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

Interbank network reconstruction enforcing density and reciprocity

Networks of financial exposures are the key propagators of risk and distress among banks, but their empirical structure is not publicly available because of confidentiality. This limitation has triggered the development of methods of network reconstruction from partial, aggregate information. Unfort

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8 ·  February 17, 2024

CAESar: Conditional Autoregressive Expected Shortfall

In financial risk management, Value at Risk (VaR) is widely used to estimate potential portfolio losses. VaR’s limitation is its inability to account for the magnitude of losses beyond a certain threshold. Expected Shortfall (ES) addresses this by providing the conditional expectation of such exceed

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  July 9, 2024

Hedging market risk and uncertainty via a robust portfolio approach

Shorting for hedging exposes to risk when the market dynamics is uncertain. Managing uncertainty and risk exposure is key in portfolio management practice. This paper develops a robust framework for dynamic minimum-variance hedging that explicitly accounts for forecast uncertainty in volatility esti

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8 ·  April 2, 2026

A high-frequency approach to Realized Risk Measures

We propose a new approach, termed Realized Risk Measures (RRM), to estimate Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) using high-frequency financial data. It extends the Realized Quantile (RQ) approach proposed by Dimitriadis and Halbleib by lifting the assumption of return self-similarity, wh

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8 ·  October 18, 2025

Spectral signatures of structural change in financial networks

The level of systemic risk in economic and financial systems is strongly determined by the structure of the underlying networks of interdependent entities that can propagate shocks and stresses. Since changes in network structure imply changes in risk levels, it is important to identify structural t

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 7 ·  September 5, 2024

A machine learning approach to support decision in insider trading detection

Identifying market abuse activity from data on investors’ trading activity is very challenging both for the data volume and for the low signal to noise ratio. Here we propose two complementary unsupervised machine learning methods to support market surveillance aimed at identifying potential insider

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 6.5 ·  December 6, 2022

Tackling estimation risk in Kelly investing using options

The Kelly criterion provides a general framework for optimizing the growth rate of an investment portfolio over time by maximizing the expected logarithmic utility of wealth. However, the optimality condition of the Kelly criterion is highly sensitive to accurate estimates of the probabilities and i

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  August 26, 2025

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