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.
We study an optimal investment control problem for an insurance company. The surplus process follows the Cramer-Lundberg process with perturbation of a Brownian motion. The company can invest its surplus into a risk free asset and a Black-Scholes risky asset. The optimization objective is to minimize the probability of…
Study examines herding behavior in stocks, US ETFs, and cryptocurrencies.
problem Understanding herding behavior in different types of investment vehicles.
method Cross-sectional Absolute Deviation model, Minimum Spanning Tree, Louvain community detection.
result Herding behavior exists at all times across all types of investment vehicles at a subset level.
Investment decisions shift earlier as patience decreases, with implications for pasting conditions.
problem Investment timing under decreasing impatience.
method Game-theoretic framework with continuous-time capacity expansion problem.
result Decreasing impatience leads to earlier investment decisions, but can violate smooth pasting conditions.
The paper models insurance market dynamics under uncertainty and financial frictions.
problem Modeling insurer behavior under uncertainty and financial frictions.
method Dynamic equilibrium model of insurance market with competitive insurers maximizing shareholder value.
result Investment can lead to lower insurance prices and negative loadings under certain conditions.
Empirical evidence supports new financial market definitions.
problem Investor risk attitudes in financial markets.
method Developed a new method to analyze risk attitudes.
result Risk-averse behavior in equity investors, risk-loving behavior in risk-free asset investors.
When we implement a portfolio selection methodology under a mean-risk formulation, it is essential to correctly model investors' risk aversion which may be time-dependent, or even state-dependent during the investment procedure. In this paper, we propose a behavior risk aversion model, which is a piecewise linear funct…
Young investors, especially students, dominate Indonesian stock exchanges.
problem Investment behavior of young and rookie investors in the stock market.
method Qualitative approach with descriptive analysis and interviews.
result Perception of behavioral control influences investment decisions.
Study shows institutional investments significantly impact cryptocurrency market evolution.
problem Limited understanding of institutional investments' role in cryptocurrency market evolution.
method Quantitative analysis of 1324 cryptocurrencies' investments from 2014-2022.
result Institutional investments correlate with cryptocurrency market capitalization.
ChatGPT improves financial reasoning, overcoming biases in gold investment.
problem Improving financial reasoning and overcoming biases in investment decisions.
method Applied advanced prompt engineering and semantic news information to enhance LLMs' performance.
result ChatGPT with CoT prompt provides more explainable predictions and higher investment returns.
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.
The paper analyzes frameworks for integrating sustainability into investment decisions.
problem Understanding how ESG factors influence investment choices.
method Examined and analyzed various theoretical frameworks including Behavioral Finance, Modern Portfolio, and Risk Management.
result Investors increasingly integrate ESG factors to optimize financial outcomes and societal goals.
Study optimal investment with herd behavior using rational decision decomposition.
problem Optimal investment problem considering herd behavior between two agents.
method Introduce average deviation term, use variational method, rational decision decomposition, investment opinion.
result Quantitative analysis of herd behavior impact on investment decisions.
Proposes a comprehensive framework for financial product lead recommendations using graph representation learning and link prediction.
problem Challenges in surface lead recommendations for financial products due to changing market scenarios and difficulty in capturing holder's mindset.
method Bi-partite graph representation of financial holders and funds, GraphSage model for learning representations, link prediction model for ranking recommendations.
result The proposed graph ML solution outperforms baseline by 42%, 22%, and 14% in hit rate for top-k recommendations (50, 100, 200) and 18%, 19%, and 18% on unseen holders.
A strategy to beat benchmarks by investing in heavily shorted but fundamentally sound securities.
problem Overcoming behavioral biases in investing, particularly the 'rebound effect'.
method Quantitative metrics, historical data, and securities lending modeling.
result The Bounce Basket strategy can outperform market returns during market downturns.
On a daily investment decision in a security market, the price earnings (PE) ratio is one of the most widely applied methods being used as a firm valuation tool by investment experts. Unfortunately, recent academic developments in financial econometrics and machine learning rarely look at this tool. In practice, fundam…
We provide easily verifiable conditions for the well-posedness of the optimal investment problem for a behavioral investor in an incomplete discrete-time multiperiod financial market model, for the first time in the literature. Under two different sets of assumptions we also establish the existence of optimal strategie…
This paper studies robust forward investment and consumption preferences within a zero-volatility context. Different from previous works, we consider an incomplete financial market model due to general investment portfolio constraints. We provide a new PDE characterization and a novel semi-explicit saddle-point constru…
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.
