This study investigates the pricing of electricity futures at the European Energy Exchange (EEX) over the period 2002 through 2004. To calculate theoretical contract values, the reduced‐form models of J. J. Lucia and E. S. Schwartz (2002) are used, and a thorough empirical analysis by means of...

This note addresses the properties of mean-reverting stochastic processes of the Black-Karasinski type with additional stochastic jumps. For these processes, which are well suited for many financial applications such as the modelling of commodity prices and credit spreads, one would usually like...

Machine learning and its numerous variants have meanwhile become established tools in many areas of society. Several attempts have been made to apply machine learning to the prediction of the outcome of professional sports events and to exploit "inefficiencies" in the corresponding betting...

Quantum computing allows a significant speed-up over traditional CPU- and GPU-based algorithms when applied to particular mathematical challenges such as optimisation and simulation. Despite promising advances and extensive research in hard- and software developments, currently available quantum...