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.
Modeling financial market dynamics with noise and fundamentalist agents.
problem Understanding opinion formation and market behavior in financial markets.
method Agent-based model with Erdös-Rényi random graph structure, incorporating anxiety parameter.
result Model accurately reproduces key market features like fat-tailed returns and volatility clustering.
Study shows HFT benefits large traders under certain conditions.
problem Influence of high-frequency traders (HFTs) on large traders.
method Analyzes the impact of HFT front-running on large traders under different conditions.
result HFT benefits large traders when there is high-speed noise trading and vague HFT predictions.
Investigates market dynamics with informed traders and high-frequency traders.
problem Trading large orders in a market with multiple high-frequency traders.
method Analyzes a three-period Kyle's model with a normal-speed informed trader and multiple anticipatory high-frequency traders under different inventory pressures.
result Surprising results: improving HFTs' speed or prediction can harm them but benefit the informed trader.
The paper extends option pricing theory for markets with informed traders.
problem Discontinuity in option pricing for markets with informed traders.
method New models for option pricing in complete markets considering informed traders' information on stock price direction and return mean.
result The discontinuity puzzle in option pricing is resolved using continuous diffusion price processes.
An informed broker optimizes trading strategies in a market influenced by many traders.
problem Optimizing trading strategies for an informed broker in a market with many traders.
method Developed a mean-field game approach to derive equilibrium strategies for both the broker and traders.
result The broker's optimal strategy involves a Stackelberg equilibrium, leading and traders following.
The study uses Hidden Markov Models to analyze student enrollment patterns and academic performance.
problem Limited understanding of how enrollment patterns affect academic performance.
method Applied Hidden Markov Models to categorize enrollment strategies and compare academic outcomes.
result Mixed enrollment strategies lead to better academic performance, especially during part-time semesters.
Study Nash equilibrium between broker and trader in a lit exchange with price impact.
problem Optimizing trading strategies between informed and uninformed traders with broker's inventory penalties.
method Characterized Nash equilibrium through FBSDEs, solved explicitly.
result Explicit solution to trading strategies of broker and informed trader.
PRZI traders adapt their quote-prices based on a strategy parameter s, affecting market dynamics.
problem Understanding the dynamics of continuous double auction markets with adaptive traders.
method Introduced a new zero-intelligence trader PRZI that uses a parameterised probability distribution to generate quote-prices. Used a stochastic hill-climber algorithm to adapt strategies based on market conditions.
result The co-evolutionary dynamics of PRZI traders can lead to rich and complex market behaviors, including periods of stability and change.
Study shows unique linear equilibrium in market with constrained trader.
problem Unique equilibrium in financial market with constrained trader.
method Linear equilibrium model with competitive market makers and noise traders.
result Equilibrium uniquely determined by two state variables.
Predicts student performance in interactive online question pools using GNNs.
problem Predicting student performance in interactive online question pools with evolving knowledge.
method Proposes R^2GCN, a GNN model for heterogeneous networks to predict student performance.
result Achieves higher accuracy in student performance prediction than traditional methods.
Proposes RaT to mitigate bias in student-teacher estimation.
problem Systematic bias in teacher's predictions propagates to student model.
method Uses teacher to estimate residuals in student's predictions.
result RaT method reduces teacher bias effect and achieves optimal rate.
Modeling market dynamics with informed and uninformed traders and fads.
problem Optimizing market making in a market with fads, informed, and uninformed traders.
method Characterizing the optimal liquidity provision problem in a market with fads, informed, and uninformed traders, considering both complete and partial information.
result The price of liquidity is a function of the proportion of informed traders, and strategies ignoring fads underperform.
Solves a game between brokers and informed traders using stochastic differential equations.
problem Optimizing wealth in a game between brokers and informed traders with private signals.
method Closed-form solutions to a mean-field game using forward-backward SDEs.
result Optimal trading strategies for both brokers and informed traders are found.
High-frequency traders can act as either small informed traders or round-trippers, affecting price discovery and liquidity.
problem Effects of high-frequency trading on price discovery and liquidity.
method Extended Kyle's model with interactions between large informed traders and high-frequency traders.
result High-frequency traders can act as Small-IT or Round-Tripper, impacting price discovery and liquidity.
