随机利率情形下幂型期权定价问题

利用随机微分方程，鞅方法及测度变换等方法，讨论了随机利率情形下的幂型期权定价模型，并得到了随机利率情形下的幂型期权定价公式。     

倒向随机微分方程在欧式期权中的应用

假设市场为无套利市场,而且市场上只有两种证券:一种是无风险债券;一种是有风险的股票。通过自筹资策略,得到期权价格所满足的倒向随机微分方程(BSDE),利用倒向随机微分方程给出欧式期权价格概率表示;并证明欧式期权的完全套期保值性。     

基于需求方视角的武器装备价格风险防范

武器装备价格风险是指由于各种不确定性引起武器装备价格的异常波动,导致装备价格偏离其期望值的可能性。要有效防范武器装备价格风险,必须认识到武器装备价格的垄断性、波动性和链条性,进一步改进武器装备定价模式,加强目标价格管理,完善全寿命周期管理。     

一类扩散过程的最优停止

金融数学中关于美式期权的定价理论最后归结为一个对扩散过程的最优停止问题,扩散过程是特殊的马氏过程,本文讨论了当报酬函数非负时的值函数性质及其最优停时的表示。特别对带折扣的报酬的讨论,更加符合金融数学的需要     

武器装备价格形成过程中存在的问题及对策

由于在武器装备型号发展过程中,经济性调控理论、方法及相应调控机制的研究和建立并没有引起足够的重视,导致武器装备价格调控以及研制概算和购置目标价格形成过程中出现了一些影响装备经费使用效益的现实问题。推进武器装备价格形成改革,应开展装备联合论证,采用全寿命周期费用分析和管理方法,建立适应多种采购方式的分类定价机制,强化购置目标价格论证,建立成本监控机制,修订相关军品价格法规。     

几何分布定数截尾步加试验的最优设计

在逐步type-II结尾场合下,研究产品简单步进应力加速寿命试验的优化设计。假定产品服从几何分布,讨论了几何分布产品加速方程如何建立,利用次序统计量的大样本性质,得到相应的Fisher信息矩阵,以对数特征寿命极大似然估计的渐进方差最小为准则结合Fisher信息矩阵,给出了步进应力加速寿命试验的最优分配比例,通过模拟验证最优设计的有效性。     

Weibull分布竞争失效产品简单步加试验的优化设计

在逐步Type-Ⅰ混合截尾场合下,研究竞争失效产品简单步进应力加速寿命试验的优化设计。假定产品寿命服从双参数Weibull分布,在形状参数和尺度参数都未知的情形下,得到相应的Fisher信息矩阵,以极大似然渐近方差最小为准则结合Fisher信息矩阵,给出了步进应力加速寿命试验的最优应力转换时间。最后利用Monte-Carlo方法进行数值模拟,并对模拟结果进行了分析。     

寿命型产品定数截尾可靠性鉴定试验方案研究

相对于定时截尾可靠性鉴定试验方案来说,寿命型产品定数截尾试验方案方面的研究较少。首先从理论上证明了,寿命服从指数分布的产品,无论对定数截尾试验中的故障产品是否用新产品替换,其鉴定试验方案的设计公式完全相同。之后推导出了同时能满足检验上限、检验下限、生产方风险、使用方风险要求的定数截尾鉴定试验方案设计公式,并用GB5080.7中的数据验证了公式的正确性。给出了指数寿命型产品定数截尾试验中的接收概率公式,并推论出了同一产品在不同试验方案的鉴定结果可能完全相反。最后建议,应在鉴定试验前尽可能知晓产品的可靠性水平,从而可有目的地选择或设计试验方案,以求产品高概率通过鉴定试验。     

中国收费公路制度改革的利益机制设计

收费公路是我国市场化改革延伸到基础设施的重大举措。收费公路已经被作为一种商品在向市场提供,且公路特殊性,使得收费公路产业具有明显的自然垄断性。在公路收费定价优势信息的主导下,在收费公路定价方面通行者处于明显劣势地位。本文希望通过利益机制的设计来提升通行者在收费公路定价博弈中的地位,通过利益机制设计中的激励与约束使公路收费定价者会倾向于选择更公平、公正的价格。     

基于资产专用性的国防工业价格规制

在国防工业价格规制过程中,政府与企业之间存在信息不对称,国家需要根据资产专用性的差异,制定价格规制方案,借以使规制价格接近企业的成本,并给予企业合理的利润。当政府拥有关于企业资产专用性的完美信息时,最优的规制合同是固定价格合同;反之则宜采用成本加成合同;介于二者之间的情形则采取相应的激励性合同,规制者可通过提供合同菜单的方式供企业自主选择。     

Partial equilibrium in risk‐based production decisions

Characteristically, a small subset of operational problems admit risk neutrality when contingent claims methodology were used in their analysis. That is, for the majority of manufacturing and production problems, operating cash flows are not directly linked to prices of traded assets. However, to the extent that correlations can be estimated, the methodology's applicability to a broader set of operational problems is supported. Our article addresses this issue with the objective of extending the use of contingent claims techniques to a larger set of operational problems. In broad terms, this objective entails a partial equilibrium approach to the problem of valuing uncertain cash flows. To this end, we assume risk aversion and cast our approach within Merton's intertemporal capital asset pricing model. In this context, we formulate a “generic” production valuation model that is framed as an exercise in stochastic optimal control. The model is versatile in its characterization and can easily be adapted to accommodate a wide‐ranging set of risk‐based operational problems where the underlying sources of uncertainty are not traded. To obtain results, the model is recast as a stochastic dynamic program to be solved numerically. The article addresses a number of fundamental issues in the analysis risk based decision problems in operations. First, in the approach provided, decisions are analyzed under a properly defined risk structure. Second, the process of analysis leads to suitably adjusted probability distributions through which, appropriately discounted expectations are derived. Third, through consolidating existing concepts into a standard and adaptable framework, we extend the applicability of contingent claims methodology to a broader set of operational problems. The approach is advantageous as it obviates the need for exogenously specifying utility functions or discount rates.© 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2011     

