A path-dependent PDE solver based on signature kernels

We develop a provably convergent kernel-based solver for path-dependent PDEs (PPDEs). Our numerical scheme leverages signature kernels, a recently introduced class of kernels on path-space. Specifically, we solve an optimal recovery problem by approximating the solution of a PPDE with an element of

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Advanced Statistical Arbitrage with Reinforcement Learning

Statistical arbitrage is a prevalent trading strategy which takes advantage of mean reverse property of spread of paired stocks. Studies on this strategy often rely heavily on model assumption. In this study, we introduce an innovative model-free and reinforcement learning based framework for statis

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Asset management with an ESG mandate

We investigate the portfolio frontier and risk premia in equilibrium when institutional investors aim to minimize the tracking error variance under an ESG score mandate. If a negative ESG premium is priced in the market, this mandate can reduce portfolio inefficiency when the return over-performance

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

FinLlama: Financial Sentiment Classification for Algorithmic Trading Applications

There are multiple sources of financial news online which influence market movements and trader’s decisions. This highlights the need for accurate sentiment analysis, in addition to having appropriate algorithmic trading techniques, to arrive at better informed trading decisions. Standard lexicon ba

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Nonconcave Robust Utility Maximization under Projective Determinacy

We study a general robust utility maximization problem in a discrete-time frictionless market. The investor is assumed to have a possibly infinite, random, nonconcave, and nondecreasing utility function defined on the whole real line. She also faces model ambiguity on her beliefs about the market, w

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Risk premium and rough volatility

One the one hand, rough volatility has been shown to provide a consistent framework to capture the properties of stock price dynamics both under the historical measure and for pricing purposes. On the other hand, market price of volatility risk is a well-studied object in Financial Economics, and em

March 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Mean-Field Game of Market Entry: Portfolio Liquidation with Trading Constraints

We consider both $N$-player and mean-field games of optimal portfolio liquidation in which the players are not allowed to change the direction of trading. Players with an initially short position of stocks are only allowed to buy while players with an initially long position are only allowed to sell

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Can a GPT4-Powered AI Agent Be a Good Enough Performance Attribution Analyst?

Performance attribution analysis, defined as the process of explaining the drivers of the excess performance of an investment portfolio against a benchmark, stands as a significant feature of portfolio management and plays a crucial role in the investment decision-making process, particularly within

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Chain-structured neural architecture search for financial time series forecasting

Neural architecture search (NAS) emerged as a way to automatically optimize neural networks for a specific task and dataset. Despite an abundance of research on NAS for images and natural language applications, similar studies for time series data are lacking. Among NAS search spaces, chain-structur

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Default Resilience and Worst-Case Effects in Financial Networks

In this paper we analyze the resilience of a network of banks to joint price fluctuations of the external assets in which they have shared exposures, and evaluate the worst-case effects of the possible default contagion. Indeed, when the prices of certain external assets either decrease or increase,

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Empowering Credit Scoring Systems with Quantum-Enhanced Machine Learning

Quantum Kernels are projected to provide early-stage usefulness for quantum machine learning. However, highly sophisticated classical models are hard to surpass without losing interpretability, particularly when vast datasets can be exploited. Nonetheless, classical models struggle once data is scar

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Household Leverage Cycle Around the Great Recession

This paper provides the first causal evidence that credit supply expansion caused the 1999-2010 U.S. business cycle mainly through the channel of household leverage (debt-to-income ratio). Specifically, induced by net export growth, credit expansion in private-label mortgages, rather than government

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Improving Fairness in Credit Lending Models using Subgroup Threshold Optimization

In an effort to improve the accuracy of credit lending decisions, many financial intuitions are now using predictions from machine learning models. While such predictions enjoy many advantages, recent research has shown that the predictions have the potential to be biased and unfair towards certain

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Missing Data Imputation With Granular Semantics and AI-driven Pipeline for Bankruptcy Prediction

This work focuses on designing a pipeline for the prediction of bankruptcy. The presence of missing values, high dimensional data, and highly class-imbalance databases are the major challenges in the said task. A new method for missing data imputation with granular semantics has been introduced here

March 15, 2024 · 3 min · thequant.space

Optimal Portfolio Choice with Cross-Impact Propagators

We consider a class of optimal portfolio choice problems in continuous time where the agent’s transactions create both transient cross-impact driven by a matrix-valued Volterra propagator, as well as temporary price impact. We formulate this problem as the maximization of a revenue-risk functional,

March 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Deep Limit Order Book Forecasting

We exploit cutting-edge deep learning methodologies to explore the predictability of high-frequency Limit Order Book mid-price changes for a heterogeneous set of stocks traded on the NASDAQ exchange. In so doing, we release `LOBFrame’, an open-source code base to efficiently process large-scale Limi

March 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Hydrodynamics of Markets:Hidden Links Between Physics and Finance

An intriguing link between a wide range of problems occurring in physics and financial engineering is presented. These problems include the evolution of small perturbations of linear flows in hydrodynamics, the movements of particles in random fields described by the Kolmogorov and Klein-Kramers equ

March 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Layer 2 be or Layer not 2 be: Scaling on Uniswap v3

This paper studies the market structure impact of cheaper and faster chains on the Uniswap v3 Protocol. The Uniswap Protocol is the largest decentralized application on Ethereum by both gas and blockspace used, and user behaviors of the protocol are very sensitive to fluctuations in gas prices and m

March 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Robust SGLD algorithm for solving non-convex distributionally robust optimisation problems

In this paper we develop a Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) algorithm tailored for solving a certain class of non-convex distributionally robust optimisation (DRO) problems. By deriving non-asymptotic convergence bounds, we build an algorithm which for any prescribed accuracy $\varepsilo

March 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Mean-Field Microcanonical Gradient Descent

Microcanonical gradient descent is a sampling procedure for energy-based models allowing for efficient sampling of distributions in high dimension. It works by transporting samples from a high-entropy distribution, such as Gaussian white noise, to a low-energy region using gradient descent. We put t

March 13, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space