Text-mining technologies have substantially affected financial industries. As the data in every sector of finance have grown immensely, text mining has emerged as an important field of research in the domain of finance. Therefore, reviewing the recent literature on text-mining applications in...

The NP-hard nature of cardinality constrained mean-variance portfolio optimization problems has led to a variety of different algorithms with varying degrees of success in reaching optimality given limited computational resources and under the presence of strict time constraints in practice. The...

We demonstrate that the parameters controlling skewness and kurtosis in popular equity return models estimated at daily frequency can be obtained almost as precisely as if volatility is observable by simply incorporating the strong information content of realized volatility measures extracted...