Developed Merton's model for public companies using observed liabilities.
problem Estimating default risk for public companies.
method Campbell and Shiller's approximation method for risk-neutral values and default probabilities.
result Formulas and ML estimators for public companies' default probabilities.
Python models predict stock sentiment for market-beating returns.
problem Predicting public sentiment for stock trading.
method Crowd-sourced labeled data, trained and evaluated various models.
result Best models predict market-beating returns from public sentiment.
The model is aimed to discriminate the 'good' and the 'bad' companies in Russian corporate sector based on their financial statements data based on Russian Accounting Standards. The data sample consists of 126 Russian public companies- issuers of Ruble bonds which represent about 36% of total number of corporate bonds …
Paper presents a faster method for computing cost of equity and performing comparable company analysis.
problem Tedium and subjectivity in traditional cost of equity and comparable company analysis methods.
method Uses spectral and agglomerative clustering to compute cost of equity and perform comparable company analysis.
result Reduces time required for comps by orders of magnitude and improves consistency and reliability.
Dataset analyzes tweets' impact on stock returns.
problem Understanding how public opinion affects stock market outcomes.
method Created a dataset of 862,231 labeled tweets, provided baselines and multi-view learning approach.
result Demonstrated the impact of tweets on stock returns over various time frames.
This paper develops a valuation model for private companies.
problem Lack of pricing and hedging models for private companies.
method Dynamic Gordon growth model, Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimators, Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm.
result Closed-form pricing and hedging formulas for private companies.
Taureau uses Twitter sentiment analysis to predict stock market movement.
problem Predicting stock market movement using public opinion on Twitter.
method Obtained historical tweets, filtered and labeled, generated word embeddings, assessed sentiment scores, correlated with stock price movement, designed and evaluated predictive model.
result Taureau can predict stock price movement from lagged sentiment scores.
Study finds companies react negatively to material cybersecurity incident disclosures.
problem Understanding market reactions to cybersecurity incidents.
method Examined daily stock price movements of companies disclosing material cybersecurity incidents.
result Companies tend to experience negative price reactions after disclosing material cybersecurity incidents.
The paper develops a model to predict IPO events in private equity investments.
problem Lack of publicly available quantitative information for predicting IPO events.
method Combines neural network and survival analysis for predicting IPO probability.
result The neuro-survival model accurately predicts IPO events across various sectors.
We introduce a probabilistic model of labor markets for university graduates, in particular, in Japan. To make a model of the market efficiently, we take into account several hypotheses. Namely, each company fixes the (business year independent) number of opening positions for newcomers. The ability of gathering newcom…
Companies and financial investors are paying increasing attention to social consciousness in developing their corporate strategies and making investment decisions to support a sustainable economy for the future. Public discussion on incidents and events -- controversies -- of companies can provide valuable insights on …
This paper proposes a use of an ordinal classifier to evaluate the financial solidity of non-life insurance companies as strong, moderate, weak, and insolvency. This study constructed an efficient classification model that can be used by regulators to evaluate the financial solidity and to determine the priority of fur…
New eco-systemic prudential policies aim to finance green companies, reducing systemic financial risk.
problem Insufficient financing for green companies despite available savings and monetary management.
method Reorient corporate accounting towards socio-environmental solvency, facilitating access with public guarantees.
result Green financing increases, reducing systemic financial risk and promoting less leveraged investments.
Visualizes board connections for socially responsible investing insights.
problem Understanding corporate governance and sustainability through board connections.
method Data Visualization tool to reveal connections between Directors and Executives.
result Strength of tool in investigating corporate governance and sustainability.
Study finds billing codes at IPO boost digital health companies' financial performance.
problem Identifying factors that drive long-term financial success in digital health companies.
method Analyzed 33 digital health IPOs from 2010-2021, comparing companies with and without billing codes.
result Companies with billing codes at IPO were significantly more likely to achieve positive CAGR and higher market capitalization.
System constructs public competitor graph from financial reports.
problem Time-consuming and expert-laden manual extraction of corporate relationships.
method Financial report processing to generate reliable knowledge graph of corporate relationships.
result More than 83% of S\&P 500 companies' competition relationships retrieved.
