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Optimal control of ordinary and partial differential equations
On the Design of Optimal Health Insurance Contracts under Ex Post Moral Hazard
Participant : Pierre Martinon.
With Pierre Picard and Anasuya Raj, Ecole Polytechnique.
We analyze in [27] the design of optimal medical insurance under ex post moral hazard, i.e., when illness severity cannot be observed by insurers and policyholders decide on their health expenditures. We characterize the trade-o§ between ex ante risk sharing and ex post incentive compatibility, in an optimal revelation mechanism under hidden information and risk aversion. We establish that the optimal contract provides partial insurance at the margin, with a deductible when insurersí rates are a§ected by a positive loading, and that it may also include an upper limit on coverage. We show that the potential to audit the health state leads to an upper limit on out-of-pocket expenses.
Optimal control of infinite dimensional bilinear systems: application to the heat and wave equations
Participants : J. Frédéric Bonnans, Axel Kröner.
With Soledad Aronna, FGV, Rio de Janeiro. In this paper [13] we consider second order optimality conditions for a bilinear optimal control problem governed by a strongly continuous semigroup operator, the control entering linearly in the cost function. We derive first and second order optimality conditions, taking advantage of the Goh transform. We then apply the results to the heat and wave equations.
Optimal control of PDEs in a complex space setting; application to the Schrödinger equation
Participants : J. Frédéric Bonnans, Axel Kröner.
With Soledad Aronna, FGV, Rio de Janeiro. This paper [22] presents some optimality conditions for abstract optimization problems over complex spaces. We then apply these results to optimal control problems with a semigroup structure. As an application we detail the case when the state equation is the Schrödinger one, with pointwise constraints on the "bilinear'" control. We derive first and second order optimality conditions and address in particular the case that the control enters the state equation and cost function linearly.
Approximation and reduction of optimal control problems in infinite dimension
Participant : Axel Kröner.
With Michael D. Chekroun, UCLA) and H. Liu, Virginia Tech. Nonlinear optimal control problems in infinite dimensions are considered for which we establish approximation theorems and reduction procedures. Approximation theorems and reduction procedures are available in the literature. The originality of our approach relies on a combination of Galerkin approximation techniques with reduction techniques based on finite-horizon parameterizing manifolds. The numerical approximation of the control in a feedback form based on Hamilton-Jacobi-Equation become also affordable within this approach. The approach is applied to optimal control problems of delay differential equations and nonlinear parabolic equations.