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A platform commits to a search algorithm that maps prices to search order. Given this algorithm, sellers set prices, and consumers engage in sequential search. This framework generalizes the ordered search literature. We introduce a special…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-03-06 Xiaoyu Chen , Jingmin Huang , Yibo Lian

It has been assumed that arbitrage profits are not possible in efficient markets, because future prices are not predictable. Here we show that predictability alone is not a sufficient measure of market efficiency. We instead propose to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Rothenstein , K. Pawelzik

We investigate the well-posedness in the Hadamard sense and the absence of price manipulation in the optimal execution problem within the Almgren-Chriss framework, where the temporary and permanent impact parameters vary deterministically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Gianluca Palmari , Fabrizio Lillo , Zoltan Eisler

We study an optimal execution problem in the infinite horizon setup. Our financial market is given by the Black-Scholes model with a linear price impact. The main novelty of the current note is that we study the constrained case where the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-11-20 Yan Dolinsky

This paper develops learning-augmented algorithms for energy trading in volatile electricity markets. The basic problem is to sell (or buy) $k$ units of energy for the highest revenue (lowest cost) over uncertain time-varying prices, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Russell Lee , Bo Sun , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , John C. S. Lui

Motivated by optimal execution with stochastic signals, market impact and constraints in financial markets, and optimal storage management in commodity markets, we formulate and solve an optimal trading problem with a general propagator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Nathan De Carvalho , Huyên Pham

We introduce a new approach for the numerical pricing of American options. The main idea is to choose a finite number of suitable excessive functions (randomly) and to find the smallest majorant of the gain function in the span of these…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 Sören Christensen

We study optimal buying and selling strategies in target zone models. In these models the price is modeled by a diffusion process which is reflected at one or more barriers. Such models arise for example when a currency exchange rate is…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-07-08 Eyal Neuman , Alexander Schied

We analyze the efficiency of markets with friction, particularly power markets. We model the market as a dynamic system with $(d_t;\,t\geq 0)$ the demand process and $(s_t;\,t\geq 0)$ the supply process. Using stochastic differential…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2011-09-19 Arman C. Kizilkale , Shie Mannor

Motivated by recent advances in the spectral theory of auto-covariance matrices, we are led to revisit a reformulation of Markowitz' mean-variance portfolio optimization approach in the time domain. In its simplest incarnation it applies to…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-06-22 Peter A. Bebbington , Reimer Kuehn

We study $N$-player optimal execution games in an Obizhaeva--Wang model of transient price impact. When the game is regularized by an instantaneous cost on the trading rate, a unique equilibrium exists and we derive its closed form. Whereas…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-19 Steven Campbell , Marcel Nutz

We consider the problem of supply and demand balancing that is stated as a minimization problem for the total expected revenue function describing the behavior of both consumers and suppliers. In the considered market model we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Pavel Dvurechensky , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Gasnikov

We consider the problem of planning the aggregate energy consumption for a set of thermostatically controlled loads for demand response, accounting price forecast trajectory and thermal comfort constraints. We address this as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Fernando A. C. C. Fontes , Abhishek Halder , Jorge Becerril , P. R. Kumar

In this short note, we consider mean-variance optimized portfolios with transaction costs. We show that introducing quadratic transaction costs makes the optimization problem more difficult than using linear transaction costs. The reason…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-01-07 Pierre Chen , Edmond Lezmi , Thierry Roncalli , Jiali Xu

We consider a class of optimal liquidation problems where the agent's transactions create transient price impact driven by a Volterra-type propagator along with temporary price impact. We formulate these problems as maximization of a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-17 Eduardo Abi Jaber , Eyal Neuman

Portfolio managers' orders trade off return and trading cost predictions. Return predictions rely on alpha models, whereas price impact models quantify trading costs. This paper studies what happens when trades are based on an incorrect…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-06-02 Natascha Hey , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Iacopo Mastromatteo , Johannes Muhle-Karbe , Kevin Webster

We study several optimal stopping problems that arise from trading a mean-reverting price spread over a finite horizon. Modeling the spread by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, we analyze three different trading strategies: (i) the long-short…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-12 Tim Leung , Yerkin Kitapbayev

We devise an optimal allocation strategy for the execution of a predefined number of stocks in a given time frame using the technique of discrete-time Stochastic Control Theory for a defined market model. This market structure allows an…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-09-25 Akshay Bansal , Diganta Mukherjee

We study optimal trade execution strategies in financial markets with discrete order flow. The agent has a finite liquidation horizon and must minimize price impact given a random number of incoming trade counterparties. Assuming that the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2012-05-07 Erhan Bayraktar , Mike Ludkovski

We study an optimal execution problem in a continuous-time market model that considers market impact. We formulate the problem as a stochastic control problem and investigate properties of the corresponding value function. We find that…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2014-12-16 Takashi Kato