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48 results for Strategic investors

Game theory models storage investment to balance market competition and profits.

problem Strategic storage investment impacts electricity market prices and revenues.
method Formulated a non-cooperative game between investors to model strategic storage decisions.
result Increasing storage capacity reduces individual profits but increases total investment.

Model predicts trading strategies based on latent demand and price impact.

problem Predicting strategic trading behavior of investors with private targets.
method Equilibrium model of dynamic trading, learning, and pricing by strategic investors.
result Trading strategies are a combination of target following, liquidity provision, and front-running based on latent demand and price pressure.

Investors' strategic trading affects asset prices, modeled as a game.

problem Investors' trading rates influence asset prices in dynamic markets.
method Model as a non-zero sum singular stochastic differential game, establishing equivalence between best-response and auxiliary control problems.
result Unique Nash equilibrium is deterministic with a closed-form solution.

Investors can enhance their portfolios by strategically using LETFs, especially with dynamic strategies.

problem Unsuitability of passive or static approaches to LETFs leads to undesirable risk-return profiles.
method Demonstrated the effectiveness of simple dynamic strategies in exploiting favorable Omega ratio dynamics.
result Dynamic strategies can exploit the compounding effect of LETFs, improving risk-return profiles.

Study identifies a Strategic Gap in market efficiency due to AI-driven timing and complexity in disclosure.

problem Market inefficiency due to structural influence of disclosure timing and complexity.
method Introduces Autonomous Disclosure Regulator, a multi-node AI framework to audit disclosure complexity and unpredictability.
result Companies use confusing language and unpredictable timing to slow down market learning, creating a 60% Structural Gap.

Investors can achieve optimal risk-reward trade-offs with bonds and stocks under mean-reverting stock returns.

problem Optimizing investment strategies with mean-reverting stock returns.
method Calculus of variations to derive the entire family of extremal strategies, not just the optimal ones.
result The value of the portfolio is effectively bounded from below, providing a 'guarantee' on the horizon.

Investors' strategies in a market influenced by price impact are analyzed, showing aggressive behavior when impact exceeds a critical point.

problem Strategic interaction and Nash equilibria of investors in a financial market with price impact.
method Analysis of Nash equilibria for relative investors with CRRA and CARA utility functions in a Brownian motion-driven market, considering both linear and non-linear price impacts.
result Investors' aggressive behavior is observed when price impact exceeds a critical parameter.

Study analyzes market equilibrium returns with price impact and transaction costs.

problem Modeling equilibrium returns in markets with strategic order placement and transaction costs.
method Analyzes frictionless and transaction-cost markets, characterizes Nash equilibrium via FBSDEs.
result Equilibrium returns are affected by transaction costs, especially with noise traders.

Study optimal liquidation strategies in lit and dark pools with and without regulation.

problem Optimal liquidation strategies in dark and lit pools with execution uncertainty.
method Design optimal make-take fee policies, solve HJB-Fokker-Planck systems, use BSDEs.
result Explicit solutions for optimal strategies in both competitive and regulated markets.

This paper investigates the equilibrium interactions between trading targets and private information in a multi-period Kyle (1985) market. There are two investors who each follow dynamic trading strategies: A strategic portfolio rebalancer who engages in order splitting to reach a cumulative trading target and an uncon…

2015-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows cognitive load impacts financial market efficiency, especially for less sophisticated investors.

problem Cognitive load's effect on financial market information processing.
method Developed a theoretical framework and tested it with exogenous disclosure complexity variation.
result Cognitive load significantly impairs price discovery, particularly for less sophisticated investors.

In illiquid markets, option traders may have an incentive to increase their portfolio value by using their impact on the dynamics of the underlying. We provide a mathematical framework within which to value derivatives under market impact in a multi-player framework by introducing strategic interactions into the Almgre…

2008-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Investor and firm optimize sustainable investment and emission reduction through a dynamic game.

problem Optimal sustainable investment and emission reduction in a dynamic game setting.
method Formulated as a nonzero-sum dynamic game, solved via variational inequalities and verified in a diffusive setup.
result Nash equilibria show moving boundaries increasing with emission abatement, triggered by both investor and firm actions.

We consider a stochastic game between a trader and a central bank in a target zone market with a lower currency peg. This currency peg is maintained by the central bank through the generation of permanent price impact, thereby aggregating an ever increasing risky position in foreign reserves. We describe this situation…

2018-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes information acquisition to reduce estimation risk and maximize utility.

problem Estimation risk in investor decision-making.
method Derives closed-form value functions using CARA and CRRA utility functions, employs variational methods to explore optimal acquisition.
result Acquiring information earlier is more valuable in reducing estimation risk and achieving higher utility.

Game-theoretic model captures investor interactions for stock price forecasting.

problem Complex market dynamics driving stock price movements.
method Game-theoretic modeling of heterogeneous investor interactions in a dynamic graph structure.
result Our method outperforms state-of-the-art stock price forecasting methods.

Study optimizes resource allocation in noisy systems for better control.

problem Limited attention in stochastic systems with multiplicative noise.
method Analytical and numerical methods for optimal attention allocation.
result Effective resource allocation enhances noise estimation and control decisions.

In this paper we examine the process involved in the design and implementation of a port-graph model to be used for the analysis of an agent-based rational negligence model. Rational negligence describes the phenomenon that occurred during the financial crisis of 2008 whereby investors chose to trade asset-backed secur…

2019-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure projects worth US$90 billion and representing different project types, geographical regions, and historical periods, it is fou…

2013-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

AI agents manage portfolios, improving on human oversight.

problem Improving strategic asset allocation for institutional investors.
method 50 specialized agents produce capital market assumptions, construct portfolios, critique, and vote on each other's output.
result Meta-agent compares forecasts with realized returns and improves agent performance.

