Investigating Short-Term Dynamics in Green Bond Markets

The paper investigates the effect of the label green in bond markets from the lens of the trading activity. The idea is that jumps in the dynamics of returns have a specific memory nature that can be well represented through a self-exciting process. Specifically, using Hawkes processes where the int

August 23, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Learning to Learn Financial Networks for Optimising Momentum Strategies

Network momentum provides a novel type of risk premium, which exploits the interconnections among assets in a financial network to predict future returns. However, the current process of constructing financial networks relies heavily on expensive databases and financial expertise, limiting accessibi

August 23, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Retail Demand Forecasting: A Comparative Study for Multivariate Time Series

Accurate demand forecasting in the retail industry is a critical determinant of financial performance and supply chain efficiency. As global markets become increasingly interconnected, businesses are turning towards advanced prediction models to gain a competitive edge. However, existing literature

August 23, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Analysis of Optimal Portfolio Management Using Hierarchical Clustering

Portfolio optimization is a task that investors use to determine the best allocations for their investments, and fund managers implement computational models to help guide their decisions. While one of the most common portfolio optimization models in the industry is the Markowitz Model, practitioner

August 22, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Designing an attack-defense game: how to increase robustness of financial transaction models via a competition

Banks routinely use neural networks to make decisions. While these models offer higher accuracy, they are susceptible to adversarial attacks, a risk often overlooked in the context of event sequences, particularly sequences of financial transactions, as most works consider computer vision and NLP mo

August 22, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Network Momentum across Asset Classes

We investigate the concept of network momentum, a novel trading signal derived from momentum spillover across assets. Initially observed within the confines of pairwise economic and fundamental ties, such as the stock-bond connection of the same company and stocks linked through supply-demand chains

August 22, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

NLP-based detection of systematic anomalies among the narratives of consumer complaints

We develop an NLP-based procedure for detecting systematic nonmeritorious consumer complaints, simply called systematic anomalies, among complaint narratives. While classification algorithms are used to detect pronounced anomalies, in the case of smaller and frequent systematic anomalies, the algori

August 22, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Optimal Robust Reinsurance with Multiple Insurers

We study a reinsurer who faces multiple sources of model uncertainty. The reinsurer offers contracts to $n$ insurers whose claims follow compound Poisson processes representing both idiosyncratic and systemic sources of loss. As the reinsurer is uncertain about the insurers’ claim severity distribut

August 22, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Analytical valuation of vulnerable derivative claims with bilateral cash flows under credit, funding and wrong-way risk

We study the problem of valuing and hedging a vulnerable derivative claim with bilateral cash flows between two counterparties in the presence of asymmetric funding costs, defaults and wrong way risk (WWR). We characterize the pre-default claim value as the solution to a non-linear Cauchy problem. W

August 21, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

D-TIPO: Deep time-inconsistent portfolio optimization with stocks and options

In this paper, we propose a machine learning algorithm for time-inconsistent portfolio optimization. The proposed algorithm builds upon neural network based trading schemes, in which the asset allocation at each time point is determined by a a neural network. The loss function is given by an empiric

August 21, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Explicit Computations for Delayed Semistatic Hedging

In this work we consider the exponential utility maximization problem in the framework of semistatic hedging.

August 21, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space

Digital Real Estate in the Metaverse: An Empirical Analysis of Retail Investor Motivations

This paper investigates retail investor motivations for digital real estate ownership in the crypto-metaverse. Utilizing a detailed financial behavior survey of metaverse landowners’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, we apply principal components analysis to uncover four distinct motivational gro

August 20, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Do We Price Happiness? Evidence from Korean Stock Market

This study explores the potential of internet search volume data, specifically Google Trends, as an indicator for cross-sectional stock returns. Unlike previous studies, our research specifically investigates the search volume of the topic ‘happiness’ and its impact on stock returns in the aspect of

August 19, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

To the Moon: Analyzing Collective Trading Events on the Wings of Sentiment Analysis

This research investigates the growing trend of retail investors participating in certain stocks by organizing themselves on social media platforms, particularly Reddit. Previous studies have highlighted a notable association between Reddit activity and the volatility of affected stocks. This study

August 19, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Black-Litterman, Bayesian Shrinkage, and Factor Models in Portfolio Selection: You Can Have It All

Mean-variance analysis is widely used in portfolio management to identify the best portfolio that makes an optimal trade-off between expected return and volatility. Yet, this method has its limitations, notably its vulnerability to estimation errors and its reliance on historical data. While shrinka

August 18, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Diffusion Variational Autoencoder for Tackling Stochasticity in Multi-Step Regression Stock Price Prediction

Multi-step stock price prediction over a long-term horizon is crucial for forecasting its volatility, allowing financial institutions to price and hedge derivatives, and banks to quantify the risk in their trading books. Additionally, most financial regulators also require a liquidity horizon of sev

August 18, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

IMM: An Imitative Reinforcement Learning Approach with Predictive Representation Learning for Automatic Market Making

Market making (MM) has attracted significant attention in financial trading owing to its essential function in ensuring market liquidity. With strong capabilities in sequential decision-making, Reinforcement Learning (RL) technology has achieved remarkable success in quantitative trading. Nonetheles

August 17, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Improving Capital Efficiency and Impermanent Loss: Multi-Token Proactive Market Maker

Current approaches to the cryptocurrency automated market makers result in poor impermanent loss and capital efficiency. We analyze the mechanics underlying DODO Exchange’s proactive market maker (PMM) to probe for solutions to these issues, leading to our key insight of multi-token trading pools. W

August 17, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

Semi-analytic pricing of American options in time-dependent jump-diffusion models with exponential jumps

In this paper we propose a semi-analytic approach to pricing American options for time-dependent jump-diffusions models with exponential jumps The idea of the method is to further generalize our approach developed for pricing barrier, [“Itkin et al., 2021”], and American, [“Carr and Itkin, 2021; Itk

August 17, 2023 · 2 min · thequant.space

When to efficiently rebalance a portfolio

A constant weight asset allocation is a popular investment strategy and is optimal under a suitable continuous model. We study the tracking error for the target continuous rebalancing strategy by a feasible discrete-in-time rebalancing under a general multi-dimensional Brownian semimartingale model

August 17, 2023 · 1 min · thequant.space