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The right time to sell a stock whose price is driven by Markovian noise
2004
The Annals of Applied Probability
We consider the problem of finding the optimal time to sell a stock, subject to a fixed sales cost and an exponential discounting rate ρ. We assume that the price of the stock fluctuates according to the equation dY_t=Y_t(μ dt+σξ(t) dt), where (ξ(t)) is an alternating Markov renewal process with values in ±1, with an exponential renewal time. We determine the critical value of ρ under which the value function is finite. We examine the validity of the "principle of smooth fit" and use this to
doi:10.1214/105051604000000747
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