Refraction-reflection strategies in the dual model

Abstract

We study the dual model with capital injection under the additional condition that the dividend strategy is absolutely continuous. We consider a refraction-reflection strategy that pays dividends at the maximal rate whenever the surplus is above a certain threshold, while capital is injected so that it stays positive. The resulting controlled surplus process becomes the spectrally positive version of the refracted-reflected process recently studied by P\'erez and Yamazaki (2015). We study various fluctuation identities of this process and prove the optimality of the refraction-reflection strategy. Numerical results on the optimal dividend problem are also given.