Robust utility functionals arise as numerical representations of investor preferences, when the investor is uncertain about the underlying probabilistic model and averse against both risk and model uncertainty...
Keywords: portfolio optimization, model uncertainty, Knightian uncertainty, coherent risk measures, convex duality
03/2005 | Statistics & Decisions, Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagWe give an explicit PDE characterization for the solution of a robust utility maximization problem in an incomplete market model, whose volatility, interest rate process, and long-term trend are driven by an external stochastic factor process...
Keywords: optimal investment, model uncertainty, incomplete markets, stochastic volatility, coherent risk measures
01/2006 | Statistics & Decisions, Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagObjectives: We illustrate a recently proposed two-step bootstrap model averaging (bootstrap MA) approach to cope with model selection uncertainty...
Keywords: model uncertainty, bootstrap model averaging,variable selection, prediction
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer