On pre-commitment aspects of a time-consistent strategy for a mean-variance investor

F. Cong and Cornelis Oosterlee

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, vol. 70, issue C, 178-193

Abstract: In this paper, a link between a time-consistent and a pre-commitment investment strategy is established. We define an implied investment target, which is implicitly contained in a time-consistent strategy at a given time step and wealth level. By imposing the implied investment target at the initial time step on a time-consistent strategy, we form a hybrid strategy which may generate better mean-variance efficient frontiers than the time-consistent strategy. We extend the numerical algorithm proposed in Cong and Oosterlee (2016b) to solve constrained time-consistent mean-variance optimization problems. Since the time-consistent and the pre-commitment strategies generate different terminal wealth distributions, time-consistency is not always inferior to pre-commitment.

Keywords: Finance; Investment analysis; Decision analysis; Simulation; Time-consistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2016.07.010

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