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Study shows financial literacy, social capital, and financial tech positively impact financial inclusion of Indonesian students.

problem Financial literacy, social capital, and financial technology's impact on financial inclusion of Indonesian students.
method Quantitative research using questionnaires distributed to 100 students from 7 private colleges in Tangerang, Indonesia.
result Financial literacy, social capital, and financial technology have a positive and significant influence on financial inclusion.

The study infers risk preferences from portfolio choices and measures portfolio efficiency.

problem Measuring the efficiency of household investment portfolios based on risk preferences.
method Statistical analysis of portfolio choices and demographic information over six years.
result Implied risk aversion increases with wealth and financial literacy, impacting portfolio efficiency.

Experts predict significant adoption of decentralized finance by 2034, with traditional finance adapting.

problem Adoption and integration of decentralized finance (DeFi) in financial services.
method Survey analysis using New Institutional Economics and Dynamic Capabilities Theory.
result Experts expect adoption of DeFi to rise from negligible to 43% by 2034, with traditional finance likely to embrace it.

Study uses XAI and transformers for stock price prediction of top 100 BIST banks.

problem Enhancing interpretability and accuracy of stock price predictions.
method Combines transformer-based time series models with XAI techniques.
result Transformer models show strong predictive capabilities and provide feature transparency.

FinMaster benchmarks LLMs in financial tasks, revealing gaps in reasoning.

problem Challenges in financial tasks, including labor-intensive processes and low error tolerance.
method Developed a comprehensive financial benchmark (FinMaster) with three modules: FinSim, FinSuite, and FinEval.
result LLMs struggle with complex financial reasoning, showing significant accuracy drops.

Investigates optimal life insurance and annuity decisions in inflationary economies.

problem Optimal consumption and investment decisions in an inflationary economy with money illusion.
method Formulated as a random horizon utility maximization problem, derived optimal strategy.
result Money illusion increases life insurance demand for young adults and reduces annuity demand for retirees.

How effective are the most common trading models? The answer may help investors realize upsides to using each model, act as a segue for investors into more complex financial analysis and machine learning, and to increase financial literacy amongst students. Creating original versions of popular models, like linear regr…

2019-07-21abs ↗pdf ↗

How can graph theory be applied to investing in the stock market? The answer may help investors realize the true risks of their investments, help prevent recessions like that of 2008, and increase financial literacy amongst students. Using several original Python programs, we take a correlation matrix with correlations…

2019-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

DPBD simplifies labeling functions through interactive demonstrations.

problem Difficulty in writing labeling functions for large-scale labeled training data.
method Data Programming by Demonstration (DPBD) framework using interactive demonstrations.
result Ruler system generates labeling rules more easily and with higher user satisfaction.

Natural experiment dataset reveals inconsistent treatment effect estimators.

problem Inconsistent results from over 20 estimators on a new dataset.
method Created a benchmark to evaluate estimator accuracy, derived variance formula, introduced new estimator.
result Doubly robust estimators outperform others by orders of magnitude.

Study examines financial structure's impact on non-financial firms' growth in Kenya.

problem Declining financial performance and growth of non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange.
method Analyzes the effect of financial structure on financial growth.
result Established the impact of financial structure on non-financial firms' growth.

Financial planners helped preserve and increase household net financial assets during the Great Recession.

problem Impact of financial planners on household net financial assets during the Great Recession.
method Utilized 2007-2009 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) panel dataset, analyzed 3,862 respondents.
result Starting to use a financial planner during the Great Recession had a positive impact on preserving and increasing household net financial assets.

Motivated by recent financial crises significant research efforts have been put into studying contagion effects and herding behaviour in financial markets. Much less has been said about influence of financial news on financial markets. We propose a novel measure of collective behaviour in financial news on the Web, New…

2014-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider dynamics of financial markets as dynamics of expectations and discuss such a dynamics from the point of view of phenomenological thermodynamics. We describe a financial Carnot cycle and the financial analogue of a heat machine. We see, that while in physics a perpetuum mobile is absolutely impossible, in ec…

2004-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This study presents an ANWSER model (asset network systemic risk model) to quantify the risk of financial contagion which manifests itself in a financial crisis. The transmission of financial distress is governed by a heterogeneous bank credit network and an investment portfolio of banks. Bankruptcy reproductive ratio …

2012-11-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper aims to use AI for detecting financial crimes, focusing on money laundering.

problem Financial institutions need better technologies to detect and predict financial crimes.
method Study recent works, develop a novel model for money laundering detection.
result Demonstrates a model for detecting money laundering cases with minimal human intervention.

