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In this paper, we study optimal liquidation problems in a randomly-terminated horizon. We consider the liquidation of a large single-asset portfolio with the aim of minimizing a combination of volatility risk and transaction costs arising…

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This paper studies the optimal liquidation of stocks in the presence of temporary and permanent price impacts, and we focus in the case of cryptocurrencies. We start by presenting analytical solutions to the problem with linear temporary…

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We study the economic viability of liquidity provision in decentralised exchanges (DEXs) within a structural framework in which market outcomes are endogenous. We formulate strategic interactions as a sequential game: a risk-averse…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-05 Fayçal Drissi , Xuchen Wu , Sebastian Jaimungal

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has reshaped the possibilities of reserve banking in the form of the Collateralized Debt Position (CDP). Key to the safety of CDPs is the money supply architecture that enables issued debt to maintain its value.…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-19 Yuval Boneh

In this paper, we consider the optimal portfolio liquidation problem under the dynamic mean-variance criterion and derive time-consistent solutions in three important models. We give adapted optimal strategies under a reconsidered…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2015-11-02 Jia-Wen Gu , Mogens Steffensen

An agent holds a position in a perpetual contract with payoff function $\psi$ and attempts to liquidate the position while managing transaction costs, inventory risk, and funding rate payments. By solving the agent's stochastic control…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-19 Ryan Donnelly , Junhan Lin , Matthew Lorig

Lending protocols are one of the main applications of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), enabling crypto-assets loan markets with a total value estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. Unlike traditional lending systems, these protocols…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Massimo Bartoletti , Enrico Lipparini

In this paper, we generalize the Almgren-Chriss's market impact model to a more realistic and flexible framework and employ it to derive and analyze some aspects of optimal liquidation problem in a security market. We illustrate how a…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2017-08-07 Qing-Qing Yang , Wai-Ki Ching , Jia-Wen Gu , Tak-Kuen Siu

The classical literature on optimal liquidation, rooted in Almgren-Chriss models, tackles the optimal liquidation problem using a trade-off between market impact and price risk. Therefore, it only answers the general question of the optimal…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2013-06-18 Olivier Guéant , Charles-Albert Lehalle

Financial markets are undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Technological advances have brought major improvements to the operations of financial services. While these advances promote improved accessibility and convenience,…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2023-12-05 Agostino Capponi , Garud Iyengar , Jay Sethuraman

This paper presents an optimal strategy for portfolio liquidation under discrete time conditions. We assume that N risky assets held will be liquidated according to the same time interval and order quantity, and the basic price processes of…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-30 Qixuan Luo , Yu Shi , Handong Li

Auto-deleveraging (ADL) mechanisms are a critical yet understudied component of risk management on cryptocurrency futures exchanges. When available margin and other loss-absorbing resources are insufficient to cover losses following large…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-18 Steven Campbell , Natascha Hey , Ciamac C. Moallemi , Marcel Nutz

This paper addresses the optimal scheduling of the liquidation of a portfolio using a new angle. Instead of focusing only on the scheduling aspect like Almgren and Chriss, or only on the liquidity-consuming orders like Obizhaeva and Wang,…

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Three traits of decentralized finance are studied. First, the market impact function is derived for optimal-growth liquidity providers. For a standard random walk, the classic square-root impact is recovered. An extension is then derived to…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-19 B. K. Meister

We consider a broker who has to place a large order which consumes a sizable part of average daily trading volume. The broker's aim is thus to minimize execution costs he incurs from the adverse impact of his trades on market prices. By…

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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocols like Aave v3 rely on over-collateralization to secure loans, yet users frequently face liquidation due to volatile market conditions. Existing risk management tools utilize static health-factor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fernando Spadea , Oshani Seneviratne

Decentralised exchanges (DEXs) have transformed trading by enabling trustless, permissionless transactions, yet they face significant challenges such as impermanent loss and slippage, which undermine profitability for liquidity providers…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-04-10 Oliver Tronn Scott-Simons , Chris Colman , FrostByte

In this work we study a finite horizon optimal liquidation problem with multiplicative price impact in algorithmic trading, using market orders. We analyze the case when an agent is trading on a market with two financial assets, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Riccardo Cesari , Harry Zheng

We develop a mathematical framework to optimize leveraged staking ("loopy") strategies in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in which a staked asset is supplied as collateral, the underlying is borrowed and re-staked, and the loop can be…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-21 Bastien Baude , Vincent Danos , Hamza El Khalloufi

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is increasingly studied and adopted for its potential to provide accessible and transparent financial services. Analyzing how investors use DeFi is important for reaching a better understanding of their usage…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Natkamon Tovanich , Célestin Coquidé , Rémy Cazabet