This paper models the incentive misalignment between firm owners and their employees as a barrier to technology diffusion, which is a critical yet understudied feature, in technology adoption settings. To do so, we consider a general continuous-time optimal stopping framework with the...

This paper proposes a mutually exciting discrete-time stochastic model to capture two essential features underlying the bank-customer behavior process---the dependence on the past behavior (i.e., path-dependence) and the behavioral interdependence between deposit and withdrawal activities (i.e.,...

One popular approach to model the limit order books dynamics of the best bid and ask at level-1 is to use the reduced-form diffusion approximations. It is well known that the biggest contributing factor to the price movement is the imbalance of the best bid and ask. We investigate the data of...

Dual risk models are popular for modeling a venture capital or high tech company, for which the running cost is deterministic and the profits arrive stochastically over time. Most of the existing literature on dual risk models concentrated on the optimal dividend strategies. In this paper, we...