Short-time behaviour of demand and price viewed through an exactly solvable model for heterogeneous interacting market agents

We introduce a stochastic heterogeneous interacting-agent model for the short-time non-equilibrium evolution of excess demand and price in a stylized asset market. We consider a combination of social interaction within peer groups and individually heterogeneous fundamentalist trading decisions which take into account the market price and the perceived fundamental value of the asset. The resulting excess demand is coupled to the market price. Rigorous analysis reveals that this feedback may lead to price oscillations, a single bounce, or monotonic price behaviour. The model is a rare example of an analytically tractable interacting-agent model which allows us to deduce in detail the origin of these different collective patterns. For a natural choice of initial distribution, the results are independent of the graph structure that models the peer network of agents whose decisions influence each other.     

Stochastic Correlation and Volatility Mean-reversion – Empirical Motivation and Derivatives Pricing via Perturbation Theory

Abstract

The dependence structure is crucial when modelling several assets simultaneously. We show for a real-data example that the correlation structure between assets is not constant over time but rather changes stochastically, and we propose a multidimensional asset model which fits the patterns found in the empirical data. The model is applied to price multi-asset derivatives by means of perturbation theory. It turns out that the leading term of the approximation corresponds to the Black–Scholes derivative price with correction terms adjusting for stochastic volatility and stochastic correlation effects. The practicability of the presented method is illustrated by some numerical implementations. Furthermore, we propose a calibration methodology for the considered model.     

金融摩擦、资本配置与资产泡沫的演化机理——基于微观群体行为的演化博弈分析

构建企业家和贷款人的非对称演化搏弈模型,分析金融摩擦约束下代理人群体决策与资产泡沫的联系,探索资产泡沫产生的微观机理。研究发现:金融摩擦对代理人群体的影响是异质的,但都会导致资本配置扭曲;资产泡沫产生是代理人在金融摩擦冲击下,个体短期非理性在羊群效应和传染效应作用下引致的群体非理性;贷款人对资本高租金追求是资本泡沫产生的根源,但企业家为资产泡沫膨胀提供了资本支持;资产泡沫产生源于经济个体的最大化目标与宏观经济发展目标的背离。金融摩擦为资产泡沫产生提供了外生条件,切断资产泡沫产生路径的有效方式是提高金融市场效率和完善金融市场功能。     

循环效应及其在能源消耗与经济增长关系中的实证分析

一些变量相互影响,在相互作用过程中可能形成循环效应,已有研究表明能源消耗与经济增长呈正相关或存在双向因果关系;现做进一步深入研究,目的是研究能源消耗与经济增长之间的相互作用路径,即循环效应.包括技术进步在此循环过程中的中介效应,固定资产投资在此循环过程中的调节作用;采用二阶最小二乘(2LS)算法进行模型估计.采集1990-2012年数据,进行循环过程中的中介效应检验和有中介的调节效应检验.实证表明能源消耗和经济增长之间存在循环效应,技术进步在能源消耗和经济增长之间起循环的中介作用;固定资产投资在能源消耗引起经济增长过程中的调节作用部分地通过技术进步发挥作用,在经济增长引起能源消耗过程中的调节作用完全地通过技术进步发挥作用.     

审计委员会的设立与公司治理——基于审计收费的实证研究

采用非参数检验方法和回归分析方法,本文从审计费用率视角研究了审计委员会的设立对上市公司治理的影响。本文发现,在设立审计委员会的样本和未设立审计委员会的样本之间,董事会的规模和独立性、独立董事规模和报酬存在显著差异,且这些变量及独立董事规模、审计任期与审计费用率的相关性不同。结果表明,审计委员会在加强独立董事责任和董事会、外部审计师独立性的同时,也改善了公司内部控制系统,但整体上并没有改变审计师的任期。     

Pricing early exercise contracts in incomplete markets

We present a utility-based methodology for the valuation of early exercise contracts in incomplete markets. Incompleteness stems from nontraded assets on which the contracts are written. This methodology takes into account the individuals attitude towards risk and yields nonlinear pricing rules. The early exercise indifference prices solve a quasilinear variational inequality with an obstacle term. They are also shown to satisfy an optimal stopping problem with criterion given by their European indifference price counterpart. A class of numerical schemes are developed for the variational inequalities and a general approach for solving numerically nonlinear equations arising in incomplete markets is discussed.Accepted: May 2003, AMS Classification: 93E20, 60G40, 60J75The second author acknowledges partial support from NSF Grants DMS 0102909 and DMS 0091946.     

具有一般效用函数与允许卖空的资本市场中均衡价格向量的存在性与唯一性

对有有限多个其效用函数为一般凹函数的投资者参与的资本市场，在假设风险资产收益的联合分布为椭圆分布之下，通过考虑期望效用最大化问题，我们导出了使市场出清的均衡价格向量存在唯一的条件及其计算公式，并简要讨论了所给条件的经济意义，所得结果推广了有关资产市场均衡分析的某些结果。     

有跳风险的随机利率与动态资产分配

在股票服从跳扩散模型及利率满足有随机跳的均值回复过程的不完全市场下,讨论了股票,债券和银行存款的组合选择投资问题.应用动态规划建立了终期财富效用期望最大化目标函数对应的H JB方程,并给出了投资策略的表达式,最后通过数值计算分析了投资策略与风险回避参数γ,跳到达强度参数λ等关系.     

Modeling financial asset returns with shot noise processes

We introduce a new class of continuous time processes for modeling the rate of returns of financial assets. The statistical characterization is based on the so-called shot noise processes. The probabilistic structure of the shot noise process provides a very realistic framework for asset returns modeling of the stock price processes. Our class of processes exhibits the natural phenomena well known in empirical financial studies:

1. (a) fat-tail distribution function for the asset returns,

2. (b) dependence of the returns,

3. (c) nonstationarity in time.

Financial asset returns in new emerging markets such as those of Eastern European countries exhibit a highly volatile behavior. Statistical investigations of the unconditional distribution of returns of stocks, commodities, exchange rates, etc., show extremely heavy tails and steep peaks around the expectation. We use a class of shot noise processes with Poissonian times and Brownian magnitudes for modeling this phenomenon.     

基于异质交易者定价模型的资产价格泡沫内生机理研究

资产价格泡沫等市场异常现象使得有效市场假说理论受到质疑,研究者们更多的是从行为金融学的角度对这些现象进行解释,认为是由市场投资者的非理性因素所造成的。本文考虑了市场中投资者决策的异质性,构建了含有长期基础投资者和短期技术投资者的异质交易模型,以说明在投资者均具有理性预期的条件下,有效市场假说理论同样可以解释泡沫的产生。具体而言,技术投资者的交易行为使价格产生波动,基础投资者的存在则对波动起到放大作用,并会进一步导致泡沫的出现,随着基础投资者所占的比例增大,泡沫膨胀的速度加快,由此导致市场的波动越剧烈。研究结果为市场监管者提供了有益的启示:与其设置壁垒限制技术投资者的加入及交易活动,不如让越来越多的技术投资者加入到市场中来,这样更有益于市场的稳定。