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.
This study improves valuation of post-revenue biopharmaceutical assets using Pfizer's data.
problem Accurate valuation of post-revenue drug assets in biotech and pharma.
method Historical sales data analysis to forecast future sales and calculate Net Present Value.
result Demonstrates a method for more informed investment decisions in biotech and pharma.
Study finds dividend payout policy positively impacts firm profitability.
problem Determining the optimal dividend payout ratio and its effect on financial performance.
method Panel data analysis of 60 Indian listed firms over 10 years, using ROA as a proxy for profitability.
result Positive and significant relationship between dividend payout policy and firm performance.
Study on Spanish households' investment choices in housing, deposits, and stocks.
problem Investment decisions of Spanish households in housing, deposits, and stocks.
method Theoretical model considering indivisible and illiquid housing assets, financial constraints, and actual choices compared.
result Households underinvest in stocks and deposits compared to optimal choices, but mortgage investments are efficient.
ML system reduces overdraft fees for Mint users.
problem Overdraft fees burden Americans, leading to financial hardship.
method ML-driven overdraft early warning system (ODEWS).
result Saved $3 million in overdraft fees for Mint customers.
In this work we study the optimal execution problem with multiplicative price impact in algorithm trading, when an agent holds an initial position of shares of a financial asset. The inter-selling-decision times are modelled by the arrival times of a Poisson process. The criterion to be optimised consists in maximising…
We study the impact of central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) transactions on counterparty exposures in a market with OTC transactions across several asset classes with heterogeneous characteristics. The impact of introducing a central counterparty (CCP) on expected interdealer exposure is determined by the tradeof…
It is well known that quantile regression model minimizes the portfolio extreme risk, whenever the attention is placed on the estimation of the response variable left quantiles. We show that, by considering the entire conditional distribution of the dependent variable, it is possible to optimize different risk and perf…
Study uses neural networks to filter financial spillovers from noise.
problem Accurately measuring spillovers in financial markets from noise.
method Neural network-based denoising of covariance matrices.
result Developed markets are net transmitters of volatility spillovers, but can become receivers during stress.
The Financial Chaos Index models stock market volatility across three regimes based on mutual price fluctuations.
problem Capturing regime-dependent volatility in stock markets.
method Developed a regime-switching framework using the Financial Chaos Index (FCIX) and elastic net regression.
result Identified three market regimes: low-chaos, intermediate-chaos, and high-chaos, each with distinct volatility characteristics.
Deep neural network detects asset bubbles with improved accuracy.
problem Detecting asset bubbles in financial markets.
method Developed a deep learning neural network to estimate diffusion coefficient of price processes.
result Improved detection of asset bubbles compared to existing methods.
We implement a systematic asset allocation model using the Historical Simulation with Flexible Probabilities (HS-FP) framework developed by Meucci. The HS-FP framework is a flexible non-parametric estimation approach that considers future asset class behavior to be conditional on time and market environments, and deriv…
Two models predict net loan losses using Bayesian and frequentist regression.
problem Predicting net loan losses using financial and sociological data.
method Bayesian and frequentist regression analysis.
result Improved understanding of net loan loss relationships.
Bayesian MS-VAR model for pricing equity-linked life insurance products.
problem Pricing and hedging equity-linked life insurance products on maximum of several assets.
method Introduces Bayesian Markov-Switching Vector Autoregressive (MS-VAR) process to model economic variables and insured's lifetime.
result Obtains net single premiums and hedging formulas for equity-linked life insurance products.
Study shows environmental spending positively impacts company profitability.
problem Impact of environmental spending on company profitability.
method Panel data regression analysis using E-Views.
result Environmental spending positively impacts profitability metrics.
Smart Close-out Netting aims to automate close-out netting processes.
problem Inefficiencies in close-out netting processes for financial institutions.
method Standardisation and automation of legal and regulatory processes using a data-driven framework and controlled natural language.
result Standardisation and automation can improve close-out netting processes for prudentially regulated financial institutions.
This paper analyzes how banking risks spread through sentiment and policy shocks.
problem Systemic risk in the U.S. banking system during the 2023 crisis.
method Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregression (TVP-VAR) model with 30-day rolling windows.
result Risk spillovers were driven by perceived similarities in bank business models under interest rate pressure.
