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Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students. Yet, little quantitative research has analyzed the causes and possible remedies for student attrition. Here, we describe initial efforts to model stud…

2016-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

The asymmetric price impact between the institutional purchases and sales of 32 liquid stocks in Chinese stock markets in year 2003 is carefully studied. We analyze the price impact in both drawup and drawdown trends with consecutive positive and negative daily price changes, and test the dependence of the price impact…

2011-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows foreign institutional investment increases liquidity commonality in large Australian stocks.

problem Impact of foreign institutional investment on liquidity commonality in Australian stocks.
method Cross-sectional and time-series analysis of Australian equity market data.
result Foreign institutional investment contributes to increased exposure of large stocks to unexpected liquidity events.

Paper discusses how financial institutions' model risk management can benefit academic research.

problem Improving academic research process and mitigating limitations.
method Adopting financial institutions' model risk management practices.
result Lessons from financial institutions can enhance academic research reliability.

Modern financial networks exhibit a high degree of interconnectedness and determining the causes of instability and contagion in financial networks is necessary to inform policy and avoid future financial collapse. In the American Economic Review, Elliott, Golub and Jackson proposed a simple model for capturing the dyn…

2015-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

HyFi cryptocurrencies backed by institutions show lower price risk than fully decentralized ones.

problem High volatility in decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrencies.
method Panel EGLS models with fixed, random, and dynamic specifications using daily data for 18 major cryptocurrencies.
result HyFi-like assets exhibit lower price risk, especially during market stress.

This paper uses MIS to identify key financial institutions with minimal risk contagion.

problem Mitigating systemic risk during extreme financial events.
method Applying extreme value theory and MIS from graph theory to identify diversified portfolios.
result Identified a subset of institutions with minimal extremal dependence for diversified portfolios.

Paper proposes a federated graph learning platform to improve financial crime detection.

problem Current financial crime detection methods are ineffective and costly.
method Federated graph learning platform combining federated learning and graph learning.
result Federated model outperforms local model by 20%.

Reflective of income and wealth distributions, philanthropic gifting appears to follow an approximate power-law size distribution as measured by the size of gifts received by individual institutions. We explore the ecology of gifting by analysing data sets of individual gifts for a diverse group of institutions dedicat…

2013-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Investor-driven information diffusion affects excess comovement in China and the U.S. markets.

problem Investor-driven information diffusion and its impact on excess comovement.
method Cross-sectional analysis of 4,533 Chinese and 4,517 U.S. stocks from 2010 to 2022.
result Retail-driven information diffusion significantly drives excess comovement in China, while institution-driven diffusion is the primary driver in the U.S.

Study examines how institutional differences and crises affect volatility in ASEAN stock markets.

problem Understanding how institutional differences and crises impact volatility in emerging Asian stock markets.
method By-window EGARCH/TGARCH analysis of daily stock index returns for Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines from 2010 to 2024.
result All three markets show strong volatility persistence and fat-tailed returns; crises increase persistence and asymmetry, while tail thickness rises.

The average portfolio structure of institutional investors is shown to have properties which account for transaction costs in an optimal way. This implies that financial institutions unknowingly display collective rationality, or Wisdom of the Crowd. Individual deviations from the rational benchmark are ample, which il…

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Financial institutions use LSTM models to predict customer goals.

problem Predicting customer goals and actions in financial services.
method Used LSTM models with state-space graph embeddings on historical customer traces.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of LSTM models in predicting customer goals and actions.

An article based on a four-lecture introductory minicourse on minimal surface theory given at the 2013 summer program of the Institute for Advanced Study and the Park City Mathematics Institute.

2013-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows institutional investments significantly impact cryptocurrency market evolution.

problem Limited understanding of institutional investments' role in cryptocurrency market evolution.
method Quantitative analysis of 1324 cryptocurrencies' investments from 2014-2022.
result Institutional investments correlate with cryptocurrency market capitalization.

Study improves systemic risk assessment by considering local network environments.

problem Identifying systemic financial institutions using network metrics.
method Two-step procedure: 1) recover network communities, 2) regress vulnerability on topological measures at global, local, and aggregated levels.
result Local network metrics predict distress better than global metrics during financial crises.

Modeling financial institution dependence structures for systemic risk.

problem Understanding and measuring systemic risk in financial systems.
method Dynamic model of dependence structure using Markov structures of joint credit migrations.
result Different Markov structures with distinct dependence structures lead to varying systemic instability.

