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Financial Econometrics and Machine Learning

A special issue of International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 17242

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sahbi Farhani

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Higher Institute of Finance and Taxation of Sousse (ISFFS), University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
Interests: energy economics; sustainability; environmental degree of pollution; climate change; financial econometrics
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Dr. Muhammad Ali Nasir

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Department of Economics, Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Interests: economics and finance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to identify challenges and solutions for machine learning that contribute to financial econometrics with methods that find functional forms of models in a manner that includes artificial intelligence. It covers papers on complex topics dealing with:

  • Prediction for financial forecasting;
  • Asset pricing, corporate finance, international finance, options and futures, risk management, and stress testing for financial institutions;
  • Single-equation multiple regression, simultaneous equation regression, and panel data analysis, among others;
  • Computer technology in financial research (different computer languages and programming techniques used for empirical research in finance);
  • Simulation, machine learning, big data, and financial payments.

A part of this SI will be devoted to the top selected papers that come to be presented in The 1st Conference of the Association for Quantitative Economic Research “AQuER Conf’22”, March 24–26, 2022, Hammamet, Tunisia.

Co-chairs: Prof. Dr. Slim Ben Youssef and Dr. Sahbi Farhani (www.aquer.org).

Dr. Sahbi Farhani
Dr. Muhammad Ali Nasir
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Financial Studies is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • financial forecasting
  • asset pricing
  • corporate finance
  • international finance
  • risk management
  • computer technology in financial research
  • simulation, machine learning, big data, and financial payments

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Factor Sufficiency in Asset Pricing: An Application for the Brazilian Market
by Rafaela Dezidério dos Santos Rocha and Márcio Laurini
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2023, 11(4), 144; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs11040144 - 08 Dec 2023
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The multifactor asset pricing model derived from the Fama–French approach is extensively used in asset risk premium estimation procedures. Even including a considerable number of factors, it is still possible that omitted factors affect the estimation of this model. In this work, we [...] Read more.
The multifactor asset pricing model derived from the Fama–French approach is extensively used in asset risk premium estimation procedures. Even including a considerable number of factors, it is still possible that omitted factors affect the estimation of this model. In this work, we compare estimators robust to the presence of omitted factors in estimating the risk premium in the Brazilian market. Initially, we analyze the panel of asset returns using the mean group and common correlated effect estimators to detect the presence of omitted factors. We then compare the results with those obtained by a estimator robust to omitted variables, which uses a principal components approach to correct the estimation in the case of the omission of latent factors. We conclude that there is evidence of omitted factors, and the best predictor for the expect returns is the common correlated effects estimator. Full article
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Sentiments Extracted from News and Stock Market Reactions in Vietnam
by Loan Thi Vu, Dong Ngoc Pham, Hang Thu Kieu and Thuy Thi Thanh Pham
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2023, 11(3), 101; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs11030101 - 07 Aug 2023
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News on the stock market contains positive or negative sentiments depending on whether the information provided is favorable or unfavorable to the stock market. This study aims to discover news sentiments and classify news according to its sentiments with the application of PhoBERT, [...] Read more.
News on the stock market contains positive or negative sentiments depending on whether the information provided is favorable or unfavorable to the stock market. This study aims to discover news sentiments and classify news according to its sentiments with the