Damien Challet

CentraleSupélec

Associate Professor

Labo MICS

3, rue Joliot-Curie

Gif-sur-Yvette, 91192

France

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (31)

1.

When Small Wins Big: Classification Tasks Where Compact Models Outperform Original GPT-4

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
University of Paris-Saclay - CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Dauphine, AI For Alpha, AI For Alpha, Université Paris Dauphine and CentraleSupélec
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chatGPT, GPT, Sentiment, LLMs

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Can ChatGPT Compute Trustworthy Sentiment Scores from Bloomberg Market Wraps?

Université Paris-Dauphine Research Paper No. 4688451
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Feb 2024
University of Paris-Saclay - CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Dauphine, AI For Alpha, Université Paris Dauphine, AI For Alpha and CentraleSupélec
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sentiment analysis, ChatGPT, stock exchange, financial news

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Predicting Financial Markets with Google Trends and Not so Random Keywords

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Aug 2013
CentraleSupélec and BNP ParibasEcole Centrale Paris - Laboratory of Mathematics Applied to Systems
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Do Google Trend Data Contain More Predictability than Price Returns?

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Mar 2014
CentraleSupélec and BNP ParibasEcole Centrale Paris - Laboratory of Mathematics Applied to Systems
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Google Trends, prediction, backtest, trading strategy

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Moment-Free Sharpe Ratio Estimation from Total Drawdown Durations

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 May 2015 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2015
Damien Challet
CentraleSupélec
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Sharpe ratio, drawdown total duration, robust estimation, efficiency, price records

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Stylized Facts of Financial Markets and Market Crashes in Minority Games

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 02 Feb 2001
Damien Challet, Matteo Marsili and Yi-Cheng Zhang
CentraleSupélec, Abdus Salam International Centre Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universite de Fribourg
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Bounded rationality, heterogeneous agents, inductive behavior, minority game, stylized facts, minimal model

The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2010
Damien Challet, Sorin Solomon and Gur Yaari
CentraleSupélec, The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University and The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
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Economic growth, transition economies, GDP, modelling, prediction, optimal policy

The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock

Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009-36
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Damien Challet, Sorin Solomon and Gur Yaari
CentraleSupélec, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
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Economic growth, GDP, shocks, response function, modelling, prediction, optimal policy

The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock

Economics Discussion Paper No. 2009-6
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Damien Challet, Sorin Solomon and Gur Yaari
CentraleSupélec, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
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Economic growth, transition economies, GDP, modelling, prediction, optimal policy

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When Is Cross Impact Relevant?

Le Coz, Victor, Iacopo Mastromatteo, Damien Challet, and Michael Benzaquen. “When Is Cross Impact Relevant?” Quantitative Finance 24, no. 2 (February 2024): 265–79. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697688.2024.2302827.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 May 2023 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Capital Fund Management, CentraleSupélec and Ecole Polytechnique, PalaiseauCapital Fund Management
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Trader Lead-Lag Networks and Order Flow Prediction

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Sep 2016
CentraleSupélec, Ecole Centrale Paris, Ecole Centrale Paris and Swissquote Bank
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order flow, lead-lag, machine learning, prediction, networks

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The Limits of Statistical Significance of Hawkes Processes Fitted to Financial Data

Quantitative Finance, vol 16, number 1, pages 1-11, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 24 May 2016
Mehdi Lallouache and Damien Challet
Ecole Centrale Paris and CentraleSupélec
Downloads 217 (293,516)
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Hawkes process, Endogeneity, Order flow, Estimation

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Trading Behavior and Excess Volatility in Toy Markets

SISSA Working Paper No. CM/188/00
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Sep 2000
Matteo Marsili and Damien Challet
Abdus Salam International Centre Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and CentraleSupélec
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Adaptive Learning, El Farol Bar Problem, Minority Games, Market Impact, Adaptive Learning

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Dissecting the explanatory power of ESG features on equity returns by sector, capitalization, and year with interpretable machine learning

Assael, Jérémi, Laurent Carlier, and Damien Challet. 2023. "Dissecting the Explanatory Power of ESG Features on Equity Returns by Sector, Capitalization, and Year with Interpretable Machine Learning" Journal of Risk and Financial Management 16, no. 3: 159. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm16030159
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2023
Jérémi Assael and Damien Challet
Chair of Quantitative Finance, MICS Laboratory, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France and CentraleSupélec
Downloads 173 (361,378)
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ESG features; ESG data; sustainable investing; interpretable machine learning; model selection; asset management; equity returns;

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Sudden Trust Collapse in Networked Societies

Eur. Phys. J. B 88 (3) 55 (2015)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2015
CentraleSupélec, Capital Fund Management and CentraleSupélec
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trust, networks, sudden collapse, collective behavior, crisis, hysteresis, phase transition

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Do Investors Trade Too Much? A Laboratory Experiment

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Dec 2015
CentraleSupélec, Catholic University of Milan, Capital Fund Management, CentraleSupélec and Government of Canada - Bank of Canada
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Dynamical Regularities of US Equities Opening and Closing Auctions

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Feb 2018
Damien Challet and Nikita Gourianov
CentraleSupélec and University of Oxford
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auctions, US equities, linear response, imbalance, liquidity

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The Ups and Downs of Modeling Financial Time Series with Wiener Process Mixtures

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2009
Damien Challet and Pier Paolo Peirano
CentraleSupélec and Capital Fund Management
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Stylized Facts, Student Processes, Hyperbolic Distributions, Wiener Process Mixtures

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So You Are Making Money in Financial Markets: Should You Tell Your Friends How?

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 28 Feb 2007
Damien Challet
CentraleSupélec
Downloads 112 (512,779)
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Arbitrage, price impact functions, paradox, feed-back

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Wisdom of the Institutional Crowd

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Mar 2017
Kevin Primicerio, Damien Challet and Stanislao Gualdi
CentraleSupélec, CentraleSupélec and Capital Fund Management
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Keywords Wisdom of the Crowd, Institutional Investors, Optimal Portfolios

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Turnover, Account Value and Diversification of Real Traders: Evidence of Collective Portfolio Optimizing Behavior

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 16 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2010
David Morton de Lachapelle and Damien Challet
Swissquote Bank and CentraleSupélec
Downloads 81 (633,849)
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Brokerage Data, Collective Behavior, Mean-Variance Portfolio, Non-Linear Transaction Costs, Turnover

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Prediction Accuracy and Sloppiness of Log-Periodic Functions

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Jun 2010
David Brée, Damien Challet and Pier Paolo Peirano
The University of Manchester - School of Computer Science, CentraleSupélec and Capital Fund Management
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bubbles, crash, prediction, log-periodic fits

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Recurrent Neural Networks With More Flexible Memory: Better Predictions Than Rough Volatility

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Jul 2023
Damien Challet and Vincent Ragel
CentraleSupélec and CentraleSupélec
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A Minimal Model of Money Creation Under Regulatory Constraints

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Victor Le Coz, Michael Benzaquen and Damien Challet
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Ecole Polytechnique, PalaiseauCapital Fund Management and CentraleSupélec
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Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Excess Liquidity, Monetary Policy, Interbank Network, Collateral Re-Use, Repurchase Agreements, Money Markets

A Minimal Model of Money Creation Under Regulatory Constraints

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Victor Le Coz, Michael Benzaquen and Damien Challet
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Ecole Polytechnique, PalaiseauCapital Fund Management and CentraleSupélec
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Monetary Economics, Agent Based Model, Asset Purchase Program, liquidity stress test, Interbank network, Repo markets

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Testing the Causality of Hawkes Processes with Time Reversal

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Sep 2017
Marcus Cordi, Damien Challet and Ioane Muni Toke
CentraleSupélec, CentraleSupélec and Ecole Centrale Paris
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Hawkes Processes, Goodness of Fit, Time Reversal

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Financial Factors Selection with Knockoffs: Fund Replication, Explanatory and Prediction Networks

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Apr 2021
CentraleSupélec, CentraleSupélec and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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factor selection, clustering, lead-lag, prediction

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The Market Nanostructure Origin of Asset Price Time Reversal Asymmetry

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Jan 2019
Marcus Cordi, Damien Challet and Serge Kassibrakis
CentraleSupélec, CentraleSupélec and Swissquote Bank
Downloads 38 (906,427)
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Time Reversal Asymmetry, Statistically Validated Networks, Lead-Lag Networks

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Large Large-Trader Activity Weakens the Long Memory of Limit Order Markets

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 27 Mar 2018
Kevin Primicerio and Damien Challet
CentraleSupélec and CentraleSupélec
Downloads 35 (934,602)

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statistical finance, market microstructure

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Stylized Facts in Money Markets: An Empirical Analysis of the Eurozone Data

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Ecole Polytechnique, PalaiseauCapital Fund Management and CentraleSupélec
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Liquidity Coverage Ratio, Excess Liquidity, Monetary Policy, Interbank Network, Collateral Re-use, Repurchase Agreements

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CONSISTENT TIME TRAVEL FOR REALISTIC INTERACTIONS WITH HISTORICAL DATA: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MARKET MAKING

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 24 Feb 2025
Damien Challet and Vincent Ragel
CentraleSupélec and CentraleSupélec
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market making, market microstructure, reinforcement learning, time travel, price impact

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Inter-Pattern Speculation: Beyond Minority, Majority and $-Games

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2007
Posted: 15 Oct 2008
Damien Challet
CentraleSupélec

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agent-based modelling, speculation, efficiency, minority game

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Shedding Light on El Farol

Posted: 06 Dec 2004
Damien Challet, Matteo Marsili and Gabriele Ottino
CentraleSupélec, Abdus Salam International Centre Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and University of Fribourg (Switzerland) - Department of Finance

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El Farol, minority game, exact solution

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From Minority Games to Real Markets

Posted: 25 Sep 2001
CentraleSupélec, Universita di Cagliari, Abdus Salam International Centre Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and Universite de Fribourg

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