Megan Shearer defends dissertation
On June 27, 2022, Megan Shearer successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning."
Congratulations, Dr. Shearer! We wish you a bright…
Stability Effects of Arbitrage in Exchange Traded Funds: An Agent-Based Model
M Shearer, D Byrd, TH Balch, and MP Wellman
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 49, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
An index-based exchange traded fund (ETF) with underlying securities that trade on…
Timing is Money: The Impact of Arrival Order in Beta-Bernoulli Prediction Markets
B Martin, S Kutty, and M Chakraborty
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 41, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
Prediction markets are incentive-based mechanisms for eliciting and combining the diffused,…
An Agent-Based Model of Strategic Adoption of Real-Time Payments
K Mayo, S Fozdar, and MP Wellman
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 45, pages 1–9, November 2021.
Abstract
Real-time payments (RTPs) allow consumers to receive funds before the completion of payment…
Designing a Combinatorial Financial Options Market
X Wang, DM Pennock, NR Devanur, DM Rothschild, B Tao, and MP Wellman
22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), pages 864-883, July 2021.
Abstract
Financial options are contracts that specify the right to buy or sell an underlying…
Megan Shearer defends thesis proposal
On June 1 2021, Megan Shearer presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning".
The dissertation committee comprises:
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Log-time Prediction Markets for Interval Securities
M Dudík, X Wang, D Pennock, and D Rothschild
20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 465-473, May 2021.
Abstract
We design a prediction market to recover a complete and fully general probability…
A Strategic Analysis of Portfolio Compression
K Mayo and MP Wellman
2nd ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Article No.: 20, pages 1–8, November 2021.
Extended abstract appeared in 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS),…
Multiagent Modeling of the Financial Payments System
Researchers
Principal Investigators
Michael Wellman (Computer Science & Engineering)
Michael S. Barr (Public Policy, Law)
Uday Rajan (Finance)
Gabriel Rauterberg (Law)
Students
Katherine Mayo
Shaily Fozdar
This…