Jaksa Cvitanic

California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor of Mathematical Finance

1200 East California Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91125

United States

http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~cvitanic/

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Citation 57

High Frequency Traders and Asset Prices

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2019
Jaksa Cvitanic and Andrei A. Kirilenko
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Cambridge - Finance
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high-frequency trading, algorithmic trading, asset prices, limit order market

High Frequency Traders and Asset Prices

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Jaksa Cvitanic and Andrei A. Kirilenko
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Cambridge - Finance
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high frequency trading, algorithmic trading, asset prices, limit order market

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Pi Portfolio Management: Reaching Goals While Avoiding Losses

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
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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portfolio selection, portfolio management, goal investing, mean-variance, prospect theory

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On Dynamic Measures of Risk

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Sep 1998
Jaksa Cvitanic and Ioannis Karatzas
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Columbia University - Department of Statistics
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On Dynamic Measures of Risk

Posted: 30 Sep 1999
Jaksa Cvitanic and Ioannis Karatzas
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Columbia University - Department of Statistics

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Financial Markets Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Mar 2010
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Univ. Paris Dauphine - CEREMADE, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine
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Heterogeneous beliefs, heterogeneous preferences, heterogeneous time preference rates, contracyclical market price of risk, procyclical interest rate, term structure of interest rates, preferred habitat theory, long term risk

Financial Markets Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-45
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 10 Dec 2009
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Univ. Paris Dauphine - CEREMADE, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine
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equilibrium, heterogeneous agents, volatility, optimal portfolios, survival, yield curve, long yield

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Optimal Replication of Contingent Claims Under Portfolio Constraints

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 31 Oct 1996
Mark Broadie, Jaksa Cvitanic and Halil Mete Soner
Columbia University - Columbia Business School - Decision Risk and Operations, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Koc University - College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
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Analytic Pricing of Employee Stock Options

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Nov 2004
Jaksa Cvitanic, Fernando Zapatero and Zvi Wiener
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration
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Employee stock options, early exercise, analytic formula

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Implications of Sharpe Ratio as a Performance Measure in Multi-Period Settings

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Feb 2007
Jaksa Cvitanic, Tan Wang and Ali Lazrak
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Finance and University of British Columbia (UBC) Sauder School of Business
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Sharpe Ratio, Performance Measures, Money Managers

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Asset Pricing under Optimal Contracts

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2017
Jaksa Cvitanic and Hao Xing
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Asset-Management, Equilibrium Asset Pricing, Optimal Contracts, Principal-Agent Problem

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Price Impact and Portfolio Impact

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 10-26
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 18 Jun 2010
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Survival, Price Impact, Equilibrium, Heterogeneous Agents, Optimal Portfolios

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Optimal Compensation with Adverse Selection and Dynamic Actions

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Mar 2006
Jaksa Cvitanic and Jianfeng Zhang
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Southern California - Department of Mathematics
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Adverse selection, moral hazard, principal-agent problems, contracts, continuous-time models

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Large Tournament Games

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
Erhan Bayraktar, Jaksa Cvitanic and Yuchong Zhang
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and University of Toronto - Department of Statistics
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Tournaments, rank-based rewards, mechanism design, mean field games, bifurcation diagram of Nash equilibria

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Optimal Fund Menus

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-47
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 12 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 26 May 2024
Jaksa Cvitanic and Julien Hugonnier
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
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Mutual fund menus, screening, linear pricing, closet indexing

Optimal Fund Menus

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13127
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
Jaksa Cvitanic and Julien Hugonnier
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
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asset bundling, linear pricing, Mutual fund menus, screening

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Competition in Portfolio Management: Theory and Experiment

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2012
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business, University of Cambridge, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Toulouse Business School - TBS Education
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asset pricing, CAPM, delegated portfolio management, mutual fund flows, experimental finance

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Honesty Via Choice-Matching

American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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Proper scoring rules, Bayesian Truth Serum, truth-telling equilibria

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Executive Stock Options as a Screening Mechanism

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2012
Abel Cadenillas, Jaksa Cvitanic and Fernando Zapatero
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Executive Stock Options, Incomplete Information

