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Neural Stochastic Agent-Based Limit Order Book Simulation: A Hybrid Methodology

Modern financial exchanges use an electronic limit order book (LOB) to store bid and ask orders for a specific financial asset. As the most fine-grained information depicting the demand and supply of an asset, LOB data is essential in understanding market dynamics. Therefore, realistic LOB simulatio

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  February 28, 2023

Systemic Risk in DeFi: A Network-Based Fragility Analysis of TVL Dynamics

Systemic risk refers to the overall vulnerability arising from the high degree of interconnectedness and interdependence within the financial system. In the rapidly developing decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, numerous studies have analyzed systemic risk through specific channels such as liqui

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  January 13, 2026

BondBERT: What we learn when assigning sentiment in the bond market

Bond markets respond differently to macroeconomic news compared to equity markets, yet most sentiment models are trained primarily on general financial or equity news data. However, bond prices often move in the opposite direction to economic optimism, making general or equity-based sentiment tools

Street Traders Math 5 Rigor 7.5 ·  October 21, 2025

Automated Risk Management Mechanisms in DeFi Lending Protocols: A Crosschain Comparative Analysis of Aave and Compound

Blockchain-based decentralised lending is a rapidly growing and evolving alternative to traditional lending, but it poses new risks. To mitigate these risks, lending protocols have integrated automated risk management tools into their smart contracts. However, the effectiveness of the latest risk ma

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 7.5 ·  June 15, 2025

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Asset Allocation Using DDPG with TiDE

The optimal asset allocation between risky and risk-free assets is a persistent challenge due to the inherent volatility in financial markets. Conventional methods rely on strict distributional assumptions or non-additive reward ratios, which limit their robustness and applicability to investment go

Lab Rats Math 7.5 Rigor 3 ·  August 12, 2025

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