Numerical Claim Detection in Finance: A New Financial Dataset, Weak-Supervision Model, and Market Analysis

In this paper, we investigate the influence of claims in analyst reports and earnings calls on financial market returns, considering them as significant quarterly events for publicly traded companies. To facilitate a comprehensive analysis, we construct a new financial dataset for the claim detectio

February 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Ploutos: Towards interpretable stock movement prediction with financial large language model

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have opened new pathways for many domains. However, the full potential of LLMs in financial investments remains largely untapped. There are two main challenges for typical deep learning-based methods for quantitative finance. First, they struggle t

February 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Stackelberg reinsurance and premium decisions with MV criterion and irreversibility

We study a reinsurance Stackelberg game in which both the insurer and the reinsurer adopt the mean-variance (abbr. MV) criterion in their decision-making and the reinsurance is irreversible. We apply a unified singular control framework where irreversible reinsurance contracts can be signed in both

February 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

The Gerber-Shiu Expected Discounted Penalty Function: An Application to Poverty Trapping

In this article, we consider a risk process to model the capital of a household. Our work focuses on the analysis of the trapping time of such a process, where trapping occurs when a household’s capital level falls into the poverty area. A function analogous to the classical Gerber-Shiu function is

February 18, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

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

February 17, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Emoji Driven Crypto Assets Market Reactions

In the burgeoning realm of cryptocurrency, social media platforms like Twitter have become pivotal in influencing market trends and investor sentiments. In our study, we leverage GPT-4 and a fine-tuned transformer-based BERT model for a multimodal sentiment analysis, focusing on the impact of emoji

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Modelling crypto markets by multi-agent reinforcement learning

Building on a previous foundation work (Lussange et al. 2020), this study introduces a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) model simulating crypto markets, which is calibrated to the Binance’s daily closing prices of $153$ cryptocurrencies that were continuously traded between 2018 and 2022. U

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

RAGIC: Risk-Aware Generative Adversarial Model for Stock Interval Construction

Efforts to predict stock market outcomes have yielded limited success due to the inherently stochastic nature of the market, influenced by numerous unpredictable factors. Many existing prediction approaches focus on single-point predictions, lacking the depth needed for effective decision-making and

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Towards Financially Inclusive Credit Products Through Financial Time Series Clustering

Financial inclusion ensures that individuals have access to financial products and services that meet their needs. As a key contributing factor to economic growth and investment opportunity, financial inclusion increases consumer spending and consequently business development. It has been shown that

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Alpha-GPT 2.0: Human-in-the-Loop AI for Quantitative Investment

Recently, we introduced a new paradigm for alpha mining in the realm of quantitative investment, developing a new interactive alpha mining system framework, Alpha-GPT. This system is centered on iterative Human-AI interaction based on large language models, introducing a Human-in-the-Loop approach t

February 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Regulating Cryptocurrency and Decentralized Finance for an Inclusive Economy

The evolution of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) marks a significant shift in the financial landscape, making it more accessible, inclusive, and participative for various societal groups. However, this transition from traditional financial institutions to DeFi demands a meticulous po

February 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Semi-parametric financial risk forecasting incorporating multiple realized measures

A semi-parametric joint Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) forecasting framework employing multiple realized measures is developed. The proposed framework extends the realized exponential GARCH model to be semi-parametrically estimated, via a joint loss function, whilst extending existi

February 15, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Combating Financial Crimes with Unsupervised Learning Techniques: Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction for Anti-Money Laundering

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is a crucial task in ensuring the integrity of financial systems. One keychallenge in AML is identifying high-risk groups based on their behavior. Unsupervised learning, particularly clustering, is a promising solution for this task. However, the use of hundreds of featur

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Detecting Anomalous Events in Object-centric Business Processes via Graph Neural Networks

Detecting anomalies is important for identifying inefficiencies, errors, or fraud in business processes. Traditional process mining approaches focus on analyzing ‘flattened’, sequential, event logs based on a single case notion. However, many real-world process executions exhibit a graph-like struct

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Exact simulation scheme for the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck driven stochastic volatility model with the Karhunen-Loève expansions

This study proposes a new exact simulation scheme of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck driven stochastic volatility model. With the Karhunen-Loève expansions, the stochastic volatility path following the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process is expressed as a sine series, and the time integrals of volatility and variance

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Extended mean-field games with multi-dimensional singular controls and non-linear jump impact

We establish a probabilistic framework for analysing extended mean-field games with multi-dimensional singular controls and state-dependent jump dynamics and costs. Two key challenges arise when analysing such games: the state dynamics may not depend continuously on the control and the reward functi

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

On the Potential of Network-Based Features for Fraud Detection

Online transaction fraud presents substantial challenges to businesses and consumers, risking significant financial losses. Conventional rule-based systems struggle to keep pace with evolving fraud tactics, leading to high false positive rates and missed detections. Machine learning techniques offer

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Automated Market Makers: Differentiable Economics and Strong Duality

The role of a market maker is to simultaneously offer to buy and sell quantities of goods, often a financial asset such as a share, at specified prices. An automated market maker (AMM) is a mechanism that offers to trade according to some predetermined schedule; the best choice of this schedule depe

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Randomized Control in Performance Analysis and Empirical Asset Pricing

The present article explores the application of randomized control techniques in empirical asset pricing and performance evaluation. It introduces geometric random walks, a class of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, to construct flexible control groups in the form of random portfolios adhering to in

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space

Regional inflation analysis using social network data

Inflation is one of the most important macroeconomic indicators that have a great impact on the population of any country and region. Inflation is influenced by range of factors, one of which is inflation expectations. Many central banks take this factor into consideration while implementing monetar

February 14, 2024 · 2 min · thequant.space