The article explores creating tax bonds for companies to access temporary tax breaks.
problem Creating financial products for companies to access temporary tax breaks.
method Using a structural model, the article describes how to create and price a type of bond (Tax Normalization Guarantee) for companies.
result It is possible to create and price a type of bond (Tax Normalization Guarantee) for companies to access temporary tax breaks.
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…
New eco-systemic prudential policies aim to finance green companies, reducing systemic financial risk.
problem Insufficient financing for green companies despite available savings and monetary management.
method Reorient corporate accounting towards socio-environmental solvency, facilitating access with public guarantees.
result Green financing increases, reducing systemic financial risk and promoting less leveraged investments.
Keywords: corporate finance, Wrocław University of Economics, net profit margin lub net sales profitability
Large language models learn company embeddings from SEC filings.
problem Lack of a rigorous definition of company similarity.
method Pre-trained and finetuned large language models (LLMs) to learn embeddings from SEC filings.
result LLMs can reproduce GICS classifications and indicate similar financial performance.
New optimal investment strategies for finance and insurance using Hawkes-based models.
problem Optimal investment strategies in finance and insurance for specific models.
method Solving Merton investment problems with Hawkes-based models.
result New optimal investment results for finance and insurance models.
New machine learning method classifies companies effectively.
problem Classifying companies for financial analysis.
method Unsupervised machine learning with t-SNE and spectral clustering.
result Improved portfolio performance through better company classification.
Paper presents a faster method for computing cost of equity and performing comparable company analysis.
problem Tedium and subjectivity in traditional cost of equity and comparable company analysis methods.
method Uses spectral and agglomerative clustering to compute cost of equity and perform comparable company analysis.
result Reduces time required for comps by orders of magnitude and improves consistency and reliability.
Blockchain disrupts corporate finance, but challenges remain.
problem Challenges in adopting blockchain for corporate finance.
method Exploring the impact of blockchain on corporate finance valuation and capital allocation.
result Blockchain offers new perspectives but faces regulatory, environmental, and legal challenges.
Study on decentralization in DAOs and its effect on financial efficiency in DeFi.
problem Understanding the impact of decentralization on financial efficiency in blockchain-based governance.
method Analysis using Gini coefficient as an inequality indicator, comparing ROI of token owners.
result Real decentralization affects financial efficiency positively in DeFi.
Visualizes board connections for socially responsible investing insights.
problem Understanding corporate governance and sustainability through board connections.
method Data Visualization tool to reveal connections between Directors and Executives.
result Strength of tool in investigating corporate governance and sustainability.
The paper explores how innovative financing solutions boost Moroccan businesses' performance.
problem Market volatility, ecological transitions, and technological change pose challenges to business sustainability.
method Examines innovative financing solutions like venture capital, green finance, crowdfunding, and blockchain.
result Embracing innovative financial strategies can transform business challenges into opportunities.
In this paper the utility optimization problem for a general insurance model is studied. The reserve process of the insurance company is described by a stochastic differential equation driven by a Brownian motion and a Poisson random measure, representing the randomness from the financial market and the insurance claim…
This paper optimizes insurance reinsurance design under solvency constraints.
problem Optimizing risk transfer from an insurance company to a reinsurer under solvency constraints.
method Martingale method to derive optimal reinsurance design maximizing terminal value of surplus.
result Optimal reinsurance designs include a combination of proportional and stop-loss protection.
Study examines how COVID-19 vaccine companies' popularity affects their stock prices.
problem Impact of COVID-19 vaccine development and rollout on stock prices and company popularity.
method Used Python and various libraries to analyze Google Trends data and stock prices of five vaccine companies.
result Significant correlation between Google Trend data and stock prices, with post-rollout periods showing a slight negative correlation.
System segments Form 10-K documents into Item sections for financial analysis.
problem Segmenting Form 10-K documents into Item sections for efficient financial analysis.
method Developed an automatic Form 10-K Itemization system using NLP techniques.
result System achieves a retrieval rate of 93% for segmenting Item sections.
