all the lessons will  take place at the Dept. of Computer Science - UniVr
Strada le Grazie, 15 - Verona
Ca' Vignal

located here

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Abstract and structure of the course

Optimal stopping problems are very common in economics and finance (as well as in
other fields such as sequential statistics), think for instance of choosing the best time to
sell some good (e.g. a house) or to exercise a given option. The aim of this course is
explaining in detail the main solution methods and how they can be applied to some concrete
examples coming from economics and finance. A good knowledge of probability theory and
martingales in discrete time is a very welcomed prerequisite.

The list of topics will be:

1. Optimal stopping problem (OSP): motivation and examples.
2. Solution to OSP via Snell envelop and backward induction.
3. Zero-sum stopping games (aka Dynkin games).
4. Applications to finance and economics.


References:

• Neveu, J. (1975). Discrete-parameter martingales (Vol. 10). Elsevier.
• Peskir, G., and Shiryaev, A. (2006). Optimal stopping and free-boundary problems
(pp. 123-142). Birkhäuser Basel.
• Ghemawat, P., and Nalebuff, B. (1985). Exit. The RAND Journal of Economics,
184-194.
• Solan, E., and Vieille, N. (2005). Stopping games: recent results. In Advances in
Dynamic Games (pp. 235-245). Birkhäuser Boston.

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Do not hesitate to contact me for further details: luca.dipersio@univr.it

LuCa