Traders underestimated risk-free rates, leading to poor investments.
problem Incorrect setting of risk-free rates by traders.
method Analysis of investment decisions and financial models.
result Underestimating risk-free rates led to flawed investment decisions.
Model shows how multiple markets can coexist or fragment based on trader behavior.
problem Understanding market competition and coexistence among multiple trading venues.
method Stylized model of traders making repeated decisions at three markets, analyzed numerically and analytically.
result Parameters like memory length and choice intensity determine whether markets coexist or fragment.
Enhances student diversity in collaborative learning.
problem Student homogenization in large groups.
method Random routing, diverse feature sets, and random subgroup imitation.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
We report successful results from using deep learning neural networks (DLNNs) to learn, purely by observation, the behavior of profitable traders in an electronic market closely modelled on the limit-order-book (LOB) market mechanisms that are commonly found in the real-world global financial markets for equities (stoc…
Student performance modelling (SPM) is a critical step to assessing and improving students performances in their learning discourse. However, most existing SPM are based on statistical approaches, which on one hand are based on probability, depicting that results are based on estimation; and on the other hand, actual i…
Brokers and an informed trader compete for liquidity, affecting trading costs and inventory risk.
problem How brokers and an informed trader manage liquidity and trading costs.
method Sequential Stackelberg game, solving for trading strategies, numerical solutions.
result Equilibrium strategies and liquidity prices determined, not Pareto efficient.
Study a market with uncertain informed traders, finding price impact depends on both asset value and informed trader count distribution.
problem Uncertain participation of informed traders in a market with limit orders.
method Characterized equilibrium by a fixed point integral equation, analyzed large order asymptotics, solved numerically.
result Equilibrium price impact depends on both asset value and distribution of informed traders, not just expected number of informed traders.
Strategic brokers exploit private information in broker-mediated markets, affecting informed traders' performance.
problem Strategic interactions and information leakage in broker-mediated markets.
method Study of strategic trading behavior and information leakage in a broker-mediated market.
result Brokers hold a strategic advantage over informed traders due to information leakage in trading flows.
Maximizing trading volume in online learning framework between traders.
problem Maximizing the total number of trades between traders with unknown valuations.
method Developed algorithms for brokers to maximize trading volume under different feedback scenarios.
result Achieved logarithmic and poly-logarithmic regret rates for different feedback models.
This paper improves robot traders' market impact sensitivity.
problem Market impact in automated trading systems.
method Critiqued existing methods, introduced MLOFI, and demonstrated new algorithms.
result New imbalance-sensitive trader-agents exhibit market impact effects.
In a very simple stock market, made by only two \emph{initially equivalent} traders, we discuss how the information can affect the performance of the traders. More in detail, we first consider how the portfolios of the traders evolve in time when the market is \emph{closed}. After that, we discuss two models in which a…
This study models AI traders' impact on financial markets using a multi-agent framework.
problem Lack of a comprehensive model to assess AI traders' effects on market price formation and volatility.
method Developed a multi-agent market model with microfoundations of the GARCH model.
result Validated the model through simulations and analyzed AI traders' impact.
Each year, roughly 30% of first-year students at US baccalaureate institutions do not return for their second year and over $9 billion is spent educating these students. Yet, little quantitative research has analyzed the causes and possible remedies for student attrition. Here, we describe initial efforts to model stud…
The study reveals traders' risk aversion and a new risk premium from market volumes.
problem Understanding traders' rationality and risk aversion from market volumes.
method Optimal Merton dynamics model to estimate average risk aversion and price of risk.
result Validation of the proposed trading strategy model on real data.
Deep neural networks bring in impressive accuracy in various applications, but the success often relies on the heavy network architecture. Taking well-trained heavy networks as teachers, classical teacher-student learning paradigm aims to learn a student network that is lightweight yet accurate. In this way, a portable…
Trading strategy advantage based on information asymmetry.
problem Trading advantage due to information disparity.
method Modeling market information, analyzing risk-neutral distribution, proving value difference.
result First trader's position is strictly more valuable than the second.
Student-teacher learning improves generalization with noisy inputs.
problem Transfer knowledge from clean inputs to noisy inputs.
method Analyzes student-teacher learning using deep linear networks and experiments with nonlinear networks.
result Three factors are vital for success: zero training loss, teacher knowledge, and feature decomposition.