UniFinEval benchmarks financial models across text, images, and videos.

problem Challenges in evaluating financial multimodal models across text, images, and videos.
method Proposes UniFinEval, a unified multimodal benchmark for financial scenarios.
result Gemini-3-pro-preview achieves best performance but still lags behind experts.

In this paper we show similarities between turbulence and financial systems. Motivated by similarities between the two systems, we construct a multiscale model for hierarchical financial structures that exhibits a constant cascade of wealth from large financial entities to small financial entities. According to our mod…

2019-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows long-term debt impacts financial growth of non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange.

problem Declining financial performance and reluctance to lend to non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange.
method Descriptive and panel data analysis of 45 non-financial firms over 10 years.
result Long-term debt positively and significantly influences financial growth measured by earnings per share and market capitalization.

Study assesses short-term debt's impact on non-financial firms' financial growth.

problem Declining financial performance and reluctance to lend to non-financial firms listed at Nairobi Securities Exchange.
method Explanatory research design, descriptive statistics, and panel data analysis.
result Short-term debt positively and significantly influences financial growth.

GNN improves financial risk detection in dynamic networks.

problem Complex, changing financial networks make traditional risk identification methods ineffective.
method Graph Neural Networks (GNN) for embedded representation learning of financial data.
result GNN enhances the detection of hidden risks and abnormal behaviors in financial networks.

This paper proposes non-stationary factor models for financial stress in the UK.

problem Managing financial vulnerabilities in the UK's complex financial system.
method Creation of non-stationary factor models to capture financial stress.
result Non-stationary factor models can better capture financial stress, especially tail events.

FinRobot opens-source AI for financial tasks, breaking down complex problems.

problem Barriers to AI adoption in finance due to proprietary data and specialized knowledge.
method Develops open-source AI agent platform with four layers: Financial AI Agents, LLM Algorithms, LLMOps/DataOps, and Foundation Models.
result FinRobot democratizes AI access for financial analysis.

Persistence norms explain financial uncertainty better than volatility.

problem Capturing financial instability and predictability.
method Applied topological data analysis to financial markets.
result Persistence norms are significant in explaining financial uncertainty, while volatility is less effective.

CoCos can increase financial fragility in certain network structures.

problem The effectiveness of CoCos in enhancing financial stability depends on the network structure.
method Analysis of phase transitions in a network of interconnected banks.
result CoCos can increase financial fragility under certain network structures.

Paper presents a novel time series clustering algorithm for financial inclusion.

problem Difficulty in understanding consumer financial behavior without restrictive credit scoring.
method Developed a novel time series clustering algorithm.
result Allows institutions to offer unique financial products based on customer needs.

InvestLM is a financial domain LLM tuned on LLaMA-65B for investment advice.

problem Improving financial text understanding and advice generation for investment.
method Curated financial instruction dataset, LLaMA-65B, less-is-more-for-alignment approach.
result InvestLM provides comparable responses to state-of-the-art commercial models.

This work develops an agent-based model for the study of how the leverage through the use of repurchase agreements can function as a mechanism for the propagation and amplification of financial shocks in a financial system. Based on the analysis of financial intermediaries in the repo and interbank lending markets duri…

2017-03-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces NumLLM for better financial text understanding with numeric variables.

problem Poor performance of existing financial large language models in numeric financial text.
method Constructed financial corpus, fine-tuned with LoRA modules, merged into foundation model.
result NumLLM achieves best performance on financial question-answering benchmark, especially with numeric questions.

Federated learning predicts financial distress across U.S. states without centralizing data.

problem Predicting financial distress across U.S. states using sensitive data without centralization.
method Cross-silo federated learning, interpretable AI techniques, machine learning model for categorical data.
result Identifies both global and state-specific predictors of financial hardship.

The study reveals asymmetries in US financial shocks' international impacts.

problem Analyzing nonlinearities in international financial spillovers.
method Developed a flexible nonlinear multi-country model to capture asymmetries in responses to financial shocks.
result Adverse shocks trigger stronger declines in output, inflation, and stock markets than benign shocks.

Investigates chaotic financial time series with monthly contributions and devaluation.

problem Analyzing chaotic behavior in financial processes with piecewise contributions and negative interest rates.
method Examines a financial process with monthly contributions and devaluation, showing dichotomy in behavior.
result Financial time series exhibit either periodic sequences or Cantor set of ω-limit points, with chaotic behavior at points of a Cantor attractor.