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48 results for 2nd order economic variables

The study examines how market trade randomness influences price and return volatility.

problem The accuracy of predicting market-based volatilities and macroeconomic variables is limited.
method Analyzes time series of trade values and volumes, and develops econometric methodologies for predicting volatilities.
result Current macroeconomic models underestimate the accuracy of predicting market-based volatilities and macroeconomic variables.

Price and return predictions are limited by economic complexity, not just volatility.

problem Limited accuracy of price and return probability forecasts by Gaussian distributions.
method Analyzes economic reasons behind limitations in predicting price and return statistical moments.
result Predictions of price and return probabilities by Gaussian distributions are inaccurate due to economic complexity.

We observe that the iterated tangent group of a Lie group may be realized as a double cross product of the 2nd order tangent group, with the Lie algebra of the base Lie group. Based on this observation, we derive the 2nd order Euler-Lagrange equations on the 2nd order tangent group from the 1st order Euler-Lagrange equ…

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Second-order economic theory considers new variables to improve price volatility predictions.

problem Current economic models focus on first-order variables, missing second-order variables that affect price volatility.
method Introduces second-order economic theory with new variables composed of sums of squares of agents' transactions.
result Second-order economic theory complements first-order variables and introduces new macroeconomic variables.

Paper analyzes coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors in an economic system.

problem Existence of coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors in economic systems.
method Integer and fractional order analysis of an economic system.
result Integer-order system exhibits multiple combinations of coexisting hidden and self-excited attractors.

Natural gradient descent is an optimization method traditionally motivated from the perspective of information geometry, and works well for many applications as an alternative to stochastic gradient descent. In this paper we critically analyze this method and its properties, and show how it can be viewed as a type of 2…

2014-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Current economic theories miss most of economic dynamics.

problem Accuracy of economic theories and policies depend on economic variables and processes.
method Identify and analyze overlooked economic variables and processes.
result Many economic variables and processes not accounted for in current theories.

We solve the metrisability problem for the six Painlevé equations, and more generally for all 2nd order ODEs with Painlevé property, and determine for which of these equations their integral curves are geodesics of a (pseudo) Riemannian metric on a surface.

2016-04-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Econophysics is a new research field, which makes an attempt to bring economics in the fold of natural sciences or specifically attempts for a "physics of economics". The term Econophysics was formally born in Kolkata in 1995. The entry on Econophysics in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Ed., Vol 2, Macmil…

2010-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

These are lecture notes of the Summer school on the geometry of differential equations held in Nordfjordeid, Norway in 1996. They cover geometric structures related to scalar second order ODEs, the construction of the associated Cartan connection, techniques for computing invariants of differential equations starting f…

2016-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling business cycles via collective risk fluctuations in economic agents' risk space.

problem Understanding and predicting business cycles through economic agents' risk dynamics.
method Continuous numerical risk grades for economic agents, modeling collective economic variables and flows as functions of risk coordinates, deriving equations for their evolution.
result Business and credit cycles are explained as fluctuations of collective economic variables and their mean risks in the risk space of economic agents.

Productions functions map the inputs of a firm or a productive system onto its outputs. This article expounds generalizations of the production function that include state variables, organizational structures and increasing returns to scale. These extensions are needed in order to explain the regularities of the empiri…

2005-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide five examples of conformal geometries which are naturally associated with ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The first example describes a one-to-one correspondence between the Wuenschmann class of 3rd order ODEs considered modulo contact transformations of variables and (local) 3-dimensional conformal …

2004-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove new results on existence of solutions for the prescribed gaussian curvature problem on the euclidean sphere S^2. Those results are achieved by relating this problem with the holomorphic triples theory on Riemann surfaces. We think this approach might be applied to study some other semi-linear elliptic equation…

2015-03-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes a new model for predicting and analyzing economic variables.

problem Predicting and analyzing economic variables in developed regions.
method Time-varying parameter global vector autoregressive (TVP-GVAR) framework combined with machine learning models.
result The proposed model provides high precision out-of-sample predictions and novel insights into economic variable connectedness.

