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Josef Anton Strini analyzes a special stochastic optimal control problem. The problem under study arose from a dynamic cash management model in finance, where decisions about the dividend and financing policies of a firm have to be made. Additionally, using the dynamic programming approach, he extends the present discourse by the formal derivation of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and by examining the verification step carefully. Finally, the treatment is completed by solving the problem numerically.

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Optimal Control of Markov Processes.- A Singular Stochastic Control Problem.- Dynamic Programming Approach and Consequences.

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Josef Anton Strini wrote his master´s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Stefan Thonhauser at the Institute of Statistics at Graz University of Technology, Austria.

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