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Victor Duarte, Diogo Duarte, Dejanir H Silva, Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 37, Issue 11, November 2024, Pages 3217–3271, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhae043
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Abstract
We develop an algorithm for solving a large class of nonlinear high-dimensional continuous-time models in finance. We approximate value and policy functions using deep learning and show that a combination of automatic differentiation and Ito’s lemma allows for the computation of exact expectations, resulting in a negligible computational cost that is independent of the number of state variables. We illustrate the applicability of our method to problems in asset pricing, corporate finance, and portfolio choice and show that the ability to solve high-dimensional problems allows us to derive new economic insights.