This paper investigates the relationship between private and public investment in R&D, while taking into account the effect of several instruments policies such as subsidies and taxes. We design a new look of knowledge spillovers and R&D cooperation to explain the contribution of public and private R&D on growth. We pr…
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.
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.
Study uses AI to predict changes in international public finances based on US markets.
problem Understanding correlations between US and international public finances.
method Artificial intelligence and neural networks to model and predict changes.
result Neural network model achieved MSE of 2.79, indicating significant correlation and impact of US market volatility on international markets.
The Economist recently reported that infrastructure spending is the largest it is ever been as a share of world GDP. With $22 trillion in projected investments over the next ten years in emerging economies alone, the magazine calls it the "biggest investment boom in history." The efficiency of infrastructure planning a…
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.
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.
The paper analyzes competition among fund managers using excess logarithmic returns and constructs games to find optimal allocations.
problem Optimal allocation strategies among fund managers considering excess logarithmic returns.
method Constructs both n-player and mean field games to address the competition problem. result The MFE of the MFG represents the limit of n-player game's equilibrium as n approaches infinity. We propose an extended public goods interaction model to study the evolution of cooperation in heterogeneous population. The investors are arranged on the well known scale-free type network, the Barabási-Albert model. Each investor is supposed to preferentially distribute capital to pools in its portfolio based on the …
We study a practical optimization problems for venture capital investments and/or Research and Development (R&D) investments. The first problem is that, given the amount of the initial investment and the reward function at the initial public offering (IPO) market, the venture capitalist wants to maximize overall discou…
Mathematical model for focused investing reduces diversification risks.
problem Reduces diversification risks in focused investing portfolios.
method Generalized Kelly Criterion with constraints for optimal capital allocation.
result Software shows excessive diversification in real portfolios.
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.
To convey neural network architectures in publications, appropriate visualizations are of great importance. While most current deep learning papers contain such visualizations, these are usually handcrafted just before publication, which results in a lack of a common visual grammar, significant time investment, errors,…
TDA improves cryptocurrency portfolio management.
problem Traditional methods fail to manage cryptocurrencies effectively.
method Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for identifying investment opportunities.
result TDA-based portfolio management outperforms traditional methods.
Proposes a mixed pension system combining PAYG and funded contributions to address sustainability.
problem Sustainability of public pension systems due to declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy.
method Combines a classical PAYG scheme with a funded investment scheme to ensure financial sustainability.
result Individuals contribute to a funded part, making them active participants in addressing demographic risks.
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.
Paper introduces Arte-Blue Chip Index for diversifying portfolios with art investments.
problem Evaluating blue-chip art as a viable asset class for diversification.
method Developed Arte-Blue Chip Index tracking top-performing artists over 24 years.
result 20% allocation of blue-chip art in a diversified portfolio increases risk-adjusted returns by 20%.
Study proposes a multi-agent system using LLMs for REIT trading, outperforming benchmarks.
problem Low-volatility Chinese REIT market, low risk-adjusted returns.
method Multi-agent framework with four types of agents, prediction model pathways, fine-tuning.
result Multi-agent strategies outperform buy-and-hold in terms of return, Sharpe ratio, and drawdown.
Migration crisis, climate change or tax havens: Global challenges need global solutions. But agreeing on a joint approach is difficult without a common ground for discussion. Public spheres are highly segmented because news are mainly produced and received on a national level. Gain- ing a global view on international d…
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.
Study improves cryptocurrency volatility forecasting using multiple data sources.
problem Improving accuracy of predicting cryptocurrency volatility.
method Developed CoMForE, a multimodal AdaBoost-LSTM ensemble model.
result Significantly improved cryptocurrency volatility forecasting (19.29% improvement).
In this theoretical paper, I propose creation of a venture bank, able to multiply the capital of a venture capital firm by at least 47 times, without requiring access to the Federal Reserve or other central bank apart from settlement. This concept rests on obtaining default swap instruments on loans in order to create …
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,…
MDGNN predicts stock prices by capturing multifaceted relations over time.
problem Challenges in predicting stock prices due to dynamic and intricate relations.
method MDGNN uses a discrete dynamic graph and Transformer structure to capture multifaceted relations and temporal evolution.
result MDGNN achieves the best performance in public datasets compared to SOTA methods.
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.
Paper optimizes trading profits by predicting price direction using ensemble models.
problem Predicting short-term price movements in financial markets.
method Developed a two-layer ensemble architecture optimized through grid search.
result Improvement of 20% over benchmark strategies.
