Optimal consumption and investment with Lévy processes

We study the intertemporal consumption and investment problem in a continuous time setting when the security prices follow a Geometric Lévy process. Using stochastic calculus for semimartingales we obtain conditions for the existence of optimal consumption policies. Also, we give a charaterization o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: José Fajardo Barbachan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2003-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402003000400008