Advanced Simulation-Based Methods for Optimal Stopping and Control: With Applications in Finance

1. Introduction 2.- Basics of Monte Carlo methods 3.- Basics of standard optimal stopping, multiple stopping, and optimal control problem 4.- Dual representations for standard optimal stopping, multiple stopping, and optimal control problems. 5.- Primal algorithms for optimal stopping problems: regression algorithms, optimization algorithms, policy iteration. Extensions to multiple stopping, examples. 6.- Multilevel primal algorithms. 7.- Multilevel dual algorithms 8.- Convergence analysis of primal algorithms. 9.- Convergence analysis of dual algorithms. 10.- Consumption based approaches. 11.- Dimension reduction for primal algorithms. 12.- Variance reduction for dual algorithms. 13.- Conclusion.