A combination of a priority queueing model and mean field theory shows the emergence of traders' swarm behavior, even when each has a subjective prediction of the market driven by a limit order book. Using a nonlinear Markov model, we analyze the dynamics of traders who select a favorable order price taking into accoun…
Study reveals patterns in trader clusters over time, improving investment predictions.
problem Managing diverse trader risk in financial services.
method Clustered trader data analyzed using Ewens' Sampling Distribution and Aggregating Algorithm (AA). Statistically Validated Networks (SVN) applied for improved results.
result Temporal distributions of trader clusters follow Ewens' Sampling Distribution, and AA can be improved with SVN.
Bitcoin option prices reflect both market maker supply and trader demand, especially from those with insider information.
problem Understanding how market prices of bitcoin options are influenced by both market makers and informed traders.
method Analysis of Deribit options tick-level data to identify supply and demand effects.
result At-the-money option prices are driven by volatility traders, while out-of-the-money options are influenced by both volatility traders and those with insider information.
A new teacher-class network method compresses DNNs by distributing knowledge to multiple student networks.
problem Overwhelming size of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).
method Single teacher with multiple student networks, transferring knowledge to each student.
result The combined knowledge of the class of students achieves better performance and reduces parameters.
We consider a single security market based on a limit order book and two investors, with different speeds of trade execution. If the fast investor can front-run the slower investor, we show that this allows the fast trader to obtain risk free profits, but that these profits cannot be scaled. We derive the fast trader's…
We present Noisy Student Training, a semi-supervised learning approach that works well even when labeled data is abundant. Noisy Student Training achieves 88.4% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet, which is 2.0% better than the state-of-the-art model that requires 3.5B weakly labeled Instagram images. On robustness test sets, i…
Contributions: Prior studies on education have mostly followed the model of the cross sectional study, namely, examining the pretest and the posttest scores. This paper shows that students' knowledge throughout the intervention can be estimated by time series analysis using a hidden Markov model. Background: Analyzing …
We consider an ideal closed stock market, in which 100 traders have economic activities. The assets of the traders change through buying and selling stocks. We simulate the assets under conservation of both total currency and total number of stocks. If the traders are identical, then the assets are distributed as a sta…
Traders buy and sell financial instruments in hopes of making profit, and brokers are responsible for the transaction. There are several hypotheses and conspiracy theories arguing that in some situations, brokers want their traders to lose money. For instance, a broker may want to protect the positions of a privileged …
In this paper we do the first large scale analysis of writing style development among Danish high school students. More than 10K students with more than 100K essays are analyzed. Writing style itself is often studied in the natural language processing community, but usually with the goal of verifying authorship, assess…
An important, yet largely unstudied, problem in student data analysis is to detect misconceptions from students' responses to open-response questions. Misconception detection enables instructors to deliver more targeted feedback on the misconceptions exhibited by many students in their class, thus improving the quality…
Bayesian model identifies skill difficulties and student subgroups in engineering education.
problem Identifying and supporting diverse student needs in entry-level university engineering modules.
method Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of student response data.
result Clear patterns of skill mastery and distinct student subgroups identified.
Honest traders can outperform insiders in a Black-Scholes market with positive probability.
problem Comparing the performance of honest and insider traders in a financial market.
method Using anticipating stochastic calculus and forward integral analysis of the Doléans-Dade exponential process.
result The honest trader can achieve higher logarithmic utility and wealth than the insider with positive probability.
Neuro-symbolic traders suppress market prices, highlighting risks to stability.
problem Understanding and quantifying the influence of AI-generated financial models on markets.
method Developed virtual neuro-symbolic traders using deep generative models and tested them in a virtual market.
result Neuro-symbolic traders suppress market prices compared to historical data, indicating potential market instability.
We consider thin incomplete financial markets, where traders with heterogeneous preferences and risk exposures have motive to behave strategically regarding the demand schedules they submit, thereby impacting prices and allocations. We argue that traders relatively more exposed to market risk tend to submit more elasti…
Modeling student behaviors and multiple predictions for early intervention.
problem Predicting student outcomes and interactions among multiple tasks.
method Proposes a variant of LSTM and soft-attention mechanism for heterogeneous behaviors, and co-attention mechanism for task interactions.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in predicting student outcomes and interactions.