Predicts stock price changes based on clinical trial announcements.
problem Forecasting the impact of clinical trial results on pharma stock prices.
method BERT for sentiment analysis, Temporal Fusion Transformer for forecasting, graph convolution network for event relationships, gradient boosting for price change prediction.
result Identifies two crucial factors: drug portfolio size and network effect of related events.
Study predicts firm defaults using machine learning on Italian credit data.
problem Predicting firm defaults to inform bank lending policies.
method Used large granular credit data from Italian Central Credit Register, combined with public balance sheet data, and applied ensemble techniques and random forest models.
result Ensemble techniques and random forest provide the best results for predicting firm defaults.
Model predicts exit of private companies using voting of three classifiers.
problem Predicting the exit of privately held companies from limited data.
method Combines three classifiers (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM) on extracted data.
result Achieves 63% predictive accuracy for Private Equity investors.
For the first time ever, we analyze a unique public procurement database, which includes information about a number of bidders for a contract, a final price, an identification of a winner and an identification of a contracting authority for each of more than 40,000 public procurements in the Czech Republic between 2006…
Study introduces new financial ratios for better predicting company performance.
problem Lack of progress in predicting company performance and assessing financial risks.
method Developed new financial and macroeconomic ratios, supervised learning models, and Bayesian models.
result New proposed variables improve model accuracy and FNN performs best across multiple tasks.
This paper introduces a non-parametric framework to statistically examine how news events, such as company or macroeconomic announcements, contribute to the pre- and post-event jump dynamics of stock prices under the intraday seasonality of the news and jumps. We demonstrate our framework, which has several advantages …
On December 16, Zynga, the well-known social game developing company went public. This event is following other recent IPOs in the world of social networking companies, such as Groupon, Linkedin or Pandora to cite a few. With a valuation close to 7 billion USD at the time when it went public, Zynga has become the bigge…
CAI automates extraction and validation of corporate GHG emission metrics.
problem Manual extraction of corporate GHG emission metrics is labor-intensive and error-prone.
method CAI uses LLMs to automate extraction and validation of metrics from corporate disclosures.
result CAI improves data collection efficiency and accuracy by automating the process.
The complex networks approach has been gaining popularity in analysing investor behaviour and stock markets, but within this approach, initial public offerings (IPO) have barely been explored. We fill this gap in the literature by analysing investor clusters in the first two years after the IPO filing in the Helsinki S…
Study shows publicly available news impacts financial markets.
problem Impact of publicly available news on financial markets.
method Extracted news from Common Crawl, identified relevant companies, used sentiment analysis and information theory.
result Publicly available news has significant impact on financial markets.
Private equity deals predict public market returns with up to 70% accuracy.
problem Predicting public market behavior from private equity transactions.
method Logit model using detailed analysis of private equity diligence process.
result Model predicts public market returns with up to 70% accuracy in specific sectors.
Investment disputes increase stock volatility, especially for companies with negative outcomes.
problem Investment disputes affect stock market volatility and investor uncertainty.
method Analysis of abnormal share fluctuations and various explanatory variables.
result Investment disputes lead to increased stock volatility, particularly for companies with negative outcomes.
Model predicts ESG ratings from news articles using multivariate timeseries analysis.
problem Lack of accurate and automated methods for ESG ratings prediction.
method Multivariate timeseries analysis combined with deep learning.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting ESG ratings.
The study predicts bankruptcy in Indian companies using financial ratios.
problem Predicting early signs of corporate bankruptcy in Indian companies.
method Logistic regression considering profitability, leverage, and efficiency ratios for one and two years before bankruptcy.
result The model accurately predicts bankruptcy with 81.4% and 85.1% accuracy one and two years before filing, respectively.
After the shocking series of bankruptcies started in 2008, the public does not trust anymore the classical methods of assessing business risks. The global economic severe downturn caused demand for both developed and emerging economies' exports to drop and the crisis became truly global. However, this current crisis of…
AMA-LSTM improves stock volatility prediction using adversarial training.
problem Predicting stock volatility from financial audio data is challenging due to stochasticity and bias.
method Adversarial training to generate perturbations that simulate stochasticity and bias.
result AMA-LSTM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting stock volatility.
