In this paper, we consider an optimal portfolio de-leveraging problem, where the objective is to meet specified debt/equity requirements at the minimal execution cost. Permanent and temporary price impact is taken into account. With no restrictions on the relative magnitudes of permanent and...

Since the financial crisis in 2007-2008, the vulnerability of a financial system has become a major concern in financial engineering. In this paper, we analyze the vulnerability of a financial network based on the linear optimization model introduced by Eisenberg and Noe (2001), where the right...

This dissertation consists of two distinct lines of research e orts. Chapter 2 proposes a general methodology to seek robust solution to multi-stage stochastic optimization problems. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 all deal with models that arise from inventory management and dynamic pricing. Chapter 2...

In this thesis, we study the behavior of bankrupt stocks. Bankrupt stock is a special case of the Hard-to-Borrow stocks. Besides the general nice feature of the Hard-to-borrow feedback for the buy-in demand, the bankrupt stocks could exclude the diffusive effects. This nice property would modify...

In the Black-Scholes-Merton model, as well as in more general stochastic models in finance, the price of an American option solves a parabolic variational inequality. When the variational inequality is discretized, one obtains a linear complementarity problem that must be solved at each time...

We derive an expansion for the (expected) difference between the continuously monitored supremum and evenly monitored discrete maximum over a finite time horizon of a jump diffusion process with i.i.d. normal jump sizes. The monitoring error is of the form $a_0/N^{1/2}$ $ a_1/N^{3/2}$ $ \cdots$...

This paper presents a set of schemes for the fast and accurate inversion of analytic characteristic functions. The schemes are based on sinc expansion approximation of functions that are analytic in a horizontal strip in the complex plane. A function in this class can be reconstructed highly...

The simulation of a discrete sample path of a Levy process reduces to simulating from the distribution of a Levy increment. For a general Levy process with exponential moments, the inverse transform method proposed in Glasserman and Liu 2010 [24] is reliable and efficient. The values of the...