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48 results for concession opportunities

Machine learning models outperform traditional actuarial methods in predicting health insurance costs.

problem Improving accuracy in health insurance pricing to identify concession opportunities.
method Developed and evaluated two machine learning models at the patient and employer-group levels.
result Machine learning models outperformed traditional actuarial models by 20% in predicting costs.

We consider a stochastic game of contribution to the common good in which the players have continuous control over the degree of contribution, and we examine the gradualism arising from the free rider effect. This game belongs to the class of variable concession games which generalize wars of attrition. Previously know…

2019-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Expands robust profit opportunities to include distributional uncertainty.

problem Distributional uncertainty in financial markets.
method Formulates infinite dimensional primal problems, simplifies to finite dimensional dual problems using Wasserstein distance.
result Distributional uncertainty can enhance robustness of profit opportunities.

We explore the role that random arbitrage opportunities play in hedging financial derivatives. We extend the asymptotic pricing theory presented by Fedotov and Panayides [Stochastic arbitrage return and its implication for option pricing, Physica A 345 (2005), 207-217] for the case of hedging a derivative when arbitrag…

2005-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

It is shown that absence of arbitrage opportunity in financial markets is a particular case of existence of uncertainty in decision system. Absence of arbitrage opportunity is considered in the sense of the Arrow-Debreu model of financial market with a riskless asset, while uncertainty (or ambiguity) is defined on the …

2013-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate triangular arbitrage within the spot foreign exchange market using high-frequency executable prices. We show that triangular arbitrage opportunities do exist, but that most have short durations and small magnitudes. We find intra-day variations in the number and length of arbitrage opportunities, with la…

2008-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling business expansion as a stochastic control problem, the study finds that firms are incentivized to expand but may wait.

problem Optimizing business expansion under exposure constraints and opportunity costs.
method Formulated as a novel stochastic control problem combined with optimal stopping time, derived an explicit solution for exponential utility.
result Firms are incentivized to expand but may wait due to opportunity costs and other factors.

We are interested in the existence of equivalent martingale measures and the detection of arbitrage opportunities in markets where several multi-asset derivatives are traded simultaneously. More specifically, we consider a financial market with multiple traded assets whose marginal risk-neutral distributions are known,…

2020-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper analyzes how multiple investors can exploit relative arbitrage opportunities.

problem Analyzing how multiple investors can exploit relative arbitrage opportunities.
method Constructing a well-posed market dynamical system of McKean-Vlasov type, deriving optimal strategies, and finding Nash equilibrium.
result The conditions for relative arbitrage opportunities among competitive investors are derived.

There is vast empirical evidence that given a set of assumptions on the real-world dynamics of an asset, the European options on this asset are not efficiently priced in options markets, giving rise to arbitrage opportunities. We study these opportunities in a generic stochastic volatility model and exhibit the strateg…

2010-02-26abs ↗pdf ↗

A fund manager invests both the fund's assets and own private wealth in separate but potentially correlated risky assets, aiming to maximize expected utility from private wealth in the long run. If relative risk aversion and investment opportunities are constant, we find that the fund's portfolio depends only on the fu…

2012-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The study finds no evidence of stochastic arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.

problem Identifying arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.
method Developed linear and mixed-integer linear programs to compute the maximum option premium.
result No evidence of systematic stochastic arbitrage opportunities in S&P 500 index options.

AI systems that explain their decisions can be monitored for harmful intentions.

problem Monitoring AI systems' decision-making processes for harmful intentions is imperfect and can miss some misbehavior.
method Monitoring the chain of thought (CoT) of AI systems that communicate in human language.
result CoT monitoring is a promising but fragile approach to AI safety.

The professional services sector is at a turning point, with some industries showing growth opportunities.

problem Identifying growth opportunities in the professional services sector after decades of growth.
method A simple framework applied to the US economic context to diagnose growth opportunities.
result The professional services sector is expected to stall at a national level, but some industries still offer growth opportunities.

New methods evaluate stock market anomalies for prospect investors.

problem Determining if new securities or investment changes improve prospect investors' opportunities.
method Developed and implemented a new testing procedure for prospect spanning using subsampling and Linear Programming.
result Many well-known anomalies expand prospect investors' opportunity sets, indicating real economic value.

