Automated Market Makers: Mean-Variance Analysis of LPs Payoffs and Design of Pricing Functions

With the emergence of decentralized finance, new trading mechanisms called Automated Market Makers have appeared. The most popular Automated Market Makers are Constant Function Market Makers. They have been studied both theoretically and empirically. In particular, the concept of impermanent loss ha

December 1, 2022 · 2 min · thequant.space

Dynamic and static fund separations and their stability for long-term optimal investments

This paper investigates dynamic and static fund separations and their stability for long-term optimal investments under three model classes. An investor maximizes the expected utility with constant relative risk aversion under an incomplete market consisting of a safe asset, several risky assets, an

December 1, 2022 · 2 min · thequant.space

Economics of NFTs: The Value of Creator Royalties

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are transforming how content creators, such as artists, price and sell their work. A key feature of NFTs is the inclusion of royalties, which grant creators a share of all future resale proceeds. Although widely used, critics argue that sophisticated speculators, who domin

December 1, 2022 · 2 min · thequant.space

Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists

Do institutional investors invest efficiently? To study this question I combine a novel dataset of over 16,000 startups (representing over $9 billion in investm

June 23, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

Gas, Guns, and Governments: Financial Costs of Anti-ESG Policies

We study how restricting intermediary contracting over ESG policies distorts financial market outcomes. In 2021 Texas prohibited municipalities from hiring bank

June 7, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

GreenFinanceand Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of China

The paper seeks to explore the role of green finance in achieving sustainable development goals through the case of China, and address some issues of sustainabl

March 24, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?

The growth of so-called “shadow banking” was a significant contributor to the financial crisis of 2008, which had huge social costs that we still grapple with t

February 25, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

The Effect of Digital Marketing, DigitalFinanceand Digital Payment onFinancePerformance of Indonesian SMEs

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of digital finance, digital marketing and digital payment variables on finance performance. This study uses q

February 2, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

DecentralizedFinance—A Systematic Literature Review and Research Directions

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the (r)evolutionary movement to create a solely code-based, intermediary-independent financial system—a movement which has grown

January 28, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

Legal Implications of a Ubiquitous Metaverse and a Web3 Future

The metaverse is understood to be an immersive virtual world serving as the locus for all forms of work, education, and entertainment experiences. Depicted in b

January 10, 2022 · 1 min · thequant.space

Mandatory CSR and Sustainability Reporting: Economic Analysis and Literature Review

This study collates potential economic effects of mandated disclosure and reporting standards for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability topic

October 18, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

ETF Risk Models

We discuss how to build ETF risk models. Our approach anchors on i) first building a multilevel (non-)binary classification/taxonomy for ETFs, which is utilized in order to define the risk factors, and ii) then building the risk models based on these risk factors by utilizing the heterotic risk mode

October 14, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

Financial Analysis of Tesla

This study has done based on the financial analysis of Tesla, inc. to understand its financial position throughout the year 2017 to 2020. The fundamental purpos

September 1, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

FinBERT - A Large Language Model for Extracting Information from Financial Text

We develop FinBERT, a state-of-the-art large language model that adapts to the finance domain. We show that FinBERT incorporates finance knowledge and can bette

August 27, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

DeFi Protocol Risks: The Paradox of DeFi

Decentralized Finance (or “DeFi”) is growing in volume and in importance. DeFi promises cheaper and more open access to financial services by reducing the costs

August 6, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

Selling Fast and Buying Slow: Heuristics and Trading Performance of Institutional Investors

Are market experts prone to heuristics, and if so, do they transfer across closely related domains—buying and selling? We investigate this question using a uniq

July 26, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

ESG Lending

Firms increasingly borrow via sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), contractually tying spreads to their ESG performance. SLLs vary widely in transparency of disc

June 11, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

Cryptocurrency & Its Impact on Environment

Cryptocurrencies have gone a long way since their inception. While the conventional financial sector initially dismissed digital currencies as tools for crooks

May 18, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

DecentralizedFinance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets

The term decentralized finance (DeFi) refers to an alternative financial infrastructure built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. DeFi uses smart contracts to cr

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space

Impacts, Challenges and Trends of Digital Transformation in the Banking Sector

Driven by the 2020 pandemic’s work-at-home mandates, the future of work in banking and finance may be in the midst of disruptive change. The digital transformat

April 28, 2021 · 1 min · thequant.space