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- Title
Optimal Retirement Under Partial Information.
- Authors
Chen, Kexin; Jeon, Junkee; Wong, Hoi Ying
- Abstract
The optimal retirement decision is an optimal stopping problem when retirement is irreversible. We investigate the optimal consumption, investment, and retirement decisions when the mean return of a risky asset is unobservable and is estimated by filtering from historical prices. To ensure nonnegativity of the consumption rate and the borrowing constraints on the wealth process of the representative agent, we conduct our analysis using a duality approach. We link the dual problem to American option pricing with stochastic volatility and prove that the duality gap is closed. We then apply our theory to a hidden Markov model for regime-switching mean return with Bayesian learning. We fully characterize the existence and uniqueness of variational inequality in the dual optimal stopping problem, as well as the free boundary of the problem. An asymptotic closed-form solution is derived for optimal retirement timing by small-scale perturbation. We discuss the potential applications of the results to other partial-information settings.
- Subjects
HIDDEN Markov models; RETIREMENT; INTEREST rates; PRICES; RETURN on assets; FOOD prices; EMPLOYEE education
- Publication
Mathematics of Operations Research, 2022, Vol 47, Issue 3, p1802
- ISSN
0364-765X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/moor.2021.1189