The paper models cryptocurrency market bubbles using agent-based models.
problem Understanding speculative bubbles in cryptocurrency markets.
method Agent-based models and ODE models to estimate return rates and market values.
result Formulated formula for total system risk.
The European Union and Eurozone present an inquisitive case of strongly interconnected network with high degree of dependence among nodes. This research focused on investment network of European Union and its major trading partners for specific time period 2001 to 2014. The changing investment patterns within Eurozone …
This paper proposes an embedding-based neural network for more accurate investment return prediction.
problem Accurately predicting investment returns requires understanding industry knowledge and news, as well as leveraging relevant theories.
method The approach uses embedding to encode investment IDs into low-dimensional vectors, leveraging dual branches to separate different information, and employs the swish activation function.
result The proposed embedding-based dual branch model outperforms traditional machine learning models like Xgboost, Lightgbm, and Catboost on the Ubiquant Market Prediction dataset.
Cost-benefit analysis often assumes accurate estimates, but this study finds significant inaccuracies.
problem Inaccurate cost and benefit estimates in public investments.
method Largest dataset of public investments, statistical analysis of cost overruns and benefit shortfalls.
result Significant inaccuracies in cost and benefit estimates of public investments.
Investigates the use of Information Coefficient as a stock selection model performance measure.
problem The adequacy and effectiveness of Information Coefficient (IC) for evaluating stock selection models is unclear.
method Simulation and simple statistical modeling to examine IC behavior statically and dynamically.
result Proposes two practical procedures for IC-based ongoing performance monitoring of stock selection models.
We determine the optimal amount to invest in a Black-Scholes financial market for an individual who consumes at a rate equal to a constant proportion of her wealth and who wishes to minimize the expected time that her wealth spends in drawdown during her lifetime. Drawdown occurs when wealth is less than some fixed pro…
Investment herding can reduce household consumption, a phenomenon called crowding-out effect.
problem Investment herding's impact on household consumption.
method Optimal control theory to model and solve for household investment and consumption decisions.
result Existence of crowding-out effect due to investment herding.
Assuming that agents' preferences satisfy first-order stochastic dominance, we show how the Expected Utility paradigm can rationalize all optimal investment choices: the optimal investment strategy in any behavioral law-invariant (state-independent) setting corresponds to the optimum for an expected utility maximizer w…
Study uses deep learning to predict stock trends with superior performance.
problem Predicting short-term equity trends with high accuracy.
method Dual-task multilayer perceptron (MLP) integrating technical signals and deep learning.
result Deep learning model outperforms linear baselines in multi-factor stock selection.
Social media reduces individual investors' disposition effect through negative information.
problem The disposition effect in individual investors selling profitable assets too early and holding onto losing assets for too long.
method Analysis of post data and trading data from Xueqiu.com.
result Social media information significantly reduces the disposition effect.
We investigate whether fractal markets hypothesis and its focus on liquidity and invest- ment horizons give reasonable predictions about dynamics of the financial markets during the turbulences such as the Global Financial Crisis of late 2000s. Compared to the mainstream efficient markets hypothesis, fractal markets hy…
Turnover-adjusted IR is always lower than classic IR, suggesting managers can improve performance by limiting turnover.
problem The classic relationship between IR and its determinants does not account for turnover costs.
method Mathematical derivations and simulations considering volatility of information coefficient and portfolio turnover.
result Turnover-adjusted IR is lower and managers can improve performance by limiting turnover.
Investigates optimal strategies for behavioral control problems with finite variation controls.
problem Behavioral singular stochastic control problems with finite variation controls.
method Abstract framework, applied to storage management and portfolio investment problems, using CPT preferences and Skorokhod representation theorem.
result Existence of optimal strategies for various goal functionals, including CPT preferences.