Predict stock trends using financial news with deep learning.
problem Leverage financial news for better stock market predictions.
method Attention-based Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Bidirectional-LSTM and self-attention mechanism.
result The approach outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in predicting stock price direction.
The paper develops a model to predict IPO events in private equity investments.
problem Lack of publicly available quantitative information for predicting IPO events.
method Combines neural network and survival analysis for predicting IPO probability.
result The neuro-survival model accurately predicts IPO events across various sectors.
Study finds CNNs perform better with financial ratio data than fundamental data.
problem Improving CNN performance with financial data.
method Developed and analyzed three image encoding methods for financial data.
result Image encoding methods improve CNN performance for financial ratio data but not significantly for fundamental data.
Deep learning text embeddings improve fraud detection in healthcare insurance.
problem Improving fraud detection in healthcare insurance claims.
method Proposed deep learning architectures for text embeddings.
result Our approach outperforms other methods in detecting fraudulent claims.
FinTMMBench benchmarks RAG systems for finance tasks across multiple data types and time periods.
problem Evaluating temporal-aware multi-modal retrieval augmented generation in finance.
method TMMHybridRAG method that converts and integrates data from various modalities and temporal information.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of TMMHybridRAG in diverse financial analysis tasks.
This paper was presented and written for two seminars: a national UK University Risk Conference and a Risk Management industry workshop. The target audience is therefore a cross section of Academics and industry professionals. The current ongoing global credit crunch has highlighted the importance of risk measurement i…
This paper evaluates random forest models for predicting stock price trends.
problem Predicting stock price trends to assist investors in making informed decisions.
method Random forest models combined with artificial intelligence, using optimal parameters.
result Random forest models show better predictive performance and time efficiency.
This paper uses CNN-LSTM to predict stock market performance.
problem Predicting stock market performance is challenging due to changing prices and lack of advanced libraries.
method Developed a CNN-LSTM Neural Network model to track stock data patterns and predict future performance.
result The CNN-LSTM model outperformed other models in predicting stock market performance.
New investment strategy outperforms market with high probability.
problem Investment performance under market conditions.
method Negative-parameter portfolio strategy with market weight inversely proportional to wealth.
result Strategy outperforms market with probability one under specific conditions.
Paper presents LSTM models for short-term stock price prediction.
problem Accurately predicting short-term stock prices is challenging.
method Univariate and multivariate LSTM models using historical data.
result Multivariate LSTM model with technical indicators outperforms univariate model.
This paper explores using graph neural networks for stock market predictions, improving accuracy with richer data.
problem Limited accuracy in financial market predictions using traditional methods.
method Combines graph neural networks with company knowledge graphs for better prediction.
result Significant improvement in prediction accuracy compared to benchmarks.
IPO Finance Agent evaluates LLMs on SpaceX IPO due diligence, surpassing Finance Agent v2.
problem Evaluating language models on financial tasks like IPO due diligence.
method Introducing IPO Finance Agent and an evaluator-optimizer pipeline.
result The best-performing model reaches 79.4% accuracy at 0.30 USD per query.
New model uses interval-valued CVaR for better risk assessment in finance.
problem Measuring tail risk in rapidly changing financial markets.
method Employing random intervals to describe asset returns and using ICVaR as a risk measure.
result Optimal portfolio selection models show better risk assessment in real data.
BioFinBERT analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
problem Analyzing sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
method Finetuning BioBERT on financial datasets to create BioFinBERT for sentiment analysis.
result BioFinBERT accurately analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
IPO Finance Agent extends Finance Agent v2 for SpaceX S-1 filings, improving accuracy and cost-efficiency.
problem Evaluating IPO due diligence tasks with long-form documents.
method Extended task domain, improved agentic harness with contextual retrieval, automated rubric generation.
result Best-performing model reaches 79.8% accuracy, cost-efficient model at 77.2% with 0.05 USD per query.
The paper calculates MES bounds for systemic risk contributions under uncertain dependence.
problem Measuring systemic risk contributions of financial firms under uncertainty in dependence structure.
method Derives worst-case and best-case bounds for MES under known individual firm risks and partial dependence information.
result Improved MES bounds derived for various types of dependence models.