Research shows eco-innovation boosts earnings management, especially in constrained firms.

problem The impact of eco-innovation on earnings management in firms with financial constraints.
method Multi-method approach including entropy balancing, PSM, and Heckman Test correction.
result Eco-innovation positively correlates with earnings management, especially in firms facing financial constraints.

Paper generalizes strategic classification framework and introduces SVC for PAC-learning.

problem Strategic manipulation of testing data to fool classifiers.
method Unified framework for strategic classification, strategic VC-dimension (SVC).
result Characterizes the learnability and computational tractability of linear classifiers.

Study strategic dynamic pricing for buyers with unknown manipulation costs.

problem Strategic buyers manipulate their features to get lower prices, hindering profit maximization.
method Proposes a strategic dynamic pricing policy that incorporates strategic behavior and binary response data.
result Achieves sublinear regret bound of O(T)O(\sqrt{T}) compared to linear Ω(T)Ω(T) regret of non-strategic policies.

New framework reduces strategic manipulation cost for minority groups in fair classification.

problem Strategic manipulation disparities in fair classification.
method Constrained optimization framework that constructs classifiers to reduce strategic manipulation cost for minority groups.
result Empirically, the approach reduces strategic manipulation cost for minority groups over multiple real-world datasets.

Study compares employers with and without anticipating strategic labor force responses.

problem Understanding and optimizing strategic interactions in labor markets.
method Formulation of causal strategic classification, theory, and experiments.
result Performatively optimal hiring policies improve employer and labor outcomes, but can also harm labor force utility.

Paper examines financial engineering problems and introduces AlphaZero for better replication strategies.

problem Replication portfolio construction in incomplete markets with non-convex constraints.
method Introduces AlphaZero-based system to compare with deep hedging method.
result AlphaZero outperforms deep hedging in non-convex environments, finding near-optimal strategies.

The study identifies core and satellite segments in the cryptocurrency market.

problem Identifying similar cryptocurrencies for strategic asset allocation.
method Segmentation of the cryptocurrency market using image / pattern recognition methods.
result Core and satellite segments identified in the cryptocurrency market.

New algorithm learns optimal policies in strategic MDPs with private types.

problem Optimal policy learning in strategic MDPs with private types and information asymmetry.
method PLAN algorithm using instrumental variable regression and pessimism principle.
result PLAN achieves near-optimal policy with 1/K1 / \sqrt{K} optimality.

Deep neural network (DNN) has demonstrated its success in multiple domains. However, DNN models are inherently vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are generated by adding adversarial perturbations to benign inputs to fool the DNN model to misclassify. In this paper, we present a cross-layer strategic ensemble fra…

2019-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper extends financial theory to measure learnable market structure under computational constraints.

problem Understanding learnable market structure under bounded computational capacity.
method Introduces financial epiplexity as a measure of learnable market structure, extending classical information theory.
result Proves that equal entropy does not imply equal epiplexity and derives thresholds for useful regimes.

New findings show strategic interactions can undermine model expressiveness in machine learning.

problem How strategic interactions affect model performance in machine learning.
method Analyzing model expressiveness and strategic interactions in various machine learning settings.
result Optimizing over less expressive model classes can lead to better equilibrium outcomes in strategic environments.

Consequential decision-making typically incentivizes individuals to behave strategically, tailoring their behavior to the specifics of the decision rule. A long line of work has therefore sought to counteract strategic behavior by designing more conservative decision boundaries in an effort to increase robustness to th…

2018-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Study allocates resources to strategic agents while balancing cost and incentives.

problem Dynamic allocation of reusable resources to strategic agents with private valuations under long-term cost constraints.
method Incentive-aware framework combining epoch-based lazy updates and randomized exploration rounds.
result Achieves ildeO(T) ilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{T}) social welfare regret, satisfies all cost constraints, and ensures incentive alignment.

The paper analyzes trading strategies in a competitive market with incomplete information.

problem Strategic trading under uncertainty when firms lack full knowledge of competitors' strategies.
method Bayesian games framework to incorporate uncertainty and derive optimal trading strategies.
result Uncertainty significantly impacts trading strategies compared to complete information scenarios.

Algorithm learns optimal coordination for strategic agents in uncertain settings.

problem Optimizing rewards for strategic agents with private types and actions.
method Combines delaying mechanism, reward angle estimation, and LinUCB algorithm.
result Near optimal regret bound of O~(T)\tilde{O}(\sqrt{T}) for learning optimal policy.

Randomised classifiers outperform deterministic ones in strategic classification.

problem Strategic modification of features by agents in classification tasks.
method Theoretical analysis of randomised classifiers in strategic classification.
result Randomised classifiers can achieve better accuracy than deterministic ones under certain conditions.

Study one-shot strategic classification under unknown costs, improving worst-case accuracy.

problem Learning robust decision rules in strategic settings with unknown user costs.
method Formal study of one-shot strategic classification, framing as a minimax problem, designing efficient algorithms for full-batch and stochastic settings.
result Proves efficient algorithms converge to minimax solution, revealing dual norm regularization's value.

Consequential decision-making incentivizes individuals to strategically adapt their behavior to the specifics of the decision rule. While a long line of work has viewed strategic adaptation as gaming and attempted to mitigate its effects, recent work has instead sought to design classifiers that incentivize individuals…

2019-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