Optimal ratcheting of dividends in a Brownian risk model

Hansjoerg Albrecher, Pablo Azcue and Nora Muler

Abstract: We study the problem of optimal dividend payout from a surplus process governed by Brownian motion with drift under the additional constraint of ratcheting, i.e. the dividend rate can never decrease. We solve the resulting two-dimensional optimal control problem, identifying the value function to be the unique viscosity solution of the corresponding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. For finitely many admissible dividend rates we prove that threshold strategies are optimal, and for any finite continuum of admissible dividend rates we establish the $\varepsilon$-optimality of curve strategies. This work is a counterpart of Albrecher et al. (2020), where the ratcheting problem was studied for a compound Poisson surplus process with drift. In the present Brownian setup, calculus of variation techniques allow to obtain a much more explicit analysis and description of the optimal dividend strategies. We also give some numerical illustrations of the optimality results.

Date: 2020-12
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