最佳股利政策和增长期权外文翻译.doc

外文翻译 原文 Optimal dividend policy and growth option Material Source:Springer-Verlag 2006 Author:Jean-Paul Decamps·Stephane Villeneuve Research on optimal dividend payouts for a cash constrained firm is based on the premise that the firm wants to pay some of its surplus to the shareholders as dividends and therefore follows a dividend policy that maximizes the expected present value of all payouts until bankruptcy. This approach has been used in particular to determine the market value of a firm which, in line with Modigliani and Miller [23], is defined as the present value of the sum of future dividends. In diffusion models, the optimal dividend policy can be determined as the solution of a singular stochastic control problem. In two influential papers, Jeanblanc and Shiryaev [18] and Radner and Shepp [26] assume that the firm exploits a technology defined by a cash generating process that follows a drifted Brownian motion. They show that the optimal dividend policy is characterized by a threshold so that whenever the cash reserve goes above this threshold, the excess is paid out as dividend. Models that involve singular stochastic controls or mixed singular/regular stochastic controls are now widely used in mathematical finance. Recent contributions have for instance emphasized restrictions imposed by a regulatory agency [25], the interplay between dividend and risk policies [1, 3, 14], or the analysis of hedging and insurance decisions [27]. A new class of models that combine features of both regular stochastic control and optimal stopping has recently emerged. Two recent papers in this line are Miao and Wang [22], who study the interactions between investment and consumption under incomplete markets, and Hugonnier et al. [16], who focus on irreversible investment for a representative agent in a general equilibrium framework. From a mathematical viewpoint, the problem we are interested in is different and combines features of both sin