Predicts financial asset dependencies using spatiotemporal patterns.
problem Complex dependency structures in financial assets for risk mitigation.
method Proposes Asset Dependency Matrix (ADM) and Asset Dependency Neural Network (ADNN) with ConvLSTM for spatiotemporal asset dependency prediction.
result ADNN outperforms baselines in predicting asset dependencies and their applications.
A new contrastive learning method extracts asset embeddings from financial time series.
problem Extracting meaningful latent features from noisy financial data.
method Contrastive learning framework using hypothesis testing for positive and negative samples.
result Effective asset embeddings significantly outperform existing methods on financial tasks.
Proposes neural model for stock embeddings to capture nuanced asset correlations.
problem Lack of research on modelling financial asset correlations.
method Neural model using historical returns data to learn nuanced relationships.
result Outperforms benchmarks in two real-world financial analytics tasks.
In our model, private actors with interbank cash flows similar to, but nore general than (Carmona, Fouque, Sun, 2013) borrow from the outside economy at a certain interest rate, controlled by the central bank, and invest in risky assets. Each private actor aims to maximize its expected terminal logarithmic utility. The…
regvis.net offers a visual survey of regulatory visualization.
problem Lack of a comprehensive resource for regulatory visualization.
method Collection and manual tagging of 80+ publications, creation of a searchable webpage.
result First publication set tailored for regulatory visualization.
Study introduces a new copula-based measure for financial asset cointegration.
problem Traditional correlation coefficient's limitations in measuring financial asset relationships.
method Utilizes copulas to measure dependence among financial asset returns.
result Enhanced stability and informativeness in measuring financial asset relationships.
The study addresses overlooked data-generating processes in time-series asset pricing.
problem The literature on time-series asset pricing overlooks the data-generating processes for factors expressed in return differences.
method The study proposes a new definition of returns and compound returns for factors, and uses OLS with net returns for single-index models.
result OLS with net returns for single-index models leads to inflated alphas, exaggerated t-values, and overestimated Sharpe ratios.
Modern financial networks exhibit a high degree of interconnectedness and determining the causes of instability and contagion in financial networks is necessary to inform policy and avoid future financial collapse. In the American Economic Review, Elliott, Golub and Jackson proposed a simple model for capturing the dyn…
Study approximates financial market with discrete-time models.
problem Approximating continuous-time financial market models with discrete-time.
method Constructs discrete-time market models with Markov switching and proves convergence.
result Discrete-time models converge to continuous-time Black-Scholes model with Markov switching.
Let Y be a sublattice of a vector lattice X. We consider the problem of identifying the smallest order closed sublattice of X containing Y. It is known that the analogy with topological closure fails. Let Yo be the order closure of Y consisting of all order limits of nets of elements from Y. T…
MANA-Net improves market predictions by dynamically weighting news sentiments.
problem Aggregated Sentiment Homogenization in financial news data.
method Dynamic market-news attention mechanism to aggregate sentiments.
result MANA-Net outperforms recent market prediction methods by 1.1% Profit & Loss and 0.252 daily Sharpe ratio.
I show the equivalence between a model of financial contagion and the threshold model of global cascades proposed by Watts (2002). The model financial network comprises banks that hold risky external assets as well as interbank assets. It is shown that a simple threshold model can replicate the size and the frequency o…
Digital transformation boosts corporate financial asset allocation, especially short-term.
problem Understanding how digital transformation affects corporate financial decisions.
method Fixed-effects models and staggered DID design using A-share listed companies data.
result Digital transformation significantly promotes corporate financial asset allocation, more pronounced in short-term.
Study examines financial contagion at community level, finding increased contagion density and widespread transmission.
problem Understanding and managing financial contagion in interconnected markets.
method High-frequency data, Louvain community detection, Vector Autoregression, Tracy-Widom random matrix theory.
result Contagion density increases over time, and there is no significant difference between intra- and inter-community contagion.
The paper analyzes the pricing of a new compute futures asset.
problem Uncertainty in AI adoption and pricing of compute capital.
method An asset-pricing framework for compute futures, including synthetic futures pricing.
result Preliminary evidence suggests a positive compute risk premium.
