Steven Kou

Boston University

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A Jump Diffusion Model for Option Pricing

AFA 2001 New Orleans Meetings
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Sep 2000
Steven Kou
Boston University
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Contingent claims, high peak, heavy tails, interest rate models, rational expectation, overreaction and underreaction

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Option Pricing Under a Double Exponential Jump Diffusion Model

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Sep 2001
Steven Kou and Hui Wang
Boston University and Brown University
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The Term Structure of Simple Forward Rates with Jump Risk

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Jun 2000
Paul Glasserman and Steven Kou
Columbia Business School and Boston University
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A Partitioning Algorithm for Markov Decision Processes with Applications to Market Microstructure

Forthcoming in Management Science
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2017
Ningyuan Chen, Steven Kou and Chun Wang
University of Toronto at Mississauga - Department of Management, Boston University and Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR)
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Markov chains, Large order execution, Electricity trading/production, Partitioning, Quadratic stochastic programming

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Profit Sharing in Hedge Funds

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Profit Sharing in Hedge Funds

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2016
Xue Dong He and Steven Kou
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and Boston University
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cumulative prospect theory, portfolio selection, hedge funds, managerial incentive, first-loss scheme

Profit Sharing in Hedge Funds

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 50-81, 2018
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Jan 2018
Xue Dong He and Steven Kou
The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and Boston University
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cumulative prospect theory, portfolio selection, hedge funds, managerial incentive, first‐loss scheme

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Modeling Growth Stocks Via Size Distribution

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Feb 2002
Samuel C. Kou and Steven Kou
Harvard University - Department of Statistics and Boston University
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biotechnology and internet stocks, asset pricing, birth-death process, convergence rate, power-type distribution, regression.

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External Risk Measures and Basel Accords

Kou, S. G., Peng, X., Heyde, C. C., 2013. Mathematics of Operations Research 38 (3), 393-417.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 May 2012 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2013
Steven Kou, Xianhua Peng and Chris Heyde
Boston University, Peking University - HSBC School of Business and Columbia University (Deceased)
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financial regulation, capital requirements, risk measure, scenario analysis, robustness, value-at-risk, expected shortfall, tail conditional expectation

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On the Measurement of Economic Tail Risk

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2015
Steven Kou and Xianhua Peng
Boston University and Peking University - HSBC School of Business
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comonotonic independence, Choquet integral, elicitability, robustness, model uncertainty, value-at-risk, median shortfall, backtest

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Pi Portfolio Management: Reaching Goals While Avoiding Drawdowns

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Sep 2019
Jaksa Cvitanic, Steven Kou, Xiangwei Wan and Karyn Williams
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Boston University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Antai College of Economics & Management and Hightree Advisors LLC
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A Dynamic Mean-Variance Analysis for Log Returns

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2019
Min Dai, Hanqing Jin, Steven Kou and Yuhong Xu
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, Boston University and Soochow university
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portfolio choices, stochastic volatility, time-varying mean returns, risk aversion recovery

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A Unified Framework for Regime-Switching Models

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 01 May 2019
Ning Cai, Steven Kou and Yingda Song
Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Boston University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Regime-Switching Markov Models; Continuous-Time Markov Chains; First Passage Times; Time Integrals; Generalized Phase-Type Distributions; EM Algorithm

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Does the Prohibition of Trade-Through Hurt Liquidity Demanders?

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Ningyuan Chen and Steven Kou
University of Toronto at Mississauga - Department of Management and Boston University
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Optimal order execution, order routing, dynamic programming

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EM Algorithm and Stochastic Control in Economics

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Nov 2016
Steven Kou, Xianhua Peng and Xingbo Xu
Boston University, Peking University - HSBC School of Business and Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR)
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EM algorithm, stochastic control, recursive model, dynamic programming, monopoly pricing, real business cycle, numerical methods, stochastic approximation

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Non-Concave Utility Maximization without the Concavification Principle

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2019
Min Dai, Steven Kou, Shuaijie Qian and Xiangwei Wan
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics, Boston University, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Antai College of Economics & Management
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Non-Concave Utility, Portfolio Constraints, Discontinuous Viscosity Solution

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Dealership or Marketplace: A Dynamic Comparison

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 29 Oct 2019
Ningyuan Chen, Guillermo Gallego, Pin Gao and Steven Kou
University of Toronto at Mississauga - Department of Management, HKUST, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, HKUST and Boston University
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dynamic pricing, business models, dynamic game, Markov perfect equilibrium, structural properties

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Self-Consistency, Subjective Pricing, and a Theory of Credit Rating

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 01 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2020
Nan Guo, Steven Kou, Bin Wang and Ruodu Wang
China Bond Rating Co. Ltd., Boston University, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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Credit ratings, Structured finance, Dodd-Frank, Axiomatic characterization

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Top Incomes and Income Inequality Indices: A Unified Framework Based on Inequality Index Curves

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 08 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2019
Min Dai, Steven Kou and Hui Shao
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics, Boston University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Risk Management Institute
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income inequality, top incomes, Gini coefficient, weighted expected utility theory

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Exhaustible Resources with Adjustment Costs: Spot and Futures Prices

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 26 Sep 2019
Min Dai, Steven Kou and Cong Qin
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics, Boston University and Center for Financial Engineering
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Exhaustible Resources, Exploration, Production Adjustment Costs

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A Stochastic Representation for Nonlocal Parabolic PDEs with Applications

Mathematics of Operations Research
Number of pages: 31
Min Dai, Steven Kou and Chen Yang
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Mathematics, Boston University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
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Dual-purpose Funds, Feynman-Kac Representation, Linear Thermoelasticity, Nonlocal Problems, Parabolic PDEs

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Connecting Discrete and Continuous Path-Dependent Options

Finance and Stochastics, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, 1999
Posted: 25 Nov 1998
Mark Broadie, Paul Glasserman and Steven Kou
Columbia University - Columbia Business School - Decision Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School and Boston University

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Hedging American Contingent Claims with Constrained Portfolios

Finance and Stochastics, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1998)
Posted: 09 Jun 1998
Ioannis Karatzas and Steven Kou
Columbia University - Department of Statistics and Boston University

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