Equilibrium Mean-Variance Dividend Rate Strategies

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Main Authors: Cao, Jingyi, Li, Dongchen, Young, Virginia R., Zou, Bin
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Published: 2025
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author Cao, Jingyi
Li, Dongchen
Young, Virginia R.
Zou, Bin
author_facet Cao, Jingyi
Li, Dongchen
Young, Virginia R.
Zou, Bin
contents This paper studies an optimal dividend problem for a company that aims to maximize the mean-variance (MV) objective of the accumulated discounted dividend payments up to its ruin time. The MV objective involves an integral form over a random horizon that depends endogenously on the company's dividend strategy, and these features lead to a novel time-inconsistent control problem. To address the time inconsistency, we seek a time-consistent equilibrium dividend rate strategy. We first develop and prove a new verification lemma that characterizes the value function and equilibrium strategy by an extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman system. Next, we apply the verification lemma to obtain the equilibrium strategy and show that it is a barrier strategy for small levels of risk aversion.
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spellingShingle Equilibrium Mean-Variance Dividend Rate Strategies
Cao, Jingyi
Li, Dongchen
Young, Virginia R.
Zou, Bin
Optimization and Control
Mathematical Finance
93E20, 91G50, 91B30, 91G05
This paper studies an optimal dividend problem for a company that aims to maximize the mean-variance (MV) objective of the accumulated discounted dividend payments up to its ruin time. The MV objective involves an integral form over a random horizon that depends endogenously on the company's dividend strategy, and these features lead to a novel time-inconsistent control problem. To address the time inconsistency, we seek a time-consistent equilibrium dividend rate strategy. We first develop and prove a new verification lemma that characterizes the value function and equilibrium strategy by an extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman system. Next, we apply the verification lemma to obtain the equilibrium strategy and show that it is a barrier strategy for small levels of risk aversion.
title Equilibrium Mean-Variance Dividend Rate Strategies
topic Optimization and Control
Mathematical Finance
93E20, 91G50, 91B30, 91G05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12047