Award Abstract # 1848339
CAREER: An Approach to Pricing, Hedging, Stability, and Asymptotic Analysis in Financial Markets

NSF Org: DMS
Division Of Mathematical Sciences
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Initial Amendment Date: March 4, 2019
Latest Amendment Date: June 30, 2023
Award Number: 1848339
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Pedro Embid
pembid@nsf.gov
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DMS
 Division Of Mathematical Sciences
MPS
 Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
Start Date: September 1, 2019
End Date: August 31, 2024 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $420,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $420,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2019 = $59,890.00
FY 2020 = $62,354.00

FY 2021 = $112,002.00

FY 2022 = $115,426.00

FY 2023 = $70,328.00
History of Investigator:
  • Oleksii Mostovyi (Principal Investigator)
    oleksii.mostovyi@uconn.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Connecticut
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Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: University of Connecticut
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Storrs
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Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): WNTPS995QBM7
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Primary Program Source: 01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
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01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

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Program Reference Code(s): 1045
Program Element Code(s): 126600
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

As financial markets have not only grown but have also become very complex, understanding both their qualitative and quantitative aspects are among highly active areas of research in mathematics. This award provides methods for pricing, hedging, stability and asymptotic analysis in financial markets. These projects will further our understanding of so-called incomplete markets (i.e., the markets which have a limited capability to offset risks) and the sensitivity of such markets to different types of perturbations and trading restrictions. The topics will lead to new developments in stochastic control, convex and stochastic analysis, to novel interdisciplinary research, and results applicable in the financial industry. Graduate students and post doctoral researchers are included in the work of the project.

The first research topic is stability and asymptotic analysis of financial markets with respect to perturbations. Mathematically this topic leads to investigations of the responses of the underlying stochastic control problems to distortions of the input data. An appropriate form of parametrization for the perturbations and the corresponding value functions will allow for analysis involving only partial convexity (in one variable) of the underlying value function. Both dynamic and static formulations of the underlying stochastic control problem will be considered. The second topic is the pricing and hedging of financial instruments when additional trading constraints are imposed. This topic is connected to an investigation of the optimal investment problem with labor income, where extra trading constraints make the problem hard to analyze, and special forms of parametrization of the labor income and the value function are needed. The mathematical work relies on classical and modern results in stochastic analysis, stochastic control, finite and infinite-dimensional convex analysis, and new results to be established by the Principal Investigator.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Mostovyi, Oleksii and Sîrbu, Mihai "Quadratic expansions in optimal investment with respect to perturbations of the semimartingale model" Finance and Stochastics , v.28 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00780-024-00532-6 Citation Details
Mostovyi, Oleksii and Sîrbu, Mihai "Optimal investment and consumption with labor income in incomplete markets" Annals of Applied Probability , v.30 , 2020 10.1214/19-AAP1514 Citation Details
Mostovyi, Oleksii and Siorpaes, Pietro "Differentiation of measures on an arbitrary measurable space" Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2023.127438 Citation Details
Boese, Sarah and Cui, Tracy and Johnston, Samuel and Molino, Gianmarco and Mostovyi, Oleksii "Stability and asymptotic analysis of theFöllmer?Schweizer decomposition on a finite probability space" Involve, a Journal of Mathematics , v.13 , 2020 https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2020.13.607 Citation Details
Mostovyi, Oleksii "Asymptotic analysis of the expected utility maximization problem with respect to perturbations of the numéraire" Stochastic Processes and their Applications , v.130 , 2020 10.1016/j.spa.2020.01.003 Citation Details
Busching, William and Hintz, Delphine and Mostovyi, Oleksii and Pozdnyakov, Alexey "Fair pricing and hedging under smallperturbations of the numéraire on a finite probability space" Involve, a Journal of Mathematics , v.15 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.2140/involve.2022.15.649 Citation Details
Mostovyi, Oleksii "Stability of the Indirect Utility Process" SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics , v.12 , 2021 https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1260359 Citation Details

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