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Duality for optimal consumption with randomly terminating income

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  • Ashley Davey
  • Michael Monoyios
  • Harry Zheng

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We establish a rigorous duality theory, under No Unbounded Profit with Bounded Risk, for an infinite horizon problem of optimal consumption in the presence of an income stream that can terminate randomly at an exponentially distributed time, independent of the asset prices. We thus close a duality gap encountered in the Davis‐Vellekoop example in a version of this problem in a Black‐Scholes market. Many of the classical tenets of duality theory hold, with the notable exception that marginal utility at zero initial wealth is finite. We use as dual variables a class of supermartingale deflators such that deflated wealth plus cumulative deflated consumption in excess of income is a supermartingale. We show that the space of discounted local martingale deflators is dense in our dual domain, so that the dual problem can also be expressed as an infimum over the discounted local martingale deflators. We characterize the optimal wealth process, showing that optimal deflated wealth is a potential decaying to zero, while deflated wealth plus cumulative deflated consumption over income is a uniformly integrable martingale at the optimum. We apply the analysis to the Davis‐Vellekoop example and give a numerical solution.

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  • Ashley Davey & Michael Monoyios & Harry Zheng, 2021. "Duality for optimal consumption with randomly terminating income," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(4), pages 1275-1314, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:mathfi:v:31:y:2021:i:4:p:1275-1314
    DOI: 10.1111/mafi.12322
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