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.
Unlike other industries in which intellectual property is patentable, the financial industry relies on trade secrecy to protect its business processes and methods, which can obscure critical financial risk exposures from regulators and the public. We develop methods for sharing and aggregating such risk exposures that …
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.
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.
Examines climate financing for renewable energy projects using structured funds.
problem Valuation of structured climate financing on diverse renewable energy asset pools.
method Bottom-up Gaussian copula framework with LH++ model for diversification analysis.
result Shows how the mix of indirect and direct RE investments affects the sensitivity of the senior tranche.
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.
Study shows Twitter sentiments predict stock price fluctuations.
problem Predicting stock prices using public opinions.
method Time series analysis and natural language processing with LSTM model.
result Positive, negative, and subjective sentiments correlate with stock price changes.
This paper studies a composite problem involving the decision making of the optimal entry time and dynamic consumption afterwards. In stage-1, the investor has access to full market information subjecting to some information costs and needs to choose an optimal stopping time to initiate stage-2; in stage-2, the investo…
Analyzed US firm data 1970-2019, identifying scale effects and distributional forms.
problem Understanding differences between small and large firms over time.
method Examined all public US firms, used stylized facts and DLN distribution analysis.
result Small firms are systematically different from large firms, with scale-dependent heteroskedasticity.
Study examines how governance, corruption, and R&D affect economic development.
problem The impact of corruption and governance on economic development.
method General equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a government, including corruption as a fraction of tax revenues.
result Redistribution and innovation-led strategies can mitigate the negative effects of corruption on economic development.
Predicting startup success using Crunchbase data and deep learning.
problem Predicting startup success in a volatile entrepreneurial ecosystem.
method Novel deep learning model integrating funding metrics, founder features, and industry category.
result Achieved 14 times capital growth and identified high-potential startups.
PRUDEX-Compass evaluates FinRL methods on 6 axes for financial market investments.
problem Insufficient evaluation of FinRL methods in financial markets.
method Introduces PRUDEX-Compass with 6 axes and 17 measures for evaluation.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of PRUDEX-Compass on 4 real-world datasets.
In recent years, the economic policy of privatization, which is defined as the transfer of property or responsibility from public sector to private sector, is one of the global phenomenon that increases use of markets to allocate resources. One important motivation for privatization is to help develop factor and produc…
In recent publications, the authors have considered inverse statistics of the Dow Jones Industrial Averaged (DJIA) [1-3]. Specifically, we argued that the natural candidate for such statistics is the investment horizons distribution. This is the distribution of waiting times needed to achieve a predefined level of retu…
This article continues our analysis of the gold price dynamics that was published in December 2010 (abs/1012.4118) and forecasted the possibility of the "burst of the gold bubble" in April - June 2011. Our recent analysis suggests the possibility of one more substantial fluctuation before the final collapse in July 201…
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.
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.
Chatbot uses BERT to handle financial investment questions, improving accuracy and decision-making.
problem Improving accuracy and decision-making in financial investment customer service.
method Deep Bidirectional Transformer (BERT) model, uncertainty measure comparison, mixed-integer programming, automatic spelling correction.
result Chatbot can recognize 381 intents and decide when to escalate questions.
Useful alpha returns vanished in modern stock markets.
problem The inefficiency of modern stock markets in generating useful alpha.
method Analysis of 200 published long-short anomaly equity portfolios over different time periods and stock selection criteria.
result Even modest allowances for luck or transaction costs eliminated published academic anomalies.
This paper analyzes air pollution trends in Rwanda using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
problem Lack of reliable air pollution data in Rwanda due to high costs of equipment.
method Analysis of existing data and development of forecasting models using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
result Proposes forecasting models for air pollution data collected by low-cost sensors.
A key challenge for Bitcoin cryptocurrency holders, such as startups using ICOs to raise funding, is managing their FX risk. Specifically, a misinformed decision to convert Bitcoin to fiat currency could, by itself, cost USD millions. In contrast to financial exchanges, Blockchain based crypto-currencies expose the ent…
The paper explores learning with a mix of private and public data while maintaining privacy.
problem Learning with a mix of private and public data while ensuring differential privacy.
method Designing a learning algorithm that satisfies differential privacy only with respect to private examples.
result A hypothesis class of VC-dimension d can be agnostically learned up to an excess error of α using only (roughly) d/α public examples and d/α^2 private labeled examples.