Category Archives: Working Papers
The Impact of Hazardous Industrial Facilities on Housing Prices: A Comparison of Parametric and Semiparametric Hedonic Price Models
by Céline Grislain-Letrémy & Arthur Katossky The willingness of households to pay for prevention against industrial risks can be revealed by real estate markets. By using very rich microdata, we study housing prices in the vicinity of hazardous industries near three … Continue reading
La comptabilité des émissions de carbone par enjeux – Définition, justification et comparaison avec les modèles existants
by Antoine Rose Les initiatives de comptabilité des émissions de carbone se sont multipliées au cours des dernières années, à mesure que la problématique du changement climatique s’est imposée. Pour chaque agent économique, la problématique climatique se traduit par des … Continue reading
Natural Disasters: Exposure and Underinsurance
by Céline Grislain-Letrémy Insurance coverage for natural disasters remains low in many exposed areas. A limited supply of insurance is commonly identified as a primary causal factor in this low insurance coverage. The French overseas departments provide a rare natural … Continue reading
A new class of problems in the calculus of variations
by Ivar Ekeland, Yiming Long & Qinglong Zhou In economic theory, and in optimal control, it has been customary to discount future gains at a constant rate δ > 0 (…). That future gains should be discounted is well grounded … Continue reading
Faisabilité de l’apprentissage des paramètres d’un algorithme de trading sur des données réelles
par Sophie Laruelle Considérons qu’un trader ou un algorithme de trading interagissant avec les marchés durant les enchères continues puisse être modélisé par une procédure itérative ajustant le prix auquel il poste ses ordres à un rythme donné, (Laruelle, Lehalle … Continue reading
Efficiency of the Price Formation Process in Presence of High Frequency Participants: a Mean Field Game analysis
by Aimé Lachapelle, Jean-Michel Lasry, Charles-Albert Lehalle & Pierre-Louis Lions This paper deals with a stochastic order-driven market model with waiting costs, for order books with heterogeneous traders. Offer and demand of liquidity drive price formation and traders anticipate future … Continue reading
Skin in the Game and Moral Hazard
by Gilles Chemla & Christopher A. Hennessy What determines equilibrium securitization levels, and should they be regulated? To address these questions we develop a model where originators can exert unobservable effort to increase asset quality, subsequently having private information regarding … Continue reading
Stratégie optimale de stockage de déchets radioactifs à vie longue sous contrainte de capacité
by Bertrand Villeneuve L’article modélise un programme de gestion de déchets nucléaires à haute activité. La physique du refroidissement permet d’entreposer un certain temps un colis chaud afin d’économiser le volume de stockage définitif : en effet, les colis plus … Continue reading
A simple equilibrium model for a commodity market with spot trades and futures contracts
by Ivar Ekeland, Delphine Lautier & Bertrand Villeneuve We propose a simple model which offers a unified theoretical framework for the analysis of price and quantity relationships in commodity markets. We study the simultaneous equilibrium in the physical and futures … Continue reading
Optimal selling rules for monetary invariant criteria: tracking the maximum of a portfolio with negative drift
by Romuald ELIE & Gilles-Edouard ESPINOSA Considering a positive portfolio diffusion X with negative drift, we investigate optimal stopping problems of the form (…) This paper unifies optimal selling rules observed by [5] for quadratic absolute distance criteria with bang-bang … Continue reading
Exact replication under Delta constraints
by Jean-François Chassagneux, Romuald Elie & Idris Kharroubi This paper deals with the super-replication of non path-dependent European claims under additional convex constraints on the number of shares held in the portfolio. The corresponding super-replication price of a given claim … Continue reading
Economic growth and sustainable development: how should we discount the future?
by Qinglong Zhou, Ivar Ekeland, Yiming Long In 1987, the Brundtland Commission famously defined sustainable development as “developmentthat meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future”. This paper is concerned with translating this definition in the … Continue reading
The Flood Issue: Uniform Insurance and Collective Prevention with Risk Externalities
by Céline Grislain-Letrémy & Sabine Lemoyne de Forges Prevention policies against flood, such as dams or levees, are commonly designed by local jurisdictions and for most they exert externalities on neighboring jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction chooses its collective prevention effort depending … Continue reading
Systemic Risk in Energy Derivative Markets: A Graph-Theory Analysis
. by Delphine Lautier & Franck Raynaud This article uses graph theory to provide novel evidence regarding market integration, a favorable condition for systemic risk tio appear in. Relying on daily futures returns covering a 12-year period, we examine cross- … Continue reading
Risk-Parameter Estimation in Volatility Models
. by Christian Franck & Jean-Michel Zakoïan This paper introduces the concept of risk parameter in conditional volatility models of the form ǫt = σt(θ0)ηt and develops statistical procedures to estimate this parameter. For a given risk measure r, the risk parameter is expressed … Continue reading
Ecological intuition versus Economic “reason”
by Olivier Guéant, Roger Guesnerie & Jean-Michel Lasry This article discusses the discount rate to be used in projects that aimed at preserving the environment. The model has two di§erent goods, one is the usual consumption good whose production may … Continue reading
A note on super-hedging for investor-producers
by Adrien Nguyen Huu We study the situation of an investor-producer who can trade on a financial market in continuous time and can transform some assets into others by means of a discrete time production system, in order to price … Continue reading
Natural and Industrial Disasters: Land Use and Insurance
by Céline Grislain-Letrémy & Bertrand Villeneuve Uncontrolled urbanization in exposed areas increases the cost of natural and industrial disas- ters. In the case of industrial risks, these land use externalities are directly exerted on the firm which is liable for … Continue reading
Optimal Portfolio Liquidation with Limit Orders
by Olivier Guéant, Charles-Albert Lehalle & Joaquin Fernandez Tapia 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 in [2], or … Continue reading
Dealing with the Inventory Risk
by Olivier Guéant, Charles-Albert Lehalle & Joaquin Fernandez Tapia Market makers have to continuously set bid and ask quotes for the stocks they have under consideration. Hence they face a complex optimization problem in which their return, based on the bid-ask … Continue reading