From optimal martingales to randomized dual optimal stopping
Authors
- Belomestny, Denis
- Schoenmakers, John G. M.
ORCID: 0000-0002-4389-8266
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 60G40 65C05 91G60
Keywords
- Optimal stopping problem, Doob-martingale, randomization
Abstract
In this article we study and classify optimal martingales in the dual formulation of optimal stopping problems. In this respect we distinguish between weakly optimal and surely optimal martingales. It is shown that the family of weakly optimal and surely optimal martingales may be quite large. On the other hand it is shown that the Doob-martingale, that is, the martingale part of the Snell envelope, is in a certain sense the most robust surely optimal martingale under random perturbations. This new insight leads to a novel randomized dual martingale minimization algorithm that does`nt require nested simulation. As a main feature, in a possibly large family of optimal martingales the algorithm efficiently selects a martingale that is as close as possible to the Doob martingale. As a result, one obtains the dual upper bound for the optimal stopping problem with low variance.
Appeared in
- Quant. Finance, (2023), published online on 19.06.2023, DOI 10.1080/14697688.2023.2223242 .
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