Optimal Control Problems with a Stochastic Switching Time - A Marketing Application
Offered By: GERAD Research Center via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore a dynamic optimization problem in this 50-minute seminar from the Dynamic Games and Applications series. Delve into a firm's advertising strategy planning under the uncertainty of abrupt production cost increases. Learn about two approaches yielding close-form solutions to this two-stage optimal control problem: a backward approach and a heterogeneous approach using a dedicated version of the maximum principle. Examine the analytical solution in a simple case and review numerical results for the general case. Compare these findings with a scenario where the planner is unaware of the possible switching time to evaluate the importance of risk information. Gain insights from this marketing application presented by Maddalena Muttoni from the University of Padova, Italy, in collaboration with Alessandra Buratto and Luca Grosset.
Syllabus
Optimal control problems with a stochastic switching time:a marketing application, Maddalena Muttoni
Taught by
GERAD Research Center
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