Policy Gradient Learning Methods for Stochastic Control with Exit Time and Applications to Share Repurchase Pricing

Mohamed Hamdouche, Pierre Henry-Labordere and Huyên Pham

Applied Mathematical Finance, 2022, vol. 29, issue 6, 439-456

Abstract: We develop policy gradients methods for stochastic control with exit time in a model-free setting. We propose two types of algorithms for learning either directly the optimal policy or by learning alternately the value function (critic) and the optimal control (actor). The use of randomized policies is crucial for overcoming notably the issue related to the exit time in the gradient computation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by implementing our numerical schemes in the application to the problem of share repurchase pricing. Our results show that the proposed policy gradient methods outperform PDE or other neural networks techniques in a model-based setting. Furthermore, our algorithms are flexible enough to incorporate realistic market conditions like, e.g., price impact or transaction costs.

Date: 2022
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