7 papers in the archive (2024–2026), average empirical rigor 3.5/10, average math complexity 8.1/10. Quadrant mix: Holy Grail ×1, Lab Rats ×6.
Works mostly in Fixed Income & Interest Rates, Options & Derivatives Pricing, Insurance & Actuarial Risk, Commodities & Energy Markets.
Frequent co-authors: Claudio Fontana (1), Stefan Tappe (1), Michael Schmutz (1), Thorsten Schmidt (1), Kevin Fergusson (1).
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Ordered by a blend of empirical rigor (60%) and math complexity (40%).
The hypothesis that there do not exist free lunches with vanishing risk (FLVRs) in the real market underpins the popular risk-neutral pricing and hedging methodology in quantitative finance. The paper documents the fact that this hypothesis can be safely rejected. It performs extremely accurately th
The paper summarizes key results of the benchmark approach with a focus on the concept of benchmark-neutral pricing. It applies these results to the pricing of an extreme-maturity European put option on a well-diversified stock index. The growth optimal portfolio of the stocks is approximated by a w
The paper introduces benchmark-neutral pricing and hedging for long-term contingent claims. It employs the growth optimal portfolio of the stocks as numeraire and the new benchmark-neutral pricing measure for pricing. For a realistic parsimonious model, this pricing measure turns out to be an equiva
The paper treats the financial market as a communication system, using four information-theoretic assumptions to derive an idealized model with only one parameter. State variables are scalar stationary diffusions. The model minimizes the surprisal of the market and the Kullback-Leibler divergence be
The paper derives the dynamics of a financial market from basic mathematical principles. It models the market dynamics using independent stationary scalar diffusions, assumes the existence of its growth optimal portfolio (GOP), interprets the market as a communication system, and minimizes, in an in
In this paper we study the pricing and hedging of nonreplicable contingent claims, such as long-term insurance contracts like variable annuities. Our approach is based on the benchmark-neutral pricing framework of Platen (2024), which differs from the classical benchmark approach by using the stock
We develop a unified framework for modeling multiple term structures arising in financial, insurance, and energy markets, adopting an extended Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) approach under the real-world probability. We study market viability and characterize the set of local martingale deflators. We con