An Overview of Optimal Life Insurance Purchase, Consumption and Investment Problems

We provide an extension to Merton's famous continuous time model of optimal consumption and investment, in the spirit of previous works by Pliska and Ye, to allow for a wage earner to have a random lifetime and to use a portion of the income to purchase life insurance in order to provide for hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isabel Duarte (author)
Other Authors: Diogo Pinheiro (author), Alberto A. Pinto (author), Stanley R. Pliska (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/101734
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/101734