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Uncertainty-Aware Strategies: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Robust Financial Optimization through Subsampling

This paper addresses the challenge of model uncertainty in quantitative finance, where decisions in portfolio allocation, derivative pricing, and risk management rely on estimating stochastic models from limited data. In practice, the unavailability of the true probability measure forces reliance on

Holy Grail Math 8.5 Rigor 7.2 ·  June 8, 2025

Nonlinear filtering with stochastic discontinuities

Filtering problems with jumps in both the signal and the observation have been extensively studied, typically under the assumption that jump times are totally inaccessible. In many applications, however, jump times are known in advance (i.e., predictable), such as scheduled clinical visits, dividend

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 4 ·  May 12, 2026

Insurance products with guarantees in an affine setting

To make medium- and long-term insurance products attractive, it is essential to enable participation in stock market returns. However, to eliminate downside risk, guarantees must be included, which naturally leads to the challenge of valuing such contracts within a unified insurance-finance framewor

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  October 8, 2025

Robust asymptotic insurance-finance arbitrage

In most cases, insurance contracts are linked to the financial markets, such as through interest rates or equity-linked insurance products. To motivate an evaluation rule in these hybrid markets, Artzner et al. (2022) introduced the notion of insurance-finance arbitrage. In this paper we extend thei

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  December 9, 2022

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities

We study an extension of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process that incorporates jumps at deterministic dates, referred to as stochastic discontinuities. Our main motivation stems from short-rate modelling in the context of overnight rates, which often exhibit jumps at predetermined dates correspondi

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 2.5 ·  September 19, 2025

Benchmark-Neutral Risk-Minimization for insurance products and nonreplicable claims

In this paper we study the pricing and hedging of nonreplicable contingent claims, such as long-term insurance contracts like variable annuities. Our approach is based on the benchmark-neutral pricing framework of Platen (2024), which differs from the classical benchmark approach by using the stock

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 2 ·  June 24, 2025

The Unfairness of $\varepsilon$-Fairness

Fairness in decision-making processes is often quantified using probabilistic metrics. However, these metrics may not fully capture the real-world consequences of unfairness. In this article, we adopt a utility-based approach to more accurately measure the real-world impacts of decision-making proce

Lab Rats Math 5.5 Rigor 3 ·  May 15, 2024

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