We formulate thermodynamics of economic systems in terms of an arbitrary probability distribution for a conserved economic quantity. As in statistical physics, thermodynamic macroeconomic variables emerge as the mean value of microeconomic variables and their determination is reduced to the computation of the partition…

2009-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Study uses remotely sensed data to infer economic outcomes in experiments and quasi-experiments.

problem Imperfect measurement of economic outcomes by remotely sensed variables.
method Combines experimental and observational data to identify causal parameters, using satellite imagery and mobile phone activity.
result Developed a robust method for n^{-1/2} inference that does not restrict remotely sensed variable processing algorithms.

We introduce and compare new variability measures based on risk quantiles.

problem Comparing variability measures in risk management.
method Developed a framework for one-parameter families of inter-Expected Shortfall differences and inter-expectile differences.
result Characterized symmetric and comonotonic variability measures as mixtures of inter-Expected Shortfall differences.

Economics does not need a scientific revolution. Economics needs accurate measurements according to high standards of natural sciences and meticulous work on revealing empirical relationships between measured variables.

2009-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper provides an attempt to formalize Hayek's notion of spontaneous order within the framework of the Arrow-Debreu economy. Our study shows that if a competitive economy is enough fair and free, then a spontaneous economic order shall emerge in long-run competitive equilibria so that social members together occup…

2012-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we consider the cohomology of a closed arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold with coefficients in the local system defined by the even symmetric powers of the standard representation of SL(2,C). The cohomology is defined over the integers and is a finite abelian group. We show that the order of the 2nd cohomol…

2011-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian MS-VAR model for pricing equity-linked life insurance products.

problem Pricing and hedging equity-linked life insurance products on maximum of several assets.
method Introduces Bayesian Markov-Switching Vector Autoregressive (MS-VAR) process to model economic variables and insured's lifetime.
result Obtains net single premiums and hedging formulas for equity-linked life insurance products.

Machine learning models predict US economic recessions using Treasury term spreads.

problem Predicting US economic recessions using Treasury term spreads.
method Gradient Boosting and Random Forest methods trained with SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) framework.
result 3 month to 6 month Treasury term spread is the most relevant for predicting US economic recession.

Paper introduces a new method for calibrating ESGs to both historical and forward-looking data.

problem Lack of a generally accepted methodology for calibrating ESGs to forward-looking information.
method Conditional Scenario Simulator framework for consistent calibration of economic and financial variables.
result Framework can embed various financial and macroeconomic models and demonstrate practical examples in frequentist and Bayesian settings.

We describe a simple, low-level approach for embedding probabilistic programming in a deep learning ecosystem. In particular, we distill probabilistic programming down to a single abstraction---the random variable. Our lightweight implementation in TensorFlow enables numerous applications: a model-parallel variational …

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper compares analytical and numerical solutions of the Black-Scholes model.

problem Comparing analytical and numerical methods for solving the Black-Scholes model.
method Analytical solution (variable separation) and numerical solution (finite differences) of the Black-Scholes equation.
result Numerical solutions provide more accurate results for complex scenarios.

The paper uses deep neural networks to estimate economic models without separability restrictions.

problem Estimating economic models with complex interaction effects and non-separable restrictions.
method Uses deep neural networks as a nonparametric sieve to approximate regression functions from nonlinear latent variable models.
result Economic shape, sparsity, or separability restrictions are imposed more straightforwardly when a flexible latent variable model is used.

Contrary to conventional economic growth theory, which reduces a country's output to one aggregate variable (GDP), product diversity is central to economic development, as recent 'economic complexity' research suggests. A country's product diversity reflects its diversity of knowhow or 'capabilities'. Researchers propo…

2016-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

For each simple Lie algebra g\mathfrak{g} (excluding, for trivial reasons, type C{\sf C}) we find the lowest possible degree of an invariant second-order PDE over the adjoint variety in Pg\mathbb{P}\mathfrak{g}, a homogeneous contact manifold. Here a PDE F(xi,u,ui,uij)=0F(x^i,u,u_i,u_{ij})=0 has degree d\le d if FF is a polynomi…

2016-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