States are increasingly turning to environmental taxes as a means of raising revenue. These taxes are often thought to generate a double dividend: an environmental dividend stemming from the environmental improvement, and an economic dividend resulting from use of the revenue from environmental taxes to reduce other distortionary taxes (e.g., income or sales taxes). We review the economic liter...

This paper develops numerical methods for finding optimal dividend pay-out and reinsurance policies. A generalized singular control formulation of surplus and discounted payoff function is introduced, where the surplus is modeled by a regime-switching process subject to both regular and singular controls. To approximate the value function and optimal controls, Markov chain approximation techniq...

In the dual risk model, we study periodic dividend problem with a non-exponential discount function which results in time-inconsistent control problem. Viewing it within game theoretic framework, extend Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) system of equations from fixed terminal to time ruin and derive verification theorem, generalize theory classical optimal dividend. Und...

The impulse optimal control problem is an important research area in recent years. Baccarin [1] discussed the optimal control of a multidimensional cash management system where the cash balances fluctuated as a homogeneous diffusion process in Rn. They formulated the model as an impulse control problem on an unbounded domain with unbounded cost functions. Under general assumptions they characte...

Based on different objectives, various insurance risk models with adaptive polices have been proposed, such as dividend model, tax model, model with credibility premium, and so on. In this report, we will only focus the study on dividend strategies. Here are some reasons why the dividend strategy is of interest. For an insurance company, ruin occurs when a claim size is greater than its reserve...

We develop an agency model of financial contracting. We derive long-term debt, a line of credit, and equity as optimal securities, capturing the debt coupon and maturity; the interest rate and limits on the credit line; inside versus outside equity; dividend policy; and capital structure dynamics. The optimal debt-equity ratio is history dependent, but debt and credit line terms are independent...

In this paper we investigate the problem of optimal dividend distribution in the presence of regime shifts. We consider a company whose cumulative net revenues evolve as a drifted Brownian motion modulated by a finite state Markov chain, and model the discount rate as a deterministic function of the current state of the chain. The objective is to maximize the expected cumulative discounted divi...

I present a theory of the optimal capital structure and dividend policy for family business groups expanding in countries where the private control benefit is substantial and the market for corporate control is active. Here, issuing debt overcomes the limited dilution capacity of equity, but reduces the expected control benefit by increasing the probability of default. When family business grou...