Supervised learning for financial economics, sustainable equity investing and the impact of AI on organizations.
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Randomness in large language models: What researchers need to know (and report)
Persistent anomalies and nonstandard Sharpe ratios
Higher education in the era of Generative AI: Survival under quality-differentiation
Posterior drift in equity premium forecasts
Global p-values in multi-design studies
Can corporate incentives deliver decarbonization?
Revise & resubmit, Journal of Corporate Finance
An anatomy of decarbonizing firms
Factor investing with reinforcement learning
Characteristics-driven returns in equilibrium
Interactions in Asset Pricing
Sustainability in commodity markets
Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 184, pp. 107599
Winner of the cascad best reproduced paper award at the 2024 AFFI conference
The biodiversity premium
Ecological Economics Vol. 228
Unexpected opportunities in misspecified predictive regressions
European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 318, No. 2, pp. 686–700
ESG news spillovers across the value chain
Financial Management Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 677–710
Dynamic decision making with predictive panels
Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 1055–1075
Scopes of carbon emissions and their impact on green portfolios
Economic Modelling Vol. 115
The determinants of health assessment in the United States: A supervised learning approach
Healthcare Analytics Vol. 2
Persistence in factor-based supervised learning models
Journal of Finance & Data Science Vol. 8, pp. 12–34
A note on implied correlation for bivariate contracts
Economics Bulletin Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 1388–1396
Training trees on tails with applications to portfolio choice
Annals of Operations Research Vol. 288, pp. 181–221
Procedural Rationality, Asset Heterogeneity and Market Selection
Journal of Mathematical Economics Vol. 82, pp. 125–149
Herding behavior among wine investors
Economic Modelling Vol. 68, pp. 318–328
Empirical properties of a heterogeneous agent model in large dimensions
Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control Vol. 77, pp. 180–201
Approximate NORTA simulations for virtual sample generation
Expert Systems With Applications Vol. 73, pp. 69–81
An investigation of model risk in a market with jumps and stochastic volatility
European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 253, pp. 648–658
Characteristics-based portfolio choice with leverage constraints
Journal of Banking and Finance Vol. 70, pp. 23–37
On the distribution of the supremum of the spectrally negative stable process with drift
Statistics & Probability Letters Vol. 107, pp. 333–340
Diversified minimum-variance portfolios
Annals of Finance Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 221–241
Optimal wine pricing for restaurants
Journal of Wine Economics Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 204–224
Second order risk aggregation with the Bernstein copula
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics Vol. 58, pp. 150–158
Lookback option prices under a spectrally negative tempered-stable model
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance Vol. 16, No. 3
Meromorphic Levy-Khintchine exponents with poles of order two
Communications on Stochastic Analysis Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 179–198
Approximation of probabilistic Laplace transforms and their inverses
Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 231–246
CRC / Chapman Hall, March 2022
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Cross-Asset Climate Betas
Journal of Portfolio Management Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 143–163
The impact of climate change risk on long-term asset allocation
Journal of Portfolio Management Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 238–263
International market exposure to sovereign ESG
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 968–987
Interpretable supervised portfolios
Journal of Financial Data Science Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 10–34
Supervised portfolios
Quantitative Finance Vol. 22, No. 12, pp. 2275–2295
Tuning trend following strategies with macro ESG data
Journal of Impact & ESG Investing Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 117–136
Stock-specific sentiment and return predictability
Quantitative Finance Vol. 20, No. 9, pp. 1531–1551
Machine learning in systematic equity allocation: a model comparison
Wilmott Magazine Vol. 2018, Issue 98, pp. 24–33
Equity portfolios with improved liability-hedging benefits
Journal of Portfolio Management Vol. 43, No. 2 (Winter 2017), pp. 37–49
Enhancing Environment-driven Portfolios with Traditional Factors
Climate and Sustainable Investing edited by E. Jurczenko
Book review: Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice (by Dixon, Halperin and Bilokon)
Quantitative Finance
Ensemble learning applied to quant equity: gradient boosting in a multifactor framework
Big Data and Machine Learning in Quantitative Investment edited by T. Guida
Forking paths in empirical studies
Boosting ESG-Based Optimization With Asset Pricing Characteristics
Stock returns and the cross-section of characteristics: a tree-based approach
Active allocation to smart factor indices
Scientific Beta Research Paper
Estimation of covariance matrices for portfolio optimization
Scientific Beta Research Paper
Equity portfolios with improved liability-hedging benefits (long version)
Risk aggregation with the generalized logistic distribution
Pricing exotic options in the Finite Moment Log-Stable model
Explaining green returns
Advances in asset pricing