Risk-sensitive optimal stopping with unbounded terminal cost function

Abstract

In this paper we consider an infinite time horizon risk-sensitive optimal stopping problem for a Feller-Markov process with an unbounded terminal cost function. We show that in the unbounded case an associated Bellman equation may have multiple solutions and we give a probabilistic interpretation for the minimal and the maximal one. Also, we show how to approximate them using finite time horizon problems. The analysis, covering both discrete and continuous time case, is supported with illustrative examples.