FTX's failure linked to Terra-Luna collapse and Binance's influence.
problem FTX's collapse due to misuse of native token and reliance on leverage.
method Analyzed on-chain data, studied cryptocurrency dependency structures, and examined public trades.
result FTX's downfall was accelerated by Binance's tweets and public reaction.
This paper is a contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop Complexity, Metastability and Nonextensivity held in Erice 20-26 July 2004, to be published by World Scientific. We propose a generalization to Merton's model for evaluating credit spreads. In his original work, a company's assets were assumed to follow a …
The study shows interest rates impact investment and funding negatively but positively on dividend decisions.
problem The effect of interest rates on financial decisions like investment, funding, and dividend.
method Correlation coefficient analysis and descriptive methods.
result Interest rates have a negatively insignificant effect on investment and funding decisions, but positively moderate effect on dividend decisions.
Study optimal dividends in dual risk model under extreme parameter conditions.
problem Optimal dividends in a dual risk model with extreme parameters.
method Asymptotic analysis of optimal control problem.
result Insights into optimal strategies and values under extreme parameter conditions.
RAG-IT automates financial analysis using LLMs and specialized datasets.
problem Manual financial analysis is time-consuming and requires expertise.
method Retrieval-Augmented Instruction Tuning (RAG-IT) fine-tunes an LLM for financial tasks.
result RAG-IT improves financial report generation performance compared to commercial systems.
We consider evaluation methods for payoffs with an inherent financial risk as encountered for instance for portfolios held by pension funds and insurance companies. Pricing such payoffs in a way consistent to market prices typically involves combining actuarial techniques with methods from mathematical finance. We prop…
Study finds similar companies in Dhaka Stock Exchange using technical data.
problem Analyzing all companies in Dhaka Stock Exchange is impractical.
method Used technical data to identify companies moving together.
result Technical data can reveal company relationships without fundamental data.
Paper combines QRM and CNN for better stock option price forecasting.
problem Forecasting stock option prices in a complex market.
method Solves Black-Scholes equation using QRM, trains CNN models on data.
result CNN models improve option price prediction accuracy.
This study finds ESG rating disagreement reduces corporate productivity, especially in certain types of firms.
problem The impact of ESG rating disagreement on corporate productivity.
method Analysis of A-share listed companies data from 2015 to 2022 using XGBoost regression and SHAP.
result ESG rating disagreement reduces corporate productivity, especially in certain types of firms.
Hybrid model combines PCA and RNN for better aerospace stock price prediction.
problem Challenges in predicting stock prices of aerospace companies due to market uncertainty and complexity.
method Combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN).
result PCA improves both accuracy and efficiency of stock price prediction.
Developed Merton's model for public companies using observed liabilities.
problem Estimating default risk for public companies.
method Campbell and Shiller's approximation method for risk-neutral values and default probabilities.
result Formulas and ML estimators for public companies' default probabilities.
Company2Vec creates embeddings from company websites for fine-grained business analytics.
problem Lack of fine-grained company labels for analytics.
method Word2Vec and dimensionality reduction on company website data.
result Semantic company embeddings for various applications.
Develops Merton's model for private companies using DDM.
problem Lack of observable asset values for private companies.
method Uses dividend discount model (DDM) to develop structural model.
result Obtains closed-form formulas for equity and liability values, default probability.
This paper develops a valuation model for private companies.
problem Lack of pricing and hedging models for private companies.
method Dynamic Gordon growth model, Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimators, Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm.
result Closed-form pricing and hedging formulas for private companies.
Machine learning struggles with temporal data in finance, leading to inaccurate models.
problem Machine learning models struggle with temporal data in finance, leading to inaccurate predictions.
method Review and critique current machine learning approaches for temporal data in finance.
result Current approaches to machine learning in finance often ignore the temporal richness of data.
We present an analytical study of an insurance company. We model the company's performance on a statistical basis and evaluate the predicted annual income of the company in terms of insurance parameters namely the premium, total number of the insured, average loss claims etc. We restrict ourselves to a single insurance…