TransCORALNet: A Two-Stream Transformer CORAL Networks for Supply Chain Credit Assessment Cold Start

This paper proposes an interpretable two-stream transformer CORAL networks (TransCORALNet) for supply chain credit assessment under the segment industry and cold start problem. The model aims to provide accurate credit assessment prediction for new supply chain borrowers with limited historical data

November 30, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Interaction uncertainty in financial networks

A minimal stochastic dynamical model of the interbank network is introduced, with linear interactions mediated by an integral of recent variations. Defining stress as the variance over the banks’ states, the interaction correction to the stress expectation is derived and studied on the short-medium

November 29, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Market Misconduct in Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Analysis, Regulatory Challenges and Policy Implications

Technological advancement drives financial innovation, reshaping the traditional finance landscape and redefining user-market interactions. The rise of blockchain and Decentralized Finance (DeFi) underscores this intertwined evolution of technology and finance. While DeFi has introduced exciting opp

November 29, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Development of a Bankruptcy Prediction Model for the Banking Sector in Mozambique Using Linear Discriminant Analysis

In Mozambique there is no evidence of a bankruptcy prediction model developed in the national economic context, yet, back in 2016, the national banking sector suffered a financial shock that resulted in Mozambique Central Bank intervention in two banks (Moza Banco, S.A. and Nosso Banco, S.A.). This

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Epistemic Limits of Empirical Finance: Causal Reductionism and Self-Reference

The clarion call for causal reduction in the study of capital markets is intensifying. However, in self-referencing and open systems such as capital markets, the idea of unidirectional causation (if applicable) may be limiting at best, and unstable or fallacious at worst. In this work, we critically

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Exponential Utility Maximization with Delay in a Continuous Time Gaussian Framework

In this work we study the continuous time exponential utility maximization problem in the framework of an investor who is informed about the price changes with a delay. This leads to a non-Markovian stochastic control problem. In the case where the risky asset is given by a Gaussian process (with so

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Leverage Staking with Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs): Opportunities and Risks

In the Proof of Stake (PoS) Ethereum ecosystem, users can stake ETH on Lido to receive stETH, a Liquid Staking Derivative (LSD) that represents staked ETH and accrues staking rewards. LSDs improve the liquidity of staked assets by facilitating their use in secondary markets, such as for collateraliz

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Machine-learning regression methods for American-style path-dependent contracts

Evaluating financial products with early-termination clauses, in particular those with path-dependent structures, is challenging. This paper focuses on Asian options, look-back options, and callable certificates. We will compare regression methods for pricing and computing sensitivities, highlightin

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Pricing and hedging for a sticky diffusion

We introduce a financial market model featuring a risky asset whose price follows a sticky geometric Brownian motion and a riskless asset that grows with a constant interest rate $r\in \mathbb R $. We prove that this model satisfies No Arbitrage (NA) and No Free Lunch with Vanishing Risk (NFLVR) onl

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Tail Risk and Systemic Risk Estimation of Cryptocurrencies: an Expectiles and Marginal Expected Shortfall based approach

The issue related to the quantification of the tail risk of cryptocurrencies is considered in this paper. The statistical methods used in the study are those concerning recent developments in Extreme Value Theory (EVT) for weakly dependent data. This research proposes an expectile-based approach for

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

The impact of Hong Kong's anti-ELAB movement on political related firms

Hong Kong’s anti-ELAB movement had a significant impact on the stock market the stock price of listed companies. Using the number of protestors as the measurement of daily protesting intensity from 2019/6/6 to 2020/1/17, this paper documents that the stock price of listed companies associated with t

November 28, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Adaptive Agents and Data Quality in Agent-Based Financial Markets

We present our Agent-Based Market Microstructure Simulation (ABMMS), an Agent-Based Financial Market (ABFM) that captures much of the complexity present in the US National Market System for equities (NMS). Agent-Based models are a natural choice for understanding financial markets. Financial markets

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Deficiency of Large Language Models in Finance: An Empirical Examination of Hallucination

The hallucination issue is recognized as a fundamental deficiency of large language models (LLMs), especially when applied to fields such as finance, education, and law. Despite the growing concerns, there has been a lack of empirical investigation. In this paper, we provide an empirical examination

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Discretization of continuous-time arbitrage strategies in financial markets with fractional Brownian motion

This study evaluates the practical usefulness of continuous-time arbitrage strategies designed to exploit serial correlation in fractional financial markets. Specifically, we revisit the strategies of Shiryaev (1998) and Salopek (1998) and transfer them to a real-world setting by distretizing their

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Improved Data Generation for Enhanced Asset Allocation: A Synthetic Dataset Approach for the Fixed Income Universe

We present a novel process for generating synthetic datasets tailored to assess asset allocation methods and construct portfolios within the fixed income universe. Our approach begins by enhancing the CorrGAN model to generate synthetic correlation matrices. Subsequently, we propose an Encoder-Decod

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Interplay between Cryptocurrency Transactions and Online Financial Forums

Cryptocurrencies are a type of digital money meant to provide security and anonymity while using cryptography techniques. Although cryptocurrencies represent a breakthrough and provide some important benefits, their usage poses some risks that are a result of the lack of supervising institutions and

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Planning for the Efficient Updating of Mutual Fund Portfolios

Once there is a decision of rebalancing or updating a portfolio of funds, the process of changing the current portfolio to the target one, involves a set of transactions that are susceptible of being optimized. This is particularly relevant when managers have to handle the implications of different

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Portfolio Time Consistency and Utility Weighted Discount Rates

Merton portfolio management problem is studied in this paper within a stochastic volatility, non constant time discount rate, and power utility framework. This problem is time inconsistent and the way out of this predicament is to consider the subgame perfect strategies. The later are characterized

November 27, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Supplement Liquidity based modeling of asset price bubbles via random matching

This is a supplement to the paper “Liquidity based modeling of asset price bubbles via random matching”. The supplement is organized as follows. First, we prove Theorem 3.13 in [1] which provides the existence of the dynamical system D introduced in Definition 3.6 in [1]. Second, we show some proper

November 27, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space

Asymptotic Error Analysis of Multilevel Stochastic Approximations for the Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall

Crépey, Frikha, and Louzi (2023) introduced a nested stochastic approximation algorithm and its multilevel acceleration to compute the value-at-risk and expected shortfall of a random financial loss. We hereby establish central limit theorems for the renormalized estimation errors associated with bo

November 26, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space