On gamma estimation via matrix kriging

In financial engineering, sensitivities of derivative prices (also known as the Greeks) are important quantities in risk management, and stochastic gradient estimation methods are used to estimate them given the market parameters. In practice, the surface (function) of the Greeks with respect to the underlying parameters is much more desired, because it can be used in real‐time risk management. In this paper, we consider derivatives with multiple underlying assets, and propose three stochastic kriging‐based methods, the element‐by‐element, the importance mapping, and the Cholesky decomposition, to fit the surface of the gamma matrix that can fulfill the time constraint and the precision requirement in real‐time risk management. Numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

A note on a maximin disposal policy under nwue pricing

For the classical disposal model for selling an asset with unknown price distribution which is NWUE (new worse than used in expectation) with a given finite mean price, this note derives a policy which is maximin. The gain in using the maximin policy relative to the option of selling right away is convex decreasing in the continuation cost to mean price ratio. The relevant results of Derman, Lieberman and Ross also follow as a consequence of our analysis. Our theorem provides a practical justification of their main result on the cutoff bid for the disposal model subject to NWUE pricing.     

Technical note: Finite-time regret analysis of Kiefer-Wolfowitz stochastic approximation algorithm and nonparametric multi-product dynamic pricing with unknown demand

We consider the problem of nonparametric multi-product dynamic pricing with unknown demand and show that the problem may be formulated as an online model-free stochastic program, which can be solved by the classical Kiefer-Wolfowitz stochastic approximation (KWSA) algorithm. We prove that the expected cumulative regret of the KWSA algorithm is bounded above by where κ₁, κ₂ are positive constants and T is the number of periods for any T = 1, 2, … . Therefore, the regret of the KWSA algorithm grows in the order of , which achieves the lower bounds known for parametric dynamic pricing problems and shows that the nonparametric problems are not necessarily more difficult to solve than the parametric ones. Numerical experiments further demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed KW pricing policy by comparing with some pricing policies in the literature.     

A sequential dynamic pricing model and its applications

Consider a sequential dynamic pricing model where a seller sells a given stock to a random number of customers. Arriving one at a time, each customer will purchase one item if the product price is lower than her personal reservation price. The seller's objective is to post a potentially different price for each customer in order to maximize the expected total revenue. We formulate the seller's problem as a stochastic dynamic programming model, and develop an algorithm to compute the optimal policy. We then apply the results from this sequential dynamic pricing model to the case where customers arrive according to a continuous‐time point process. In particular, we derive tight bounds for the optimal expected revenue, and develop an asymptotically optimal heuristic policy. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2004.     

Vertically restrictive pricing in supply chains with price‐dependent demand

We examine the behavior of a manufacturer and a retailer in a decentralized supply chain under price‐dependent, stochastic demand. We model a retail fixed markup (RFM) policy, which can arise as a form of vertically restrictive pricing in a supply chain, and we examine its effect on supply chain performance. We prove the existence of the optimal pricing and replenishment policies when demand has a linear additive form and the distribution of the uncertainty component has a nondecreasing failure rate. We numerically compare the relative performance of RFM to a price‐only contract and we find that RFM results in greater profit for the supply chain than the price‐only contract in a variety of scenarios. We find that RFM can lead to Pareto‐improving solutions where both the supplier and the retailer earn more profit than under a price‐only contract. Finally, we compare RFM to a buyback contract and explore the implications of allowing the fixed markup parameter to be endogenous to the model. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006.     

Optimal pricing for a short life‐cycle product when customer price‐sensitivity varies over time

Technology products often experience a life‐cycle demand pattern that resembles a diffusion process, with weak demand in the beginning and the end of the life cycle and high demand intensity in between. The customer price‐sensitivity also changes over the life cycle of the product. We study the prespecified pricing decision for a product that exhibits such demand characteristics. In particular, we determine the optimal set of discrete prices and the times to switch from one price to another, when a limited number of price changes are allowed. Our study shows that the optimal prices and switching times show interesting patterns that depend on the product's demand pattern and the change in the customers' price sensitivity over the life cycle of the product. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2012     

Optimal pricing and inventory control policy in periodic‐review systems with fixed ordering cost and lost sales

This paper studies a periodic‐review pricing and inventory control problem for a retailer, which faces stochastic price‐sensitive demand, under quite general modeling assumptions. Any unsatisfied demand is lost, and any leftover inventory at the end of the finite selling horizon has a salvage value. The cost component for the retailer includes holding, shortage, and both variable and fixed ordering costs. The retailer's objective is to maximize its discounted expected profit over the selling horizon by dynamically deciding on the optimal pricing and replenishment policy for each period. We show that, under a mild assumption on the additive demand function, at the beginning of each period an (s,S) policy is optimal for replenishment, and the value of the optimal price depends on the inventory level after the replenishment decision has been done. Our numerical study also suggests that for a sufficiently long selling horizon, the optimal policy is almost stationary. Furthermore, the fixed ordering cost (K) plays a significant role in our modeling framework. Specifically, any increase in K results in lower s and higher S. On the other hand, the profit impact of dynamically changing the retail price, contrasted with a single fixed price throughout the selling horizon, also increases with K. We demonstrate that using the optimal policy values from a model with backordering of unmet demands as approximations in our model might result in significant profit penalty. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2006