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Cryptocurrencies and Interest Rates: Inferring Yield Curves in a Bondless Market

In traditional financial markets, yield curves are widely available for countries (and, by extension, currencies), financial institutions, and large corporates. These curves are used to calibrate stochastic interest rate models, discount future cash flows, and price financial products. Yield curves,

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 6 ·  September 4, 2025

Dispensing with optimal control: a new approach for the pricing and management of share buyback contracts

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the pricing and management of share buyback contracts, overcoming the limitations of traditional optimal control methods, which frequently encounter difficulties with high-dimensional state spaces and the intricacies of selecting appropriate risk penalty

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 5.5 ·  April 21, 2024

Automated Market Makers: Mean-Variance Analysis of LPs Payoffs and Design of Pricing Functions

With the emergence of decentralized finance, new trading mechanisms called Automated Market Makers have appeared. The most popular Automated Market Makers are Constant Function Market Makers. They have been studied both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the concept of impermanent loss ha

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 5.5 ·  December 1, 2022

Optimal Quoting under Adverse Selection and Price Reading

Over the past decade, many dealers have implemented algorithmic models to automatically respond to RFQs and manage flows originating from their electronic platforms. In parallel, building on the foundational work of Ho and Stoll, and later Avellaneda and Stoikov, the academic literature on market ma

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 3 ·  August 27, 2025

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