We study the origins of the dt\sqrt{dt} effect in finance and SDE. In particular, we show, in the game-theoretic framework, that market volatility is a consequence of the absence of riskless opportunities for making money and that too high volatility is also incompatible with such opportunities. More precisely, riskles…

2018-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a new framework for Hermite fractional financial markets, generalizing the fractional Brownian motion and fractional Rosenblatt markets. Considering pure and mixed Hermite markets, we introduce a strategy-specific arbitrage tax on the rate of transaction volume acceleration of the hedging portfolio as the pr…

2017-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper investigates cyclic arbitrage opportunities in decentralized exchanges.

problem Price discrepancies in decentralized exchanges lead to arbitrage opportunities.
method Theoretical framework and analysis of transaction-level data.
result Traders have executed over 292,606 cyclic arbitrages over eleven months, exploiting more than 138 million USD in revenue.

An arbitrage strategy allows a financial agent to make certain profit out of nothing, i.e., out of zero initial investment. This has to be disallowed on economic basis if the market is in equilibrium state, as opportunities for riskless profit would result in an instantaneous movement of prices of certain financial ins…

2010-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes arbitrage opportunities in a large investor market with common stock noises.

problem Identifying arbitrage opportunities in a market with many competitive investors.
method Stochastic differential games and mean-field systems to study market dynamics and optimal arbitrage.
result Optimal arbitrage is characterized by a solution to a Cauchy PDE involving volatility terms.

We generalize the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) to include the contribution of virtual arbitrage opportunities. We model the arbitrage return by a stochastic process. The latter is incorporated in the APT framework to calculate the correction to the APT due to the virtual arbitrage opportunities. The resulting relatio…

1999-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks can find financial arbitrage opportunities without needing market models.

problem Finding arbitrage opportunities in financial markets without using market models.
method Used neural networks to solve convex semi-infinite programs and detect arbitrage opportunities.
result Neural networks can detect model-free static arbitrage strategies in financial markets.

Paper uses GNNs to efficiently detect profitable triangular arbitrage opportunities.

problem Detecting profitable triangular arbitrage opportunities in dynamic markets.
method Formulate the problem as a graph-based optimization task and use a GNN architecture to capture complex relationships.
result GNN-based method achieves higher average yield with reduced computational time compared to traditional methods.

Study financial contracts pricing in markets with nonproportional costs and constraints.

problem Financial contract pricing in markets with nonproportional transaction costs and portfolio constraints.
method Direct and dual characterization of market-consistent prices with acceptable risk thresholds.
result Extension of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing to include good deals and scalable good deals.

This paper analyzes optimal stopping regions for American options with Poisson exercise opportunities.

problem Analyzing the optimal stopping regions for American options with Poisson exercise opportunities.
method Computing identities related to the first Poisson arrival time to an interval and applying them to the computation of the optimal strategies.
result Explicit expressions of the stopping and continuation regions and the value function are obtained.

This paper explains CART random forests using stochastic control theory.

problem Understanding the inner workings of CART random forests.
method Developed a stochastic-control perspective on CART random forests, interpreting feature subsampling as a random feasible action set and the split rule as a policy.
result Established that the CART policy is locally stabilizing but globally suboptimal for the forest objective.

We study arbitrage opportunities, market viability and utility maximization in market models with an insider. Assuming that an economic agent possesses from the beginning an additional information in the form of a random variable G, which only becomes known to the ordinary agents at date T, we give criteria for the No …

2016-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

SLIC-UAV monitors forest recovery using UAVs and machine learning.

problem Challenges in monitoring forest recovery, especially in logged tropical forests.
method Novel pipeline for UAV imagery analysis, combining crown labelling, species classification, and superpixel segmentation.
result SLIC-UAV achieves high accuracy in species mapping, from 79.3% to 90.5%.

Quantum ML promises faster data analysis but faces trainability challenges.

problem Challenges in training quantum machine learning models.
method Review of current methods and applications of quantum neural networks and quantum deep learning.
result Opportunities for quantum advantage in quantum machine learning.

In a market with one safe and one risky asset, an investor with a long horizon, constant investment opportunities, and constant relative risk aversion trades with small proportional transaction costs. We derive explicit formulas for the optimal investment policy, its implied welfare, liquidity premium, and trading volu…

2011-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