We present a class of Lévy processes for modelling financial market fluctuations: Bilateral Gamma processes. Our starting point is to explore the properties of bilateral Gamma distributions, and then we turn to their associated Lévy processes. We treat exponential Lévy stock models with an underlying bilateral Gamma pr…
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Study on gamma-related OU processes with simulation methods.
Estimates boundaries for acceptable bilateral gamma risk in financial markets.
In the framework of bilateral Gamma stock models we seek for adequate option pricing measures, which have an economic interpretation and allow numerical calculations of option prices. Our investigations encompass Esscher transforms, minimal entropy martingale measures, -optimal martingale measures, bilateral Esscher…
The paper fits a seven-parameter GTS distribution to financial data.
We offer new formulas for European option pricing under tempered stable processes.
The gamma distribution arises frequently in Bayesian models, but there is not an easy-to-use conjugate prior for the shape parameter of a gamma. This inconvenience is usually dealt with by using either Metropolis-Hastings moves, rejection sampling methods, or numerical integration. However, in models with a large numbe…
Develops Bayesian inference methods for gamma models.
Let P be a locally finite circle packing in the plane invariant under a non-elementary Kleinian group Gamma and with finitely many Gamma-orbits. When Gamma is geometrically finite, we construct an explicit Borel measure on the plane which describes the asymptotic distribution of small circles in P, assuming that either…
We use the theory of normal variance-mean mixtures to derive a data augmentation scheme for models that include gamma functions. Our methodology applies to many situations in statistics and machine learning, including Multinomial-Dirichlet distributions, Negative binomial regression, Poisson-Gamma hierarchical models, …
The paper uses the variance-gamma model to price options and explain excess kurtosis.
We show that gamma distributions provide models for departures from randomness since every neighbourhood of an exponential distribution contains a neighbourhood of gamma distributions, using an information theoretic metric topology. We derive also the information geometry of the 3-manifold of McKay bivariate gamma dist…
Adversarial meta-learning computes Gamma-minimax estimators for vague prior knowledge.
Method solves optimisation problems on non-Riemannian surfaces with bilateral curvature bounds.
Mixture models with Gamma and or inverse-Gamma distributed mixture components are useful for medical image tissue segmentation or as post-hoc models for regression coefficients obtained from linear regression within a Generalised Linear Modeling framework (GLM), used in this case to separate stochastic (Gaussian) noise…
Using available data from the New York stock market (NYSM) we test four different bi-parametric models to fit the correspondent volume-price distributions at each -minute lag: the Gamma distribution, the inverse Gamma distribution, the Weibull distribution and the log-normal distribution. The volume-price data, whi…
Study shows variance gamma model outperforms Black-Scholes for USD-INR currency options.
We show, analytically and numerically, that wealth distribution in the Bouchaud-Mézard network model of the economy is described by a three-parameter generalized inverse gamma distribution. In the mean-field limit of a network with any two agents linked, it reduces to the inverse gamma distribution.
We compare two different bilateral counterparty valuation adjustment (BVA) formulas. The first formula is an approximation and is based on subtracting the two unilateral Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA)'s formulas as seen from the two different parties in the transaction. This formula is only a simplified representati…
Modeling stock returns and volatility using a bivariate gamma generalized Laplace law.
We study the Immediate Exchange model, recently introduced by Heinsalu and Patriarca [Eur. Phys. J. B 87: 170 (2014)], who showed by simulations that the wealth distribution in this model converges to a Gamma distribution with shape parameter . Here we justify this conclusion analytically, in the infinite-population…
While stochastic variational inference is relatively well known for scaling inference in Bayesian probabilistic models, related methods also offer ways to circumnavigate the approximation of analytically intractable expectations. The key challenge in either setting is controlling the variance of gradient estimates: rec…
Thompson sampling used for linear bandits with normal-gamma priors.
We show how the cost of funding the collateral in a particular set up can be equal to the Bilateral Valuation Adjustment with the "funded" probability of default, leading to the definition of a Funded Bilateral Valuation Adjustment (FBVA). That set up can also be viewed by an investor as an effective way to restructure…
In this short note we show that the existence of bilaterally symmetric extremal Kähler metrics on .
Unified model for network risks, including bilateral and central clearing, with practical applications.
BDC compresses both sample size and dimensionality of large datasets.
Study minimax regret in bilateral trade with heavy-tailed valuations.
The paper analyzes regret in bilateral trade mechanisms without prior valuations.
TradeMech nets trades without changing counterparty relationships.
W-shaped vol curves in liquid options can be modeled with two variance-gamma models.
We analyze the data on personal income distribution from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. We compare fits of the data to the exponential, log-normal, and gamma distributions. The exponential function gives a good (albeit not perfect) description of 98% of the population in the lower part of the distribution. The lo…
A new sampling method balances imbalanced data using gamma distribution.
The claim experience of the past is a very important information to calculate the fair price of an insurance contract. In a lot of European countries for instance the prices for motor car insurance depend on the number of claims the driver has reported to the insurance company during the last years. Classically these p…
This paper presents the Poisson-randomized gamma dynamical system (PRGDS), a model for sequentially observed count tensors that encodes a strong inductive bias toward sparsity and burstiness. The PRGDS is based on a new motif in Bayesian latent variable modeling, an alternating chain of discrete Poisson and continuous …
Paper predicts international trade flows using machine learning and factorization models.
A new RBM model handles both linear and log-amplitude spectrograms.
New Gamma-Poisson model improves topic selection for short text.
Modeling volatility with Chained Gamma Distributions for financial time series.
In the limit of infinite number of nodes (agents), the Itô-reduced Bouchaud-Mézard network model of economic exchange has a time-independent mean and a steady-state inverse gamma distribution. We show that for a finite number of nodes the mean is actually distributed as a time-dependent lognormal and inverse gamma is q…
To infer a multilayer representation of high-dimensional count vectors, we propose the Poisson gamma belief network (PGBN) that factorizes each of its layers into the product of a connection weight matrix and the nonnegative real hidden units of the next layer. The PGBN's hidden layers are jointly trained with an upwar…
A new model BGAR(1) improves temporal NMF for time series data.
Proposes a method for training Bayesian neural networks using synthetic data from Raman and CARS spectra.
Bielecki and Rutkowski (2014) introduced and studied a generic nonlinear market model, which includes several risky assets, multiple funding accounts and margin accounts. In this paper, we examine the pricing and hedging of contract both from the perspective of the hedger and the counterparty with arbitrary initial end…
Study models opaque financial markets using multi-agent simulation.
Bielecki and Rutkowski (2014) introduced and studied a generic nonlinear market model, which includes several risky assets, multiple funding accounts and margin accounts. In this paper, we examine the pricing and hedging of contract both from the perspective of the hedger and the counterparty with arbitrary initial end…
A new hedging strategy uses deep reinforcement learning to manage gamma and vega risks.
Our previous results are extended to the case of the margin account, which may depend on the contract's value for the hedger and/or the counterparty. The present work generalizes also the papers by Bergman (1995), Mercurio (2013) and Piterbarg (2010). Using the comparison theorems for BSDEs, we derive inequalities for …