions naturally arise in many problems from applications ranging from economics and mathematical biology to queueing theory. In this paper we consider a class of inf…