We use the theory of large deviations to study the pricing of investment-grade tranches of synthetic CDO's. In this paper, we consider a heterogeneous pool of names. Our main tool is a large-deviations analysis which allows us to precisely study the behavior of a large amount of idiosyncratic randomness. Our calculatio…
By exploiting a bipartite network representation of the relationships between mutual funds and portfolio holdings, we propose an indicator that we derive from the analysis of the network, labelled the Average Commonality Coefficient (ACC), which measures how frequently the assets in the fund portfolio are present in th…
Policy shifts between Trump and Biden impact ESG investments, creating volatility.
problem Dramatic policy shifts between Trump and Biden administrations affect ESG investments.
method Analyzes contrasting policies of Trump and Biden administrations and their impacts on ESG investments.
result Policy changes significantly influence ESG investments, leading to volatility and portfolio reassessment.
This note investigates the causes of the quality anomaly, which is one of the strongest and most scalable anomalies in equity markets. We explore two potential explanations. The "risk view", whereby investing in high quality firms is somehow riskier, so that the higher returns of a quality portfolio are a compensation …
Study uses RL to optimize dynamic portfolios, addressing non-stationarity and constraints.
problem Non-stationarity and investment constraints in dynamic portfolio optimization.
method Reinforcement learning with regime change variables and practical constraints integration.
result Enhanced prediction accuracy through incorporation of regime change variables.
New framework for portfolio management using binomial markets and game theory.
problem Investment behavior in competitive and incomplete markets.
method Introduces PRFPP framework, constructs and analyzes for both finite and mean field games.
result Relative performance concerns do not always lead to more risky asset investment.
The numeraire portfolio in a financial market is the unique positive wealth process that makes all other nonnegative wealth processes, when deflated by it, supermartingales. The numeraire portfolio depends on market characteristics, which include: (a) the information flow available to acting agents, given by a filtrati…
Game theory models storage investment to balance market competition and profits.
problem Strategic storage investment impacts electricity market prices and revenues.
method Formulated a non-cooperative game between investors to model strategic storage decisions.
result Increasing storage capacity reduces individual profits but increases total investment.
In this paper, we develop an expected utility model for the retirement behavior in the decumulation phase of Australian retirees with sequential family status subject to consumption, housing, investment, bequest and government provided means-tested Age Pension. We account for mortality risk and risky investment assets,…
In this paper, making use of recent statistical physics techniques and models, we address the specific role of randomness in financial markets, both at the micro and the macro level. In particular, we review some recent results obtained about the effectiveness of random strategies of investment, compared with some of t…
DBOT uses AI to automate long-term stock valuation.
problem Automating long-term stock valuation using AI.
method DBOT uses generative AI to reason about company valuations.
result DBOT can value any publicly traded company and is comparable to Aswath Damodaran.
We show that financial correlations exhibit a non-trivial dynamic behavior. We introduce a simple phenomenological model of a multi-asset financial market, which takes into account the impact of portfolio investment on price dynamics. This captures the fact that correlations determine the optimal portfolio but are affe…
Research identifies four motivational groups for crypto-metaverse landowners.
problem Understanding motivations of retail investors in the crypto-metaverse.
method Detailed financial behavior survey and principal components analysis.
result Four distinct motivational groups identified: Aesthetics, Social, Speculation, Innovation.
In this paper we present an interacting-agent model of stock markets. We describe a stock market through an Ising-like model in order to formulate the tendency of traders getting to be influenced by the other traders' investment attitudes [1], and formulate the traders' decision-making regarding investment as the maxim…
LLMs show biases in investment analysis, leading to unreliable recommendations.
problem LLMs face conflicts between pre-trained knowledge and real-time market data, leading to biases in investment analysis.
method Experimental framework to investigate emergent behaviors in LLMs, analyzing sector, size, and momentum biases.
result Distinct, model-specific biases observed, including a tendency to prefer technology stocks, large-cap stocks, and contrarian strategies.
Study analyzes market co-movements in critical mineral investments using change point detection and cross-sectional analysis.
problem Market dynamics in critical mineral investments during significant global events.
method Combines change-point detection (PELT algorithm) with cross-sectional analysis on ESG-ranked ETFs.
result Investors herded during market downturns and shifted to anti-herding after positive news and geopolitical shocks.