Analisis cuantitativo de riesgos utilizando "MCSimulRisk" como herramienta didactica

Risk management is a fundamental discipline in project management, which includes, among others, quantitative risk analysis. Throughout several years of teaching, we have observed difficulties in students performing Monte Carlo Simulation within the quantitative analysis of risks. This article aims

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Beyond probability-impact matrices in project risk management: A quantitative methodology for risk prioritisation

The project managers who deal with risk management are often faced with the difficult task of determining the relative importance of the various sources of risk that affect the project. This prioritisation is crucial to direct management efforts to ensure higher project profitability. Risk matrices

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Impact of aleatoric, stochastic and epistemic uncertainties on project cost contingency reserves

In construction projects, contingency reserves have traditionally been estimated based on a percentage of the total project cost, which is arbitrary and, thus, unreliable in practical cases. Monte Carlo simulation provides a more reliable estimation. However, works on this topic have focused exclusi

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Loss-Versus-Fair: Efficiency of Dutch Auctions on Blockchains

Milionis et al.(2023) studied the rate at which automated market makers leak value to arbitrageurs when block times are discrete and follow a Poisson process, and where the risky asset price follows a geometric Brownian motion. We extend their model to analyze another popular mechanism in decentrali

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

On the project risk baseline: integrating aleatory uncertainty into project scheduling

Obtaining a viable schedule baseline that meets all project constraints is one of the main issues for project managers. The literature on this topic focuses mainly on methods to obtain schedules that meet resource restrictions and, more recently, financial limitations. The methods provide different

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Project Risk Management from the bottom-up: Activity Risk Index

Project managers need to manage risks throughout the project lifecycle and, thus, need to know how changes in activity durations influence project duration and risk. We propose a new indicator (the Activity Risk Index, ARI) that measures the contribution of each activity to the total project risk wh

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Stochastic Earned Value Analysis using Monte Carlo Simulation and Statistical Learning Techniques

The aim of this paper is to describe a new an integrated methodology for project control under uncertainty. This proposal is based on Earned Value Methodology and risk analysis and presents several refinements to previous methodologies. More specifically, the approach uses extensive Monte Carlo simu

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Transforming Japan Real Estate

The Japanese real estate market, valued over 35 trillion USD, offers significant investment opportunities. Accurate rent and price forecasting could provide a substantial competitive edge. This paper explores using alternative data variables to predict real estate performance in 1100 Japanese munici

May 31, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Low-dimensional approximations of the conditional law of Volterra processes: a non-positive curvature approach

Predicting the conditional evolution of Volterra processes with stochastic volatility is a crucial challenge in mathematical finance. While deep neural network models offer promise in approximating the conditional law of such processes, their effectiveness is hindered by the curse of dimensionality

May 30, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Visualization of Board of Director Connections for Analysis in Socially Responsible Investing

This project is a collaboration between industry and academia to delve into Finance Social Networks, specifically the Board of Directors of public companies. Knowing the connections between Directors and Executives in different companies can generate powerful stories and meaningful insights on inves

May 30, 2024 · 1 min · thequant.space

A Tick-by-Tick Solution for Concentrated Liquidity Provisioning

Automated market makers with concentrated liquidity capabilities are programmable at the tick level. The maximization of earned fees, plus depreciated reserves, is a convex optimization problem whose vector solution gives the best provision of liquidity at each tick under a given set of parameter es

May 29, 2024 · 1 min · thequant.space

HLOB -- Information Persistence and Structure in Limit Order Books

We introduce a novel large-scale deep learning model for Limit Order Book mid-price changes forecasting, and we name it `HLOB’. This architecture (i) exploits the information encoded by an Information Filtering Network, namely the Triangulated Maximally Filtered Graph, to unveil deeper and non-trivi

May 29, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimizing Broker Performance Evaluation through Intraday Modeling of Execution Cost

Minimizing execution costs for large orders is a fundamental challenge in finance. Firms often depend on brokers to manage their trades due to limited internal resources for optimizing trading strategies. This paper presents a methodology for evaluating the effectiveness of broker execution algorith

May 29, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Phase transitions in debt recycling

Debt recycling is an aggressive equity extraction strategy that potentially permits faster repayment of a mortgage. While equity progressively builds up as the mortgage is repaid monthly, mortgage holders may obtain another loan they could use to invest on a risky asset. The wealth produced by a suc

May 29, 2024 · 3 min · thequant.space

Worst-cases of distortion riskmetrics and weighted entropy with partial information

In this paper, we discuss the worst-case of distortion riskmetrics for general distributions when only partial information (mean and variance) is known. This result is applicable to general class of distortion risk measures and variability measures. Furthermore, we also consider worst-case of weight

May 29, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Novel Approach to Queue-Reactive Models: The Importance of Order Sizes

In this article, we delve into the applications and extensions of the queue-reactive model for the simulation of limit order books. Our approach emphasizes the importance of order sizes, in conjunction with their type and arrival rate, by integrating the current state of the order book to determine,

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Constrained monotone mean--variance investment-reinsurance under the Cramér--Lundberg model with random coefficients

This paper studies an optimal investment-reinsurance problem for an insurer (she) under the Cramér–Lundberg model with monotone mean–variance (MMV) criterion. At any time, the insurer can purchase reinsurance (or acquire new business) and invest in a security market consisting of a risk-free asset a

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Exploring Sectoral Profitability in the Indian Stock Market Using Deep Learning

This paper explores using a deep learning Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model for accurate stock price prediction and its implications for portfolio design. Despite the efficient market hypothesis suggesting that predicting stock prices is impossible, recent research has shown the potential of advan

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimizing Sharpe Ratio: Risk-Adjusted Decision-Making in Multi-Armed Bandits

Sharpe Ratio (SR) is a critical parameter in characterizing financial time series as it jointly considers the reward and the volatility of any stock/portfolio through its variance. Deriving online algorithms for optimizing the SR is particularly challenging since even offline policies experience con

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Risk-Neutral Generative Networks

We present a functional generative approach to extract risk-neutral densities from market prices of options. Specifically, we model the log-returns on the time-to-maturity continuum as a stochastic curve driven by standard normal. We then use neural nets to represent the term structures of the locat

May 28, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space