Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Optimal Control of Marked Point Processes

Abstract

We study a class of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by a random measure or, equivalently, by a marked point process. Under appropriate assumptions we prove well-posedness and continuous dependence of the solution on the data. We next address optimal control problems for point processes of general non-Markovian type and show that BSDEs can be used to prove existence of an optimal control and to represent the value function. Finally we introduce a Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation, also stochastic and of backward type, for this class of control problems: when the state space is finite or countable we show that it admits a unique solution which identifies the (random) value function and can be represented by means of the BSDEs introduced above.

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