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48 results for capital investment

Study optimizes insurance investment to maximize utility across all capital levels.

problem Maximizing expected utility across all capital levels in an insurance company's investment strategy.
method Dynamic Programming Principle and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to prove existence of optimal strategy.
result Existence of optimal investment strategy proven under certain conditions.

Investment behavior in wine industry influenced by profitability and capitalization.

problem Exploring investment dynamics in wine industry from EU largest producers.
method Firm-level data from France, Italy, and Spain (2007-2014). Difference-and system-GMM estimators used.
result Profitability positively impacts investment dynamics, while capitalization negatively impacts only in France and Spain.

In this paper we characterise the propensity of big capital investments to systematically deliver poor outcomes as "fragility," a notion suggested by Nassim Taleb. A thing or system that is easily harmed by randomness is fragile. We argue that, contrary to their appearance, big capital investments break easily - i.e. d…

2016-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Investment strategy depends on many factors for venture capital funds.

problem Finding the optimal portfolio size for venture capital funds.
method Analyzes various factors affecting fund returns and optimal portfolio size, starting with basic assumptions and increasing complexity.
result Investment strategy depends on many factors, not a one-size-fits-all formula.

Reinsurance can help life insurers maintain higher capital guarantees without losing utility.

problem Decreasing capital guarantees in life insurance products.
method Dynamic investment-reinsurance optimization problem with simultaneous Value-at-Risk and no-short-selling constraints. Introduced guarantee-equivalent utility gain for comparison.
result Optimally managed reinsurance allows insurers to offer higher capital guarantees without reducing expected utility.

The paper addresses dynamic capital structure models with defaultable debt, proving existence and uniqueness.

problem Dynamic capital structure models with an investor break-even condition may not generate a contraction mapping.
method Provided an example and used a dual problem and change of measure to prove existence and uniqueness.
result A unique Markov-perfect equilibrium exists where firm decisions reflect state-dependent targets.

Research tackles investor confusion in ESG rankings, offering tailored strategies.

problem Widespread confusion among investors regarding ESG rankings.
method Developed ESG ensemble strategies, integrated ESG scores into RL model, proposed Double-Mean-Variance model, introduced ESG-adjusted CAPMs.
result Optimized portfolios that balance financial returns and ESG-focused outcomes.

We study a practical optimization problems for venture capital investments and/or Research and Development (R&D) investments. The first problem is that, given the amount of the initial investment and the reward function at the initial public offering (IPO) market, the venture capitalist wants to maximize overall discou…

2007-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this theoretical paper, I propose creation of a venture bank, able to multiply the capital of a venture capital firm by at least 47 times, without requiring access to the Federal Reserve or other central bank apart from settlement. This concept rests on obtaining default swap instruments on loans in order to create …

2017-07-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Scaling relations, such as the IPAT equation and the Kaya identity, are useful for quickly gauging the scale of economic, technological, and demographic changes required to reduce environmental impacts and pressures; in the case of the Kaya identity, the environmental pressure is greenhouse gas emissions. However, when…

2011-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We design an optimal strategy for investment in a portfolio of assets subject to a multiplicative Brownian motion. The strategy provides the maximal typical long-term growth rate of investor's capital. We determine the optimal fraction of capital that an investor should keep in risky assets as well as weights of differ…

1998-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study investigates ruin probability with random premiums and risky investments.

problem Ruin probability with random premiums and risky investments.
method Laplace transform applied to a model with geometric Brownian motion.
result Asymptotic behavior of ruin probability for large initial capital values.

Optimizes bank capital structure under Basel III constraints, simplifying complex dynamics.

problem Optimizing risky investments, dividends, and capital structure under Basel III constraints.
method Formulated as a stochastic control problem, reducing dynamics to a one-dimensional process in leverage ratio.
result Simple policy: pay dividends at an upper barrier and recapitalize at the distress boundary.

