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CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 7 months ago
A Unifying Framework for Linearly Solvable Control
Recent work has led to the development of an elegant theory of Linearly Solvable Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs) and related Path-Integral Control Problems. Traditionally, LMDPs...
Krishnamurthy Dvijotham, Emanuel Todorov
SIAMFM
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Robust Hedging of Double Touch Barrier Options
We consider model-free pricing of digital options, which pay out if the underlying asset has crossed both upper and lower barriers. We make only weak assumptions about the underly...
A. M. G. Cox, Jan Obloj
MAGS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Designing bidding strategies in sequential auctions for risk averse agents
Designing efficient bidding strategies for sequential auctions remains an important, open problem area in agent-mediated electronic markets. In existing literature, a variety of bi...
Valentin Robu, Han La Poutré
ISCI
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Relative risk aversion and wealth dynamics
As a follow-up to the work of [4] and [5], this paper continues to explore the relationship between wealth share dynamics and risk preferences in the context of an agent-based mul...
Shu-Heng Chen, Ya-Chi Huang
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Risk Minimization and Optimal Derivative Design in a Principal Agent Game
We consider the problem of Adverse Selection and optimal derivative design within a Principal-Agent framework. The principal’s income is exposed to non-hedgeable risk factors ar...
U. Horst, S. Moreno
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Risk aversion min-period retiming under process variations
— Recent advances in statistical timing analysis (SSTA) achieve great success in computing arrival times under variations by extending sum and maximum operations to random variab...
Jia Wang, Hai Zhou
ALDT
2009
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
Insuring Risk-Averse Agents
Abstract. In this paper we explicitly model risk aversion in multiagent interactions. We propose an insurance mechanism that be can used by risk-averse agents to mitigate against r...
Greg Hines, Kate Larson