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Learning Market Making with Closing Auctions

In this work, we investigate the market-making problem on a trading session in which a continuous phase on a limit order book is followed by a closing auction. Whereas standard optimal market-making models typically rely on terminal inventory penalties to manage end-of-day risk, ignoring the signifi

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8 ·  January 24, 2026

Regulation or Competition:Major-Minor Optimal Liquidation across Dark and Lit Pools

We study the optimal liquidation problem in both lit and dark pools for investors facing execution uncertainty in a continuous-time setting with market impact. First, we design an optimal make–take fee policy for a large investor liquidating her position across both pools, interacting with small in

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3.5 ·  September 4, 2025

Delegated portfolio management with random default

We are considering the problem of optimal portfolio delegation between an investor and a portfolio manager under a random default time. We focus on a novel variation of the Principal-Agent problem adapted to this framework. We address the challenge of an uncertain investment horizon caused by an exo

Lab Rats Math 9 Rigor 2.5 ·  October 17, 2024

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