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Alex S. L. Tse

University College London

Gower Street

London, London WC1E 6BT

United Kingdom

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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Optimal Option Market Making and Volatility Arbitrage

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2024
Vladimir Lucic and Alex S. L. Tse
Imperial College London and University College London
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Market making, algorithmic trading, options, volatility arbitrage, Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation

Liquidation, Bailout, and Bail-in: Insolvency Resolution Mechanisms and Bank Lending

Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 26 May 2021
Bart M. Lambrecht and Alex S. L. Tse
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University College London
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Liquidation, bailout, bail-in, asset sale, agency

Liquidation, Bailout, and Bail-In: Insolvency Resolution Mechanisms and Bank Lending

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13734
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 22 May 2019
Bart M. Lambrecht and Alex S. L. Tse
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University College London
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agency, asset sale, bail-in, bailout, Liquidation

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Probability Weighting, Stop-Loss and the Disposition Effect

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2017
Vicky Henderson, David Hobson and Alex S. L. Tse
University of Warwick, University of Warwick and University College London
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Prospect theory, behavioral finance, disposition effect, investor trading behavior, probability weighting.

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Randomized Strategies and Prospect Theory in a Dynamic Context

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 29 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2017
Vicky Henderson, David Hobson and Alex S. L. Tse
University of Warwick, University of Warwick and University College London
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Behavioral economics, prospect theory, probability weighting, randomized strategies

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Portfolio Selection, Periodic Evaluations and Risk Taking

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
Alex S. L. Tse and Harry Zheng
University College London and Imperial College London - Mathematical Finance
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Portfolio selection, S-shaped utility, periodic evaluation, agency, incentive

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The (Non-)Equivalence of Dividends and Share Buybacks

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2025
Imperial College London, Imperial College London - Department of Mathematics and University College London
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Dividends, share buybacks, equilibrium

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FX Open Forward

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jan 2024
J Hok and Alex S. L. Tse
Investec Bank and University College London
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FX Open Forward, American derivative, optimal stopping, free-boundary problem JEL classification: D81, F31, G12

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Portfolio Selection in Contests

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2025
Yumin Lu and Alex S. L. Tse
University College London and University College London
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Portfolio selection, contests, relative performance, Nash equilibrium, constant-sum game, martingale duality, reward design. JEL Classification: C72, C73, D81, G11

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Optimal Option Market Making Under Market Impact

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Oct 2025
Francois Buet-Golfouse and Alex S. L. Tse
Barclays and University College London
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Market Making, Market Impact, Trading Frictions, Option, Algorithmic Trading, HJB Equation, Approximation

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Portfolio Optimization under Transaction Costs with Recursive Preferences

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 29 Feb 2024
Martin Herdegen, David Hobson and Alex S. L. Tse
University of Warwick - Department of Statistics, University of Warwick and University College London
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Merton problem, lifetime investment and consumption, transaction costs, Epstein-Zin stochastic differential utility

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Dynamic Modeling of Tail Risk: Applications to China, Hong Kong and Other Asian Markets

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Vol. 16, pp. 183-210, 2009
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2010
Mike K. P. So and Alex S. L. Tse
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Information & Systems Management and University College London
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Dynamic correlation, Extreme dependence, Multivariate GARCH Model, Risk management, Tail dependence coefficient

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Speculative Trading, Prospect Theory and Transaction Costs

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2021
Alex S. L. Tse and Harry Zheng
University College London and Imperial College London - Mathematical Finance
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S-shaped utility, optimal stopping, transaction costs, entry-and-exit strategies

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Optimal Market-Making with Hawkes Process: A Markovian Approximation Approach via Mercer's Expansion

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 13 Apr 2026
Nicholas Martin and Alex S. L. Tse
University College London and University College London
Downloads 103 (720,278)

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Market-Making, Hawkes Process, Algorithmic Trading, Kernel Decomposition, HJB Equation, Deep Learning, Physics-Informed Neural Network