Papers, ranked by score

Ordered by a blend of empirical rigor (60%) and math complexity (40%).

A unified theory of order flow, market impact, and volatility

We propose a microstructural model for the order flow in financial markets that distinguishes between {\it core orders} and {\it reaction flow}, both modeled as Hawkes processes. This model has a natural scaling limit that reconciles a number of salient empirical properties: persistent signed order

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 8 ·  January 30, 2026

Bridging the Reality Gap in Limit Order Book Simulation

We introduce a practical, interactive simulator of the limit order book for large-tick assets, designed to produce realistic execution, costs, and P&L. The book state is projected onto a tractable representation based on spread and volume imbalance, enabling robust estimation from market data. Event

Holy Grail Math 5.5 Rigor 8 ·  March 25, 2026

Risk of Transfer Learning and its Applications in Finance

Transfer learning is an emerging and popular paradigm for utilizing existing knowledge from previous learning tasks to improve the performance of new ones. In this paper, we propose a novel concept of transfer risk and and analyze its properties to evaluate transferability of transfer learning. We a

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7 ·  November 6, 2023

Multi-asset market making under the quadratic rough Heston

Given the promising results on joint modeling of SPX/VIX smiles of the recently introduced quadratic rough Heston model, we consider a multi-asset market making problem on SPX and its derivatives, e.g. VIX futures, SPX and VIX options. The market maker tries to maximize its profit from spread captur

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 4.5 ·  December 20, 2022

Towards systematic intraday news screening: a liquidity-focused approach

News can convey bearish or bullish views on financial assets. Institutional investors need to evaluate automatically the implied news sentiment based on textual data. Given the huge amount of news articles published each day, most of which are neutral, we present a systematic news screening method t

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  April 11, 2023

On Inhomogeneous Affine Volterra Processes: Stationarity and Applications to the Volterra Heston Model

True Volterra equations are inherently non stationary and therefore do not admit $\textit{genuine stationary regimes}$ over finite horizons. This motivates the study of the finite-time behavior of the solutions to scaled inhomogeneous affine Stochastic Volterra equations through the lens of a weaker

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  December 10, 2025

Competition and Incentives in a Shared Order Book

Recent regulation on intraday electricity markets has led to the development of shared order books with the intention to foster competition and increase market liquidity. In this paper, we address the question of the efficiency of such regulations by analysing the situation of two exchanges sharing

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2 ·  September 12, 2025

Mean-field equilibrium of heterogeneous agents under market impact

Although market participants generally have access to a common information set, they make decisions based on forecasts formed over heterogeneous horizons. Because market impact depends on aggregate positions rather than trader identities, these decisions feed back into prices through their collectiv

Lab Rats Math 9 Rigor 1 ·  September 2, 2026

Browse

All authors · Research topics · Papers with code · Download the scored dataset

📬 The Quant Space Weekly

One email a week: the most interesting quant finance papers, scored and summarized. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.