A numerical approach to solve consumption-portfolio problems with predictability in income, stock prices, and house prices

Unternehmensforschung - Tập 93 - Trang 33-81 - 2020
Farina Weiss1
1Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tóm tắt

In this paper, I establish a numerical method to solve a generic consumption-portfolio choice problem with predictability in stock prices, house prices, and labor income. I generalize the SAMS method introduced by Bick et al. (Manag Sci 59:485–503, 2013) to state-dependent modifiers. I set up artificial markets to derive closed-form solutions for my life-cycle problem and transform the resulting consumption-portfolio strategies into feasible ones in the true market. To obtain transformed-feasible strategies that are close to the truly, unknown optimal strategies, I introduce state-dependent modifiers. I show that this generalization of the SAMS method reduces the welfare losses from over 10% to less than 2%.

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