General drawdown based dividend control with fixed transaction costs for spectrally negative Lévy risk processes

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>For spectrally negative Lévy risk processes we consider a generalized version of the De Finetti's optimal dividend problem with fixed transaction costs, where the ruin time is replaced by a general drawdown time in the framework. We identify a condition under which a band–type impulse dividend strategy is optimal among all admissible impulse strategies. As a consequence, we are able to extend the previous results on ruin time based impulse dividend optimization problem to those on drawdown time based impulse dividend optimization problems. A new type of drawdown function is proposed at end, and various numerical examples are presented to illustrate the existence of those optimal impulse dividend strategies under different assumptions.</p>