Well-posedness of reflected BSDEs with default time and irregular barrier: An application to optimal control

Abstract

We consider a reflected backward stochastic differential equations with default time and an optional barrier in a filtration generated by a one-dimensional Brownian motion and a defaultable process. We suppose that the barrier have trajectories with left and right finite limits. We provide the existence and uniqueness result when the coefficient is scholastic Lipschitz by using a modified penalization method. Under an additional assumption of right-upper semi-continuity along stopping times on the trajectories of the barrier, we characterize the state process for such RBSDEs as the value function of an optimal stopping problem associated with a non-linear $f$-expectation.