Among all topics discussed during the International Conference on Multidimensional Finance, Insurance and Investment (ICMFII' 2013) held at the College of Business Administration of University of Bahrain from 23 to 25 November 2013, Islamic finance generated a lot of interest from conference...

In this paper we outline the Lagrangian constrained optimization method to solve complex problems subject to constraints. Firstly we summarize the Lagrangian constrained optimization routine. Secondly we outline a detailed implementation strategy. Thirdly and finally we provide example and solve...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence methods contributes to their wide applications for forecasting various financial risks in recent years. This study introduces a novel explainable case-based reasoning (CBR) approach without a requirement of rich expertise in financial risk....

The purpose of this study is to build a system that automatically generates an optimal strategy (AGOS) which can solve the business problem of maximizing the acceptance rate without taking more risks in loan approval process. This paper formulates the finding an optimal approval strategy of a...

A divide and conquer algorithm for exploiting policy function monotonicity is proposed and analyzed. To solve a discrete problem with n states and n choices, the algorithm requires at most n log2(n) 5n objective function evaluations. In contrast, existing methods for non-concave problems require...

A divide and conquer algorithm for exploiting policy function monotonicity is proposed and analyzed. To solve a discrete problem with n states and n choices, the algorithm requires at most nlog2(n)+5n objective function evaluations. In contrast, existing methods for nonconcave problems require...

This article studies optimal portfolio decisions with (long-term) liabilities for small-open economy based investors, including the optimality of currency hedging (Walker (2008a)). The representative investor is based in Chile, but results are likely to hold more generally. The problem is set up...

In this paper we analyze the factors that should be considered when allocating a given policy function at a particular level of government and how these factors affect the growth and evolution of multi-level governments. After discussing the interplay of economies of scale, economies of scope,...

The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, we exploit copula methodology, with two threshold GARCH models as marginals, to construct a bivariate copula threshold GARCH model, simultaneously capturing asymmetric nonlinear behaviour in univariate stock returns of spot and futures markets...