Paper introduces PHI to identify structurally distinct payment patterns in UK municipal procurement.
problem Vulnerability of public procurement to error, fraud, and corruption in high-volume transactions.
method Introduces Payment Heterogeneity Index (PHI) using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and non-parametric statistics.
result Identifies a significant cohort with structurally distinct payment patterns, improving procurement oversight.
Stablecoins offer efficient settlement but externalize costs and risks.
problem Comparing stablecoins to card networks in retail payments.
method Unified analytical framework (CLEAR) across five dimensions.
result Stablecoins are advantageous in closed-loop and high-friction contexts but structurally disadvantaged as open-loop instruments.
Research examines motivations and factors influencing retailers' payment method choices.
problem Understanding motivations and factors affecting retailers' payment method choices.
method Qualitative and quantitative analysis of various factors including regulatory constraints, merchant service providers, and demographic variables.
result Lower interchange fees and regulatory constraints make card payment adoption financially feasible for merchants.
The paper examines clearing payments in financial networks to prevent cascaded defaults.
problem Cascaded defaults in financial networks under the proportionality rule.
method Analysis of clearing model under pro-rated payments, derivation of necessary and sufficient conditions for clearing payments, convex optimization problems for computation.
result Clearing payments can be computed by solving convex optimization problems, reducing overall system loss by lifting the proportionality rule.
We propose a model in which dividend payments occur at regular, deterministic intervals in an otherwise continuous model. This contrasts traditional models where either the payment of continuous dividends is controlled or the dynamics are given by discrete time processes. Moreover, between two dividend payments, the st…
Paper examines constraints on cryptocurrency networks to improve liquidity and capital costs.
problem Improving liquidity in cryptocurrency networks with limited capital deposits.
method Introduces constraints to bound loss in default scenarios and simplifies network structure.
result Achieves optimal tradeoff between liquidity and capital costs in payment networks.
Paper introduces balanced payment systems to improve liquidity and risk management.
problem Managing liquidity in payment systems and economy is a persistent challenge.
method Introduces interbank balancing method to private payment systems and others.
result Demonstrates effects of balancing on a small example and constructs a balanced subsystem.
Analyzes how financial network dependencies can lead to multiple equilibrium outcomes and optimal bailout strategies.
problem Multiple equilibrium outcomes in financial networks due to dependency cycles.
method Characterized necessary and sufficient conditions for bank solvency, and provided upper bounds on optimal bailout payments.
result Minimum bailout payments needed to ensure systemic solvency and prevent cascading defaults.
The study reveals fundamental limits of fraud detection in card payment networks.
problem Fraud detection in card payment networks is challenging due to structural information impairments.
method Formalized card authorization as a sequential decision problem with delayed feedback, derived minimax regret lower bound.
result Improving issuer reporting quality or reducing censorship can yield larger reductions in the regret floor than increasing model complexity.
A new method streamlines digital payment programming using smart contracts.
problem High costs and security challenges in programming smart contracts for digital payments.
method Transforming digital currencies into token streams and using configurable templates to generate specialized smart contracts.
result Reduces payment programming costs and enhances security, self-enforcement, adaptability, and controllability.
Game theory applied to financial networks, focusing on debt repayment strategies.
problem Understanding financial stability in interconnected systems.
method Modeling financial systems as networks, analyzing utility-maximizing strategies under priority-proportional payments.
result Existence and uniqueness of payment profiles are not guaranteed, even under fixed strategies.
This paper considers the optimal dividend payment problem in piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk models. The objective is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. We provide a comparative study in this general framework of both restricted and unrestricted payment schemes, wh…
This paper presents the first topological analysis of the economic structure of an entire country based on payments data obtained from Swedbank. This data set is exclusive in its kind because around 80% of Estonia's bank transactions are done through Swedbank, hence, the economic structure of the country can be reconst…
Develops a framework to analyze financial structures.
problem Difficulty in systematic analysis, comparison, and verification of financial structures.
method Formalizes financial structures as structured allocation systems with explicit allocation operators.
result Specifies inputs, structural requirements, and feasibility restrictions for financial structures.
A new model calculates optimal clearing payments in dynamic financial networks.
problem Determining fair clearing payments in networks with potential defaults.
method Extends Eisenberg-Noe model to multiple time periods, solving linear programs for optimal payments.
result Proves the model satisfies the priority of debt claims requirement and finds unique optimal payments.