Paper uses DDQN for trading assets, showing better performance than market benchmarks.
problem Improving financial trading strategies using AI.
method Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) algorithm for trading multiple assets.
result Trading agent outperformed market benchmarks and achieved higher net asset value.
New model uses financial news to predict stock returns.
problem Predicting stock returns based on financial news.
method Derive company embedding vectors from news, select basis assets, and use statistical methods.
result NEUS model outperforms Fama-French 5-factor model.
Method detects and visualizes changes in financial markets' asset relationships.
problem Detecting and explaining changes in financial markets' asset relationships.
method Construct co-occurrence networks, calculate Graph-Based Entropy, apply Differential Network.
result Visualization of changes in financial markets with high interpretability.
RMT-Net tackles biased credit scoring data by learning from both default/non-default and rejection/approval tasks.
problem Missing-not-at-random selection bias in financial credit scoring data.
method Reject-aware Multi-Task Network (RMT-Net) that leverages the correlation between default/non-default and rejection/approval tasks.
result RMT-Net improves credit scoring models by learning from both default/non-default and rejection/approval tasks.
TradeMech nets trades without changing counterparty relationships.
problem Netting trades without altering counterparty exposure in complex financial networks.
method Transforms contracts into chains and cycles, nets designated object multilaterally, and replaces contracts with new multiparty agreements.
result Maximal multilateral netting of a designated object while preserving each agent's profit and counterparty risk.
A new model captures financial asset returns' tail behaviors and outperforms GARCH family.
problem Capturing the dynamic tail behaviors of financial asset returns.
method Combines LSTM with a novel parametric quantile function.
result Out-of-sample forecasts of conditional quantiles or VaR outperform GARCH family.
Paper proposes a CNN model for improved multi-asset portfolio risk prediction.
problem Challenges in risk management of multi-asset portfolios due to limited correlation capture.
method Uses CNN and image processing to convert financial data into images for enhanced feature extraction.
result CNN model significantly outperforms traditional methods in risk prediction accuracy.
A motif-based framework identifies local spillover structures in financial markets.
problem Aggregate risk spillovers obscure local interaction patterns in systemic risk.
method Develops a motif-based framework using multiscale backbones and colored motifs.
result Motif-based portfolios outperform traditional benchmarks on risk-adjusted returns.
New automated market makers for multi-asset trading.
problem Liquidity management in multi-asset trading.
method Derived from self-financing transactions and rebalancing principles.
result Constant product market maker as a special case.
Trading styles affect long-run variance of asset prices, increasing under trend-following and decreasing under mean-reverting.
problem Understanding how different trading styles impact the long-run variance of asset prices.
method Probabilistic models designed to capture the direction of trading were used.
result Trading styles increase long-run variance under trend-following and decrease it under mean-reverting conditions.
We extend to the multi-asset case the framework of a discrete time model of a single asset financial market developed in Ghoulmie et al (2005). In particular, we focus on adaptive agents with threshold behavior allocating their resources among two assets. We explore numerically the effect of this diversification as an …
Review of financial dependencies using econophysics and financial economics.
problem Analyzing financial dependencies between markets.
method Combining econophysics and financial economics approaches to model financial markets.
result Information filtering networks effectively describe financial dependencies.
It is known that asset exchange models with symmetric interaction between agents show either a Gibbs/log-normal distribution of assets among the agents or condensation of the entire wealth in the hands of a single agent, depending upon the rules of exchange. Here we explore the effects of introducing asymmetry in the i…
A new RL framework tackles asset allocation problems using Monte Carlo simulation.
problem Existing asset allocation methods fail to consider portfolio management and financial market characteristics.
method Proposes a new reinforcement learning framework that considers portfolio state and uses Monte Carlo simulation to prevent overfitting.
result The proposed method outperforms benchmarks in various test intervals.
In complete markets, there are risky assets and a riskless asset. It is assumed that the riskless asset and the risky asset are traded continuously in time and that the market is frictionless. In this paper, we propose a new method for hedging derivatives assuming that a hedger should not always rely on trading existin…
The paper shows how cross-ownership increases equity correlations during financial crises.
problem Understanding and explaining rising correlations in financial markets during crises.
method Examined interlinkages among firms through a financial network, mathematically relating equity correlations to asset correlations and network sensitivity.
result Equity correlations are higher than asset correlations, and this relationship is independent of the equities level.