We use proprietary futures brokerage data with intraday time stamps to analyze how embedded derivatives leverage affects trading and performance in the cross-section of investors. The effect is heterogeneous: Skilled investors benefit from leverage, while leverage has the opposite impact on the...

We propose a tractable model for the exchange rate in a target zone with realignment. The target zone exchange rate dynamics is assumed to obey a bounded regular diffusion with two-sided unattainable barriers. The realignment is modeled as a continuous-time two-state Markov chain. Under the...

We examine the notion that financial products which cater to investors' behavioral biases can attain popularity and yield substantial profits for issuers. Our setting considers options with a callback feature, namely, callable bull/bear contracts (CBBCs). These contracts have high skewness when...

Reflected Brownian motion has been played an important role in economics, finance, queueing and many other fields. In this paper, we present the explicit spectral representation for the hitting time density of the reflected Brownian motion with two-sided barriers, and give some detailed analysis...

We use proprietary brokerage data to study trading patterns within a well-known financial market bubble: that in the Chinese warrants market. Persistently successful investors traded very actively and exhibited characteristics of de facto market makers. Unskilled investors unprofitably...

The extant literature on first passage problems of reflected hyper-exponential jump diffusion processes (RHEPs) lacks efficiently computable formulae for the Laplace transform of the joint distribution of the RHEP and its first passage time, cumulative distribution function of the overshoot,...

This article introduces dynamic models for the spot foreign exchange rate with capturing both the rare events and the time-inhomogeneity in the fluctuating currency market. For the rare events, we use a compound Poisson process with log-normal jump amplitude to describe the jumps. As for the...

We study the cost of shocks, i.e., jump risk, with respect to reserve management when the reserve process is formulated as a drift switching jump-diffusion with a reflecting barrier at 0. Inspired by the Brownian drift switching model, our model results in a more realistic dynamic behavior of...

Based on the case study method, this paper carries out detailed investigation and in-depth analysis of the implementation process of improving the group financial strategy execution power in IT environment in China Electronics Information Industry Group (the CEC Group, for short) and constructs...

Exciplex has long been recognized as a mixture of donor and acceptor components. Here, for the first time, it was demonstrated that exciplex emission can also be achieved by single pure molecule, we named it as homojunction exciplex (ho-exciplex). By using the flexible alkyl chain to link the...