Payments data and machine learning improve nowcasting accuracy for macroeconomic indicators.
problem Lagged indicators in linear models are insufficient during crisis periods.
method Non-traditional payments data, nonlinear machine learning, and tailored cross-validation.
result Improved macroeconomic nowcasting accuracy up to 40% during crises.
Blockchain helps secure payments between AI agents.
problem Ensuring secure payments between untrusted AI agents.
method Systematized four-stage lifecycle for A2A payments on blockchain.
result Challenges remain in weak intent binding, misuse, and limited accountability.
Optimal student loan repayment strategies vary based on loan size.
problem Finding the most cost-effective repayment strategy for federal student loans.
method Analyzing the impact of different repayment strategies on total cost for varying loan sizes.
result Optimal repayment strategies depend on the loan balance, with different approaches for small, large, and intermediate balances.
We consider in this paper the optimal dividend problem for an insurance company whose uncontrolled reserve process evolves as a classical Cramér--Lundberg process. The firm has the option of investing part of the surplus in a Black--Scholes financial market. The objective is to find a strategy consisting of both invest…
Agent-to-agent finance aims to manage payments and trust for AI agents.
problem Managing financial interactions between autonomous AI agents.
method Develops agent-to-agent finance concept and explores blockchain solutions.
result Agent-to-agent finance can address coordination frictions in financial markets.
Study risk-minimizing insurance investments with taxes and expenses.
problem Determining optimal insurance investments in the presence of taxes and expenses.
method Introduced tax- and expense-modified risk-minimization, derived strategies, linked to decompositions, and established equivalence to artificial market approach.
result Equivalence to artificial market approach and consistency with classic risk-minimization.
The paper analyzes multivariate payments in multi-state life insurance using Markovian state processes.
problem Analyzing joint effects of life annuities and death benefits in a multi-state framework.
method Introduces multivariate present value of future payments, derives differential equations and moment generating functions, and focuses on pair-wise covariances.
result Derives Hattendorff type results for pair-wise covariances in a disability model.
Our article considers the class of recently developed stochastic models that combine claims payments and incurred losses information into a coherent reserving methodology. In particular, we develop a family of Heirarchical Bayesian Paid-Incurred-Claims models, combining the claims reserving models of Hertig et al. (198…
AI task delegation faces incentive collapse with unbounded payments as AI accuracy rises.
problem Incentive collapse in AI-assisted task delegation schemes.
method General impossibility result and sentinel-auditing payment mechanism.
result Sentinel-auditing mechanism enforces positive human effort at finite cost, independent of AI accuracy.
Mobile payment incentives optimized using merchant transaction networks.
problem Optimizing marketing campaigns with limited budgets.
method Graph representation learning on transaction networks.
result Effective modeling of merchant sensitivity to incentives.
New taxonomy reveals different detection limits for various types of fraud.
problem Existing fraud detection treats all fraud as the same, ignoring its diverse forms.
method Introduced an observation-mechanism taxonomy with five fraud classes.
result Separate estimation by fraud class outperforms pooled estimation.
This paper concerns an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company with surplus-dependent premium. In the absence of dividend payments, such a risk process is a particular case of so-called piecewise deterministic Markov processes. The control mechanism chooses the size of dividend payments. The obje…
We develop an axiomatic theory of balance functions (future value functions) in the theory of interest that is derived from financial considerations and which applies to general regulated payment streams, including continuous payment streams. Balance functions exist and are unique up to an initial choice of deposit and…
Study on incentivizing truthfulness in federated learning with heterogeneous data.
problem Manipulated updates in federated learning due to data heterogeneity.
method Formulated a game-theoretic approach to prevent clients from misreporting their gradient updates.
result Developed a payment rule that provably disincentivizes sending modified updates in federated learning.
A new method for clearing liability networks using sheaves on directed hypergraphs.
problem Clearing in liability networks using a novel mathematical approach.
method Associate a liability sheaf on a directed hypergraph to a liability network, identifying clearing configurations as global sections of this sheaf.
result Clearing configurations are precisely the global sections of the sheaf, and the sheaf construction is functorial under change of coefficient category.
New option type preserves fungibility by amortizing payments over time.
problem Traditional installment options destroy fungibility and lapse when payments stop.
method Introduces amortizing perpetual options (AmPOs) with an implicit payment scheme.
result Valuation of AmPOs reduces to vanilla perpetual American options.
Study claims trading to rescue banks in distress.
problem Rescue a bank in distress using claims trading.
method Formalize claims trading in financial networks, study decision and optimization problems, provide efficient algorithms for creditor-positive trades.
result No trade can strictly improve both banks' assets; provide efficient algorithms for creditor-positive trades.
This paper concerns an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company whose risk process evolves as a spectrally negative Lévy process (in the absence of dividend payments). The management of the company is assumed to control timing and size of dividend payments. The objective is to maximize the sum of …
Optimizes tax payments for insurance companies using Lévy risk processes.
problem Maximizing expected accumulated discounted tax payments with a modified objective function.
method Loss-carry-forward tax system applied to spectrally negative Lévy processes until general draw-down time.
result Optimal tax return function and strategy derived.
Study evaluates AD methods for fraud detection in online credit card payments.
problem Fraud detection in online credit card payments using anomaly detection methods.
method Assessed several recent anomaly detection methods and compared them with standard supervised learning methods.
result LightGBM outperforms other methods but is more sensitive to distribution shifts.
We analyze the classical model of compound interest with a constant per-period payment and interest rate. We examine the outstanding balance function as well as the periodic payment function and show that the outstanding balance function is not generally concave in the interest rate, but instead may be initially convex…
DyFEn simulates blockchain for fee setting in payment channels.
problem Dynamic fee setting in off-chain payment channels.
method Agent-based reinforcement learning in a blockchain simulation.
result Empirical results of reinforcement learning methods on dynamic fee setting.
Optimal dividend strategy for insurance company in foreign currency.
problem Maximizing dividends paid in a foreign currency until ruin.
method Spectrally negative Lévy process, exponentially Lévy exchange rate, Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation.
result Single dividend barrier strategy is optimal.
Study online linear regression with paid noise reduction.
problem Online linear regression with noisy features and the ability to pay for reduced noise.
method Analyzes regret against optimal predictor, uses matrix martingale concentration.
result Optimal regret rates for known and unknown noise covariance.
We consider the problem of maximizing the discounted utility of dividend payments of an insurance company whose reserves are modeled as a classical Cramér-Lundberg risk process. We investigate this optimization problem under the constraint that dividend rate is bounded. We prove that the value function fulfills the Ham…
Study preferences over uncertain time payments, finds growth-optimality better than expected utility theory.
problem Understanding how people make decisions with uncertain timing of payments.
method Normative model of growth-optimality, revisiting experimental evidence on time lotteries.
result Growth-optimality better explains experimental data on time lotteries than expected discounted utility theory.
A scheme incentivizes agents to provide high-quality data early in federated learning.
problem Incentivizing high-quality data in federated learning.
method Characterization of influence on loss function, payment structure design, efficient influence approximation.
result The scheme ensures truthful data reporting as a game-theoretic equilibrium and is robust to mixtures of truthful and heuristic data reports.
This paper provides a framework for modeling the financial system with multiple illiquid assets during a crisis. This work generalizes the paper by Amini, Filipovic and Minca (2016) by allowing for differing liquidation strategies. The main result is a proof of sufficient conditions for the existence of an equilibrium …
Optimizes cash management in ATM networks to reduce costs and increase revenue.
problem Minimizing cash costs while ensuring adequate funds in a network of ATMs.
method Developed a discrete optimal control model using forecasting techniques and control theory.
result The proposed model outperforms classical inventory management models, earning 30% more revenue.
FraudTransformer detects payment fraud by preserving event order and time gaps.
problem Detecting payment fraud in real-world banking streams with irregular time gaps.
method Augments a GPT-style architecture with a dedicated time encoder and a learned positional encoder.
result FraudTransformer outperforms classical and transformer baselines, achieving highest AUROC and PRAUC on held-out test set.
Proposes a model to incentivize exploration in web platforms with payments.
problem Learning and social welfare goals of web platforms with myopic users.
method Contextual bandit model with payments to incentivize exploration.
result Achieves sublinear regret while maximizing cumulative social welfare.
This article describes and explores taxes and debt in finance. Here a situation is thought about, where tax payments would qualify to be considered as debt. Using this principle we can infer that it is possible to create and price a type of bond (Tax Normalization Guarantee) for companies, which would allow them to ent…
We model the term structure of the forward default intensity and the default density by using Lévy random fields, which allow us to consider the credit derivatives with an after-default recovery payment. As applications, we study the pricing of a defaultable bond and represent the pricing kernel as the unique solution …