Risk-only investment strategies have been growing in popularity as traditional in- vestment strategies have fallen short of return targets over the last decade. However, risk-based investors should be aware of four things. First, theoretical considerations and empirical studies show that apparently dictinct risk-based …

2013-06-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds cryptoasset markets inefficient due to capital reallocation frictions.

problem Inefficiency in cryptoasset markets due to capital reallocation frictions.
method Examined investments with dominant and secondary risk factors, derived equilibrium restrictions, and tested empirically.
result Empirical results strongly reject necessary equilibrium restrictions, indicating market inefficiency.

Optimizes capital structure for life insurance companies with surplus participation.

problem Determining the optimal participation rate in life insurance contracts.
method Adapted Leland's dynamic capital structure model to life insurance context.
result Optimal participation rate is highly sensitive to contract duration and tax rate.

The paper models financial markets and real economy interactions using a large agent framework.

problem Understanding capital allocation and accumulation in financial markets and real economy interactions.
method Developed a field-formalism model to analyze interactions between financial markets and real economy with a large number of heterogeneous agents.
result The number of firms in each sector depends on the aggregate financial capital invested and expected long-term returns.

Statistical fields model explains capital allocation and accumulation among firms and investors.

problem Understanding capital allocation and accumulation dynamics among firms and investors.
method Applied statistical fields formalism to heterogeneous agents divided into firms and investors.
result Capital accumulation depends on various factors including long-term returns, competition, and stock price volatility.

This study assesses how share capital affects financial growth of non-financial firms listed at NSE.

problem Non-financial firms listed at NSE struggle with financial growth due to declining performance and lack of investor interest.
method Descriptive and panel data analysis of 45 non-financial firms over 10 years.
result Share capital positively and significantly influences financial growth, explaining 32.73% and 11.62% of variations in earnings per share and market capitalization growth, respectively.

This research examines relationship between staging of Venture Capital (VC) investments and social feedback visible in publicly available data on the Web. We address the question of Venture Capital investment sensitivity to performance and prospects of new venture, given as likelihood of obtaining future financing, ava…

2012-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Dual risk models are popular for modeling a venture capital or high tech company, for which the running cost is deterministic and the profits arrive stochastically over time. Most of the existing literature on dual risk models concentrated on the optimal dividend strategies. In this paper, we propose to study the optim…

2015-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we discuss the Cramér-Lundberg model with investments, where the price of the invested risk asset follows a geometric Brownian motion with drift aa and volatility σ>0.σ> 0. By assuming there is a cap on the claim sizes, we prove that the probability of ruin has at least an algebraic decay rate if $2a/σ^2 …

2010-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper uses clustering and integer programming to optimize stock selection for investment funds.

problem Maximizing profits and minimizing risk in stock markets.
method Data-oriented analysis and clustering techniques with integer programming.
result Reconstructed NASDAQ 100 index fund example demonstrates effectiveness.

We quantify the benefit of collectivised investment funds, in which the assets of members who die are shared among the survivors. For our model, with realistic parameter choices, an annuity or individual fund requires approximately 20\% more initial capital to provide as good an outcome as a collectivised investment fu…

2019-09-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes strategic irreversible investments with novel dynamic strategies.

problem Tradeoff between preemption incentives and option value of waiting in oligopolistic markets.
method Developed novel Markov perfect equilibrium to handle singular control of optimal investment.
result Simpler strategies lead to a 'preemption trap' with zero net present values.

In the aftermath of the 2007 global financial crisis, banks started reflecting into derivative pricing the cost of capital and collateral funding through XVA metrics. Here XVA is a catch-all acronym whereby X is replaced by a letter such as C for credit, D for debt, F for funding, K for capital and so on, and VA stands…

2016-03-09abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the risk criterion for investments based on the drawdown from the maximal value of the capital in the past. Depending on investor's risk attitude, thus his risk exposure, we find that the distribution of these drawdowns follows a general power law. In particular, if the risk exposure is Kelly-optimal, the expo…

1998-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