The paper introduces GAER to assess market feasibility under geopolitical and institutional constraints.

problem Feasibility of adaptive market efficiency under heterogeneous institutional and geopolitical conditions.
method Structural framework integrating adaptive market theory, institutional economics, and political economy.
result GAER as a diagnostic indicator for portfolio construction feasibility.

Recent financial disasters emphasised the need to investigate the consequence associated with the tail co-movements among institutions; episodes of contagion are frequently observed and increase the probability of large losses affecting market participants' risk capital. Commonly used risk management tools fail to acco…

2013-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A Nash game theory approach allocates capital requirements among financial institutions.

problem Allocating systemic risk measures among financial institutions.
method Proposes a Nash allocation rule inspired by game theory.
result Provides sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of Nash allocation rules.

Model predicts customer churn in financial institutions using neural networks.

problem Manual feature engineering in customer churn prediction.
method Developed a Multi-layer Perceptron model using Artificial Neural Network architecture.
result Artificial Neural Network model achieved comparable performance to Neuro Solution Infinity software.

The credit crisis of 2007 and 2008 has thrown much focus on the models used to price mortgage backed securities. Many institutions have relied heavily on the credit ratings provided by credit agency. The relationships between management of credit agencies and debt issuers may have resulted in conflict of interest when …

2009-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Bitcoin's integration with major financial indices intensifies, suggesting a shift from alternative to integrated asset.

problem Understanding Bitcoin's evolving role in financial markets and its correlation dynamics.
method Rolling-window correlation, static correlation coefficients, and event-study framework on daily data from 2018 to 2025.
result Correlation levels between Bitcoin and major indices reached 0.87 in 2024, indicating a more integrated role.

Study shows federated learning can segment brain tumors without data sharing.

problem Lack of sufficient medical data for deep learning models.
method Federated learning for multi-institutional collaboration without sharing patient data.
result Federated semantic segmentation models perform similarly to those trained with shared data.

Study shows CCLs have minimal impact on most trades but can affect some.

problem Impact of counterparty credit limits on everyday trading prices.
method Analyzed high-quality data from a foreign exchange spot market and developed a new trading model.
result CCLs had little impact on most trades but can have major impact in specific scenarios.

Smart Close-out Netting aims to automate close-out netting processes.

problem Inefficiencies in close-out netting processes for financial institutions.
method Standardisation and automation of legal and regulatory processes using a data-driven framework and controlled natural language.
result Standardisation and automation can improve close-out netting processes for prudentially regulated financial institutions.

This paper examines how institutional liquidity affects prediction markets.

problem How institutional liquidity impacts prediction markets and their quality.
method Defines a market-quality lens, separates channels, and uses synthetic microstructure lab.
result Institutional liquidity does not necessarily translate to equal gains for all traders.

In this research, we introduce a robust metric to identify Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) in a financial network by taking into account both common idiosyncratic shocks and contagion through counterparty exposures. We develop an efficient algorithm to rank financial institutions by formulating a fi…

2015-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The aim of this paper is to quantify and manage systemic risk caused by default contagion in the interbank market. We model the market as a random directed network, where the vertices represent financial institutions and the weighted edges monetary exposures between them. Our model captures the strong degree of heterog…

2016-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Heat semigroups used to solve geometric inequalities on manifolds.

problem Finding geometric inequalities on Riemannian and sub-Riemannian manifolds.
method Heat semigroups techniques applied to Riemannian and sub-Riemannian geometry.
result Applications of heat semigroups in geometric inequalities.

These are lecture notes from the Clay Mathematics Institute summer school ``Floer Homology, Gauge Theory, and Low Dimensional Topology'' Alfred Renyi Institute; www.claymath.org/programs/summer_school/2004/. The main goal of these notes is to sketch a proof of Giroux correspondence between open book decompositions of t…

2004-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The study reveals how institutional trading activity impacts markets, finding that total order flow is key.

problem Understanding how institutional trading activity affects market impact.
method Analysis of a large database of metaorders by institutional investors in the U.S. equity market, using a simple heuristic model.
result The market impact of multiple metaorders depends on the total number of metaorders and their mutual sign correlation, reproducing empirical market impact curves.

Financial institutions face new model risks with AI, requiring enhanced model risk management.

problem New model risks from Generative AI applications in financial institutions.
method Enhanced model risk framework with additional testing and controls.
result Financial institutions need to enhance their model risk management for Generative AI applications.

Socio-economic inequality is measured using various indices. The Gini (gg) index, giving the overall inequality is the most commonly used, while the recently introduced Kolkata (kk) index gives a measure of 1k1-k fraction of population who possess top kk fraction of wealth in the society. This article reviews the ch…

2016-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