Study compares ruin probabilities under independence vs. dependence assumptions.
problem Underestimation of ruin probability when claims are dependent.
method Copulas for claim dependence analysis, sensitivity analysis.
result Dependent claims lead to underestimation of ruin probability.
Model earnings call transcripts for better stock price prediction.
problem Predicting future stock price movements using earnings call transcripts.
method Deep learning framework with an attention mechanism to encode text data into vectors for predicting stock price movements.
result The proposed model outperforms traditional machine learning methods in stock price prediction.
Study of public and private VC relationships in France using qualitative methods.
problem Understanding interactions between public and private venture capitalists in France.
method Qualitative approach with semi-structured interviews and thematic content analysis.
result Formal or informal relationships between public and private VCs are a 'economico-cognitive' approach to networking and innovation.
Structuring a viable pension plan is a problem that arises in the study of financial contracts pricing and bears special importance these days. Deterministic pension models often rely on projections that are based on several assumptions concerning the "average" long-time behavior of the stock market. Our aim here is to…
Most approaches in algorithmic fairness constrain machine learning methods so the resulting predictions satisfy one of several intuitive notions of fairness. While this may help private companies comply with non-discrimination laws or avoid negative publicity, we believe it is often too little, too late. By the time th…
New model uses financial filings to predict bankruptcy, even without MDA sections.
problem Lack of complete MDA data limits traditional bankruptcy prediction models.
method Conditional Multimodal Discriminative (CMMD) model learns from accounting, market, and textual data.
result Empirical results show superior classification performance compared to traditional models.
On December 16th, 2011, Zynga, the well-known social game developing company went public. This event followed other recent IPOs in the world of social networking companies, such as Groupon or Linkedin among others. With a valuation close to 7 billion USD at the time when it went public, Zynga became one of the biggest …
Study tests financial market efficiency using random number generator tests.
problem Check for informational efficiencies in financial markets.
method Analysed binary daily returns as random number generators, split analysis by annual and company levels, investigated longer-term efficiency over Nasdaq-listed companies.
result Information efficiency varies across years and reflects large-scale market impacts.
Study tests UK FTSE-listed companies' financial data for Benford's Law conformity.
problem Ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection and reducing tax avoidance risks.
method Utilised pre-tax income and total assets data from 567 FTSE companies, tested for Benford's Laws conformity using χ2 and MAD tests. result MAD test rejects Benford's Laws conformity, suggesting potential issues with reported financial data.
We report the first, to the best of our knowledge, hand-in-hand collaboration between human rights activists and machine learners, leveraging crowd-sourcing to study online abuse against women on Twitter. On a technical front, we carefully curate an unbiased yet low-variance dataset of labeled tweets, analyze it to acc…
Intel's system identifies and categorizes businesses for sales opportunities.
problem Identifying relevant new markets and customers for large enterprises.
method Mining public business web pages, enriching with external data, and using deep learning.
result Significantly boosts sales personnel's ability to discover new customers and partnerships.
Stock market prediction is one of the most attractive research topic since the successful prediction on the market's future movement leads to significant profit. Traditional short term stock market predictions are usually based on the analysis of historical market data, such as stock prices, moving averages or daily re…
BioFinBERT analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
problem Analyzing sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
method Finetuning BioBERT on financial datasets to create BioFinBERT for sentiment analysis.
result BioFinBERT accurately analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
The paper discusses decades of stock market manipulation and its benefits.
problem Manipulating public equity markets over 30 years.
method Quantitative analysis of market impact and price movement.
result Price manipulation is a valuable and profitable tool.
System segments Form 10-K documents into Item sections for financial analysis.
problem Segmenting Form 10-K documents into Item sections for efficient financial analysis.
method Developed an automatic Form 10-K Itemization system using NLP techniques.
result System achieves a retrieval rate of 93% for segmenting Item sections.
New dataset for industrial machine sounds to aid maintenance.
problem Lack of public datasets for industrial machine sounds.
method Recorded normal and anomalous sounds of industrial machines.
result Assists in automated facility maintenance development.