Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Time

Professor Chang received his BS from National Taiwan University, holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Mathematics from State University of New York at Stony Brook. His graduate-level courses include price theory sequence and mathematical economics (stochastic control theory and applications, economics of uncertainty). He has been an invited visiting scholar to the Center for Economic Studies (CES) of the University of Munich, Germany, and the Economic Research Center (ERC) of Nagoya Univeristy, Japan. He is also a recipient of the 1986 Outstanding Junior Faculty Awards of Indiana University, a recipient of the 2004 IU Trustees Teaching Awards, and a research fellow of the CESifo Research Network. Professor Chang has published papers in prestigious journals in economics and mathematics, including Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, the Proceedings of American Mathematical Society, and the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. In 2004 he published Stochastic Optimization in Continuous Time with Cambridge University Press.

List of figures; Preface; 1. Probability theory; 2. Wiener processes; 3. Stochastic calculus; 4. Stochastic dynamic programming; 5. How to solve it; 6. Boundaries and absorbing barriers; Appendix. Miscellaneous applications and exercises; Bibliography; Index.