One-Shot Individual Claims Reserving

Individual claims reserving has not yet become established in actuarial practice. We attribute this to the absence of a satisfactory methodology: existing approaches tend to be either overly complex or insufficiently flexible and robust for practical use. Building on the classical chain-ladder (CL)

March 12, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

A Bipartite Graph Approach to U.S.-China Cross-Market Return Forecasting

This paper studies cross-market return predictability through a machine learning framework that preserves economic structure. Exploiting the non-overlapping trading hours of the U.S. and Chinese equity markets, we construct a directed bipartite graph that captures time-ordered predictive linkages be

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

FinReflectKG -- HalluBench: GraphRAG Hallucination Benchmark for Financial Question Answering Systems

As organizations increasingly integrate AI-powered question-answering systems into financial information systems for compliance, risk assessment, and decision support, ensuring the factual accuracy of AI-generated outputs becomes a critical engineering challenge. Current Knowledge Graph (KG)-augment

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

On Utility Maximization under Multivariate Fake Stationary Affine Volterra Models

This paper is concerned with Merton’s portfolio optimization problem in a Volterra stochastic environment described by a multivariate fake stationary Volterra–Heston model. Due to the non-Markovianity and non-semimartingality of the underlying processes, the classical stochastic control approach ca

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Risk-Adjusted Harm Scoring for Automated Red Teaming for LLMs in Financial Services

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in financial services introduces new operational, regulatory, and security risks. Yet most red-teaming benchmarks remain domain-agnostic and fail to capture failure modes specific to regulated BFSI settings, where harmful behavior can be elicited th

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

SPX-VIX Risk Computations Via Perturbed Optimal Transport

We propose a model independent framework for generating SPX and VIX risk scenarios based on a joint optimal transport calibration of their market smiles. Starting from the entropic martingale optimal transport formulation of Guyon, we introduce a perturbation methodology that computes sensitivities

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Weighted Generalized Risk Measure and Risk Quadrangle: Characterization, Optimization and Application

Various financial market scenarios may cause heterogeneous risk assessments among analysts, which motivates the usage of the Generalized Risk Measure in Fadina et al. (2024, Finance and Stochastics). Effectively synthesizing these diverse assessments avoids over-relying on a single, potentially flaw

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

When David becomes Goliath: Repo dealer-driven bond mispricing

This paper studies the impact of funding market frictions on bond prices and market-wide liquidity. Using proprietary transaction-level data on all gilt-backed repo and reverse-repo trades, we demonstrate how the market power of individual dealers and their linkages generate frictions. Specifically,

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Win-score promotion gates in aggregator-routed RFQ markets: A two-tier stochastic control model

We study market making in aggregator-routed RFQ markets where platform routing depends on slowly varying dealer performance scores. We propose a two-tier stochastic control model that separates RFQ-level price competition from a macro routing layer: tier A represents aggregator flow whose opportunit

March 11, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

AlgoXpert Alpha Research Framework. A Rigorous IS WFA OOS Protocol for Mitigating Overfitting in Quantitative Strategies

Transitioning a strategy from backtest to live trading is a common failure point for quantitative systems due to parameter overfitting, selection bias, and sensitivity to regime changes. This paper presents the AlgoXpert Alpha Research Framework, a standardized protocol that evaluates strategies acr

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

AlphaLogics: A Market Logic-Driven Multi-Agent System for Scalable and Interpretable Alpha Factor Generation

Factor investing is ultimately grounded in market logic - the latent mechanism behind observed alpha factors that explains why they should persist across assets and regimes. However, recent factor mining prioritizes factor discovery over logic discovery, producing complex alpha factors with unclear

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

An operator-level ARCH Model

AutoRegressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) models are standard for modeling time series exhibiting volatility, with a rich literature in univariate and multivariate settings. In recent years, these models have been extended to function spaces. However, functional ARCH and generalized ARCH

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Caratheodory II: The Geometry of Financial Irreversibility

In quantum mechanics and finance, numeraire invariance - the unobservability of absolute phase or price scale - fits with a projective and curved state space. This projective geometry has a measurable signature. For spin-one and higher spin systems, the Taylor expansion of directed distance contains

March 10, 2026 · 1 min · thequant.space

Competition between DEXs through Dynamic Fees

We find an approximate Nash equilibrium in a game between decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that compete for order flow by setting dynamic trading fees. We characterize the equilibrium via a coupled system of partial differential equations and derive tractable approximate closed-form expressions for th

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Constructing a Portfolio Optimization Benchmark Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models

This study introduces a benchmark framework for evaluating the financial decision-making capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through portfolio optimization problems with mathematically explicit solutions. Unlike existing financial benchmarks that emphasize language-processing tasks, the pro

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Global universality via discrete-time signatures

We establish global universal approximation theorems on spaces of piecewise linear paths, stating that linear functionals of the corresponding signatures are dense with respect to $L^p$- and weighted norms, under an integrability condition on the underlying weight function. As an application, we sho

March 10, 2026 · 1 min · thequant.space

Hybrid Hidden Markov Model for Modeling Equity Excess Growth Rate Dynamics: A Discrete-State Approach with Jump-Diffusion

Generating synthetic financial time series that preserve the statistical properties of real market data is essential for stress testing, risk model validation, and scenario design. Existing approaches struggle to simultaneously reproduce heavy-tailed distributions, negligible linear autocorrelation,

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Investor risk profiles of large language models

This paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) form and express investor risk profiles, a critical component of retail investment advising. We examine three LLMs (GPT, Gemini, and Llama) and assess their responses to a standardized risk questionnaire under varying prompts. In particular, w

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Modeling structure and credit risk of the economy: a multilayer bank-firm network approach

Assessing the resilience of the economy requires accounting for its intrinsic multi-layer nature, by assessing for instance how disruptions at the firm level spread through the production network and propagate to the banking sector. Methods exist to measure the reverberation of shocks over the multi

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space

Slippage-at-Risk (SaR): A Forward-Looking Liquidity Risk Framework for Perpetual Futures Exchanges

We introduce $\textbf{Slippage-at-Risk (SaR)}$, a quantitative framework for measuring liquidity risk in perpetual futures exchanges. Unlike backward-looking metrics such as Value-at-Risk computed on historical returns or realized deficit distributions, SaR provides a \emph{forward-looking} assessme

March 10, 2026 · 2 min · thequant.space