3 papers
q-fin.MF2026
Merton's Problem with Recursive Perturbed Utility
Min Dai, Yuchao Dong, Yanwei Jia +1
The classical Merton investment problem predicts deterministic, state-dependent portfolio rules; however, laboratory and field evidence suggests that individuals often prefer rando…
q-fin.PM2026
Data-Driven Merton's Strategies via Policy Randomization
Min Dai, Yuchao Dong, Yanwei Jia +1
We study Merton's expected utility maximization problem in an incomplete market, characterized by a factor process in addition to the stock price process, where all the model primi…
math.OC2025
Learning to Optimally Stop Diffusion Processes, with Financial Applications
Min Dai, Yu Sun, Zuo Quan Xu +1
We study optimal stopping for diffusion processes with unknown model primitives within the continuous-time reinforcement learning (RL) framework developed by Wang et al. (2020), an…