An empirical study on the Lanchester model of combat for competitive advertising decisions

This paper presents an empirical study on the Lanchester model of combat for competitive advertising decisions. Three issues are evaluated: (i) the specification of the market share response model; (ii) the effect of inflation on the estimation of the response model; and (iii) the performance of competitive strategies. It is shown that (a) the square root function that is used in previous studies is often inappropriate to characterize the market share response model; (b) market share variations are more responsive to current advertising expenditures; (c) closed-loop Nash equilibrium strategies are better competitive advertising strategies for firms to maximize profits than open-loop Nash equilibrium strategies; and (d), finally, general perfect equilibria Nash equilibrium strategies developed by Case are usually not good competitive advertising strategies for firms to maximize profits.     

Black-Litterman模型在大类资产配置中的应用:基于货币周期及风险平价策略的改进

Black-Litterman模型能够有效的解决均值-方差模型对输入(尤其是预期收益率)过于敏感的问题,从而使得其在实践中得到了广泛的应用。采用风险平价策略构造市场均衡组合,并采用基于货币周期的资产轮动收益构造主观观点组合,在将主观观点信心水平进行适当简化后,形成了改进后的Black-Litterman模型。利用我国资本市场上股票、商品和债券三种大类资产数据对改进后的Black-Litterman模型进行实证检验后发现:通过相对信心水平的调节,改进后的Black-Litterman模型能够对市场均衡组合和主观观点组合进行有效的平衡,且相对于其他资产配置组合及单种资产买入持有策略,Black-Litterman组合无论是在风险控制还是收益率上都表现的更为出色。实证结论充分说明了Black-Litterman模型的有效性,同时也从市场均衡组合、主观观点及信心水平三个方向指明了模型改进的方向。     

On the convergence to Walrasian prices in random matching Edgeworthian economies

We show that for a specific class of random matching Edgeworthian economies, the expectation of the limiting equilibrium price coincides with the equilibrium price of the related Walrasian economies. This result extends to the study of economies in the presence of uncertainty within the multi-period Arrow-Debreu model, allowing to understand the dynamics of how beliefs survive and propagate through the market.     

Decentralized job matching

This paper studies a multi-stage decentralized matching model where firms sequentially propose their (unique) positions to workers. At each stage workers sequentially decide which offer to accept (if any). A firm whose offer has been declined may make an offer to another worker in the next stage. The game stops when all firms either have been matched to a worker or have already made unsuccessful offers to any worker remaining in the market. We show that there is a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium outcome, the worker-optimal matching. Firms in this game have a weakly dominant strategy, which consists of making offers in the same order as given by their preferences. When workers play simultaneously any stable matching can be obtained as an equilibrium outcome, but an unstable matching can obtain in equilibrium.     

Robust equilibrium reinsurance-investment strategy for a mean–variance insurer in a model with jumps

This paper analyzes the equilibrium strategy of a robust optimal reinsurance-investment problem under the mean–variance criterion in a model with jumps for an ambiguity-averse insurer (AAI) who worries about model uncertainty. The AAI’s surplus process is assumed to follow the classical Cramér–Lundberg model, and the AAI is allowed to purchase proportional reinsurance or acquire new business and invest in a financial market to manage her risk. The financial market consists of a risk-free asset and a risky asset whose price process is described by a jump-diffusion model. By applying stochastic control theory, we establish the corresponding extended Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB) system of equations. Furthermore, we derive both the robust equilibrium reinsurance-investment strategy and the corresponding equilibrium value function by solving the extended HJB system of equations. In addition, some special cases of our model are provided, which show that our model and results extend some existing ones in the literature. Finally, the economic implications of our findings are illustrated, and utility losses from ignoring model uncertainty, jump risks and prohibiting reinsurance are analyzed using numerical examples.     

A characterization of equilibrium strategies in continuous-time mean–variance problems for insurers

In this work, we study the equilibrium reinsurance/new business and investment strategy for mean–variance insurers with constant risk aversion. The insurers are allowed to purchase proportional reinsurance, acquire new business and invest in a financial market, where the surplus of the insurers is assumed to follow a jump–diffusion model and the financial market consists of one riskless asset and a multiple risky assets whose price processes are driven by Poisson random measures and independent Brownian motions. By using a version of the stochastic maximum principle approach, we characterize the open loop equilibrium strategies via a stochastic system which consists of a flow of forward–backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs in short) and an equilibrium condition. Then by decoupling the flow of FSBDEs, an explicit representation of an equilibrium solution is derived as well as its corresponding objective function value.     

Pricing derivatives in a regime switching market with time inhomogenous volatility

This paper studies pricing derivatives in a componentwise semi-Markov (CSM) modulated market. We consider a financial market where the asset price dynamics follows a regime switching geometric Brownian motion model in which the coefficients depend on finitely many age-dependent semi-Markov processes. We further allow the volatility coefficient to depend on time explicitly. Under these market assumptions, we study locally risk minimizing pricing of a class of European options. It is shown that the price function can be obtained by solving a non-local Black–Scholes–Merton-type PDE. We establish existence and uniqueness of a classical solution to the Cauchy problem. We also find another characterization of price function via a system of Volterra integral equation of second kind. This alternative representation leads to computationally efficient methods for finding price and hedging. An explicit expression of quadratic residual risk is also obtained.     

房地产市场供求均衡与房地产价格研究——以北京商品房市场为例

中国房价上涨幅度较大,研究房地产供求市场及其价格,能把握房地产市场规律,促进房地产市场的平稳健康发展.研究从供求均衡理论角度分析了房地产市场的供求规律及其价格,通过建立商品房市场的供需动态均衡模型,以1990~2010年北京市商品房市场为例,对房地产市场的供求弹性、与长期均衡之间的关系及其对房地产价格的影响进行了实证研究与分析.研究表明房地产供给市场长期略具弹性,而需求市场长期弹性较大,价格对商品房市场的调节作用并不明显,实现房地产市场的供求均衡,需要政府力量的介入并对市场进行宏观调控.     

Time-consistent investment-proportional reinsurance strategy with random coefficients for mean–variance insurers

In this study, we consider an insurer who manages her underlying risk by purchasing proportional reinsurance and investing in a financial market consisting of a risk-free bond and a risky asset. The objective of the insurer is to identify an investment–reinsurance strategy that minimizes the mean–variance cost function. We obtain a time-consistent open-loop equilibrium strategy and the corresponding efficient frontier in explicit form using two systems of backward stochastic differential equations. Furthermore, we apply our results to Vasiček’s stochastic interest rate model and Heston’s stochastic volatility model. In both cases, we obtain a closed-form solution.     

期货市场中持仓量及参与者对资产价格的影响研究

本文通过建立一个期货市场的均衡模型,提出在具有套保需求和有限风险承受能力的前提下,期货价格能够预测未来资产价格变动的方向,持仓量能够辅助预测未来资产价格变动的剧烈程度;此外,市场中不知情投机者具有风险调整市场收益的作用,不知情套保者的参与能够稳定市场。对于持仓量是否能够辅助预测未来资产价格变动的剧烈程度,本文利用中国商品期货市场数据进行了实证检验,结果表明与理论研究的结论一致。     

MARKET FORCES AND DYNAMIC ASSET PRICING

We study a dynamic model of asset pricing which is driven by two characteristic market features: the law of investor demand (e.g., “buy low, sell high”) and the law of the market institution (which codifies the trading rules under which the market operates). We demonstrate in a simple investor–specialist trading market that these features are sufficient to guarantee an equilibrium where investors' trading strategies and the specialist's rule of price adjustments are best responses to each other. The drift term appearing in the resulting equation of the asset price process may be interpreted using Newtonian mechanics as the acceleration of a “market force.” If either of the market participants is risk-neutral, the result leads to risk-neutral asset pricing (e.g., the Black and Scholes option pricing formula).     

ST摘帽如何影响公司价值和股价

以2004~2015年的ST公司为研究样本,利用事件研究法和双重差分模型,研究了ST摘帽对公司价值和股价的影响效应。实证结果表明,摘帽公告可以引起显著为正的累计超额收益率。而且,摘帽的部分信息含量可以被市场提前预期到,并立即反应到股价上。因此,仅从摘帽信息的股价反应速度看,我国的股票市场是半强式有效市场。此外,双重差分的实证结果显示,ST摘帽对公司价值没有显著的影响。但是,具体而言,摘帽事件可以同时显著地提高公司的市值和账面价值。这些结果都基本符合ST制度的政策预期。为了缓解内生性问题,在考虑控制变量的影响和倾向值匹配后,双重差分的实证结果是稳健的。     

基于委托-代理理论的逆向物流外包模式研究

基于委托-代理模型确立了不同的委托-代理组合.实证分析表明,组合不仅可以较好的解释和说明当前国内外几种典型逆向物流外包实践的特点、实施效果及问题,还能据此确定合理的外包发展模式.     

Time-consistent reinsurance and investment strategies for mean–variance insurer under partial information

In this paper, based on equilibrium control law proposed by Björk and Murgoci (2010), we study an optimal investment and reinsurance problem under partial information for insurer with mean–variance utility, where insurer’s risk aversion varies over time. Instead of treating this time-inconsistent problem as pre-committed, we aim to find time-consistent equilibrium strategy within a game theoretic framework. In particular, proportional reinsurance, acquiring new business, investing in financial market are available in the market. The surplus process of insurer is depicted by classical Lundberg model, and the financial market consists of one risk free asset and one risky asset with unobservable Markov-modulated regime switching drift process. By using reduction technique and solving a generalized extended HJB equation, we derive closed-form time-consistent investment–reinsurance strategy and corresponding value function. Moreover, we compare results under partial information with optimal investment–reinsurance strategy when Markov chain is observable. Finally, some numerical illustrations and sensitivity analysis are provided.     

Modelling advertising budgeting and allocation decisions using modified multinomial logit market share models

Previous research suggests that a multinomial logit model of market share (MNL) is inappropriate for equilibrium analyses of advertising competition. This article shows that when employing simple transformations of the advertising effort, the modified MNL model becomes useful in representing situations of diminishing returns to advertising and appropriate for advertising equilibrium analyses without additional difficulties in its empirical estimation. Using the modified MNL model, optimal advertising budgets together with their allocation over time are derived for both the cases of concave and S-shaped attraction (response) functions in a symmetric oligopoly.     

Nash equilibrium strategies for a defined contribution pension management

This paper studies the time-consistent investment strategy for a defined contribution (DC) pension plan under the mean–variance criterion. Since the time horizon of a pension fund management problem is relatively long, two background risks are taken into account: the inflation risk and the salary risk. Meanwhile, there are a risk-free asset, a stock and an inflation-indexed bond available in the financial market. The extended Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman (HJB for short) equation of the equilibrium value function and the verification theorem corresponding to our problem are presented. The closed-form time-consistent investment strategy and the equilibrium efficient frontier are obtained by stochastic control technique. The effects of the inflation and stochastic income on the equilibrium strategy and the equilibrium efficient frontier are illustrated by mathematical and numerical analysis. Finally, we compare in detail the time-consistent results in our paper with the pre-commitment one and find the distinct properties of these two results.     

非对称信息证券交易的跨期动态博弈均衡解析

揭示了不对称信息条件下证券市场均衡的基本特征.Grossman和Stiglitz模型依据不知情交易者的弱理性,解析了证券交易的静态均衡状态.O'Hara模型增强了不知情交易者的理性,强调了市场均衡时的风险定价,但其命题的成立条件是相互矛盾的.认为不知情交易者信息收集和处理能力的提高会使决策更为理性,证券市场的均衡本质上是交易者的动态博弈均衡.依此思路,运用不完美信息的跨期动态博弈模型解析了非对称信息条件下证券交易者的精炼贝叶斯纳什均衡.结论显示出,市场失效的主要原因是交易者之间的信息分析能力不平衡,而不是信息不对称;市场流动性的决定因素不是信息不对称风险而是知情交易者与不知情交易者所研判的无风险收益率的差别.     

Modeling short‐term post‐offering price–volume relationships using Bayesian change‐point panel quantile regression

We propose a special panel quantile regression model with multiple stochastic change‐points to analyze latent structural breaks in the short‐term post‐offering price–volume relationships in China's growth enterprise market where the piecewise quantile equations are defined by change point indication functions. We also develop a new Bayesian inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation approach to estimate the parameters, including the locations of change points, and put forth simulation‐based posterior Bayesian factor tests to find the best number of change points. Our empirical evidence suggests that the single change point effect is significant on quantile‐based price–volume relationships in China's growth enterprise market. The lagged initial public offering (IPO) return and the IPO volume rate of change have positive impacts on the current IPO return before and after the change point. Along with investors' gradually declining hot sentiment toward a new IPO, the market index volume rate of change induces the abnormal short‐term post‐offering IPO return to move back to the equilibrium. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Measuring the coupled risks: A copula-based CVaR model

Integrated risk management for financial institutions requires an approach for aggregating risk types (such as market and credit) whose distributional shapes vary considerably. The financial institutions often ignore risks’ coupling influence so as to underestimate the financial risks. We constructed a copula-based Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) model for market and credit risks. This technique allows us to incorporate realistic marginal distributions that capture essential empirical features of these risks, such as skewness and fat-tails while allowing for a rich dependence structure. Finally, the numerical simulation method is used to implement the model. Our results indicate that the coupled risks for the listed company’s stock maybe are undervalued if credit risk is ignored, especially for the listed company with bad credit quality.     

On managerial risk-taking incentives when compensation may be hedged against

We consider a continuous time principal-agent model where the principal/firm compensates an agent/manager who controls the output’s exposure to risk and its expected return. Both the firm and the manager have exponential utility and can trade in a frictionless market. When the firm observes the manager’s choice of effort and volatility, there is an optimal contract that induces the manager to not hedge. In a two factor specification of the model where an index and a bond are traded, the optimal contract is linear in output and the log return of the index. We also consider a manager who receives exogenous share or option compensation and illustrate how risk taking depends on the relative size of the systematic and firm-specific risk premia of the output and index. Whilst in most cases, options induce greater risk taking than shares, we find that there are also situations under which the hedging manager may take less risk than the non-hedging manager.