Executive Stock Options as a Screening Mechanism

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Mar 2005
Abel Cadenillas, Fernando Zapatero and Jaksa Cvitanic
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Boston University - Questrom School of Business and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Executive stock options, optimal compensation

Equilibrium Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice with Heterogeneous Preferences

Paris December 2009 Finance International Meeting AFFI - EUROFIDAI
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 10 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2014
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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equilibrium, heterogeneous agents, volatility, optimal portfolios, stochastic opportunity set

Equilibrium Driven by Discounted Dividend Volatility

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-34
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Sep 2009
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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equilibrium, heterogeneous agents, volatility, optimal portfolios

Credit Risk Modeling with Misreporting and Incomplete Information

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 12, 2009
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2009
Agostino Capponi and Jaksa Cvitanic
Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Credit risk, incomplete information, calibration, nonlinear filtering, Parmalat

Credit Risk Modeling with Misreporting and Incomplete Information

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 83-112, 2009
Posted: 02 Dec 2009
Agostino Capponi and Jaksa Cvitanic
Columbia University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Credit risk, incomplete information, calibration, nonlinear filtering, Parmalat, structural models

Asset Prices, Funds' Size and Portfolio Weights in Equilibrium with Heterogeneous and Long-Lived Funds

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-03
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Feb 2009
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Asset pricing, equilibrium, heterogeneous agents

Asset Prices, Funds' Size and Portfolio Weights in Equilibrium with Heterogeneous and Long-Lived Funds

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Feb 2009
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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On Managerial Risk-Taking Incentives When Compensation May Be Hedged Against

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Mar 2008
Jaksa Cvitanic
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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compensation, incentives, hedging, specific and systematic risk

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Nonmyopic Optimal Portfolios in Viable Markets

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 10-42
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 20 Oct 2010
Jaksa Cvitanic and Semyon Malamud
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Heterogeneous Agents, Nonmyopic Optimal Portfolios, Hedging Demand, Equilibrium

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Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2016
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2017
Jaksa Cvitanic and George Georgiadis
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Northwestern University - Department of Management & Strategy
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Contribution games, dynamic games, externalities, moral hazard in teams, free- riding.

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Honest Binary Choice: The Two Player Case

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Nov 2024
Jaksa Cvitanic, Drazen Prelec, Sonja Radas and Hrvoje Sikic
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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proper scoring rules, Bayesian Truth Serum, eliciting truthful responses, incentive compatible surveys

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Market Microstructure Design and Flash Crashes: A Simulation Approach

Posted: 08 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2013
Charles R. Plott, Paul Brewer and Jaksa Cvitanic
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Economic & Financial Technology Consulting LLC and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Market Microstructure, flash crash, high frequency trading, call markets, market regulation, market simulation

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Beliefs Regarding Fundamental Value and Optimal Investing

Second Singapore International Conference on Finance 2008
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2019
Jaksa Cvitanic, Bradford Cornell and Levon Goukasian
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and Pepperdine University - Business Division

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Investor beliefs, mispricing, optimal portfolios, range reversion, risk premium

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Optimal Risk Taking with Flexible Income

AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Posted: 09 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2019
Jaksa Cvitanic, Levon Goukasian and Fernando Zapatero
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Pepperdine University - Business Division and Boston University - Questrom School of Business

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Utility Maximization, Optimal Portfolio Selection, Optimal Effort

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Hedging Options for a Large Investor and Forward-Backward Sde's

Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Jaksa Cvitanic and Jin Ma
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Purdue University - Department of Mathematics

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A Closed-Form Solution to the Problem of Super-Replication Under Transaction Costs

Finance and Stochastics, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, 1999
Posted: 24 Nov 1998
Jaksa Cvitanic, Huyen Pham and Nizar Touzi
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée (UPEMLV) and Université Paris Dauphine - CEREMADE

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Nonlinear Financial Markets: Hedging and Portfolio Optimization

Posted: 22 Aug 1998
Jaksa Cvitanic
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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Optimal Consumption Choices for a 'Large' Investor

Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper Series #04-96
Posted: 21 May 1998
Domenico Cuoco and Jaksa Cvitanic
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

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