Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1156186 | Stochastic Processes and their Applications | 2009 | 31 Pages |
Abstract
We study finite horizon optimal switching problems for hidden Markov chain models with point process observations. The controller possesses a finite range of strategies and attempts to track the state of the unobserved state variable using Bayesian updates over the discrete observations. Such a model has applications in economic policy making, staffing under variable demand levels and generalized Poisson disorder problems. We show regularity of the value function and explicitly characterize an optimal strategy. We also provide an efficient numerical scheme and illustrate our results with several computational examples.
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Authors
Erhan Bayraktar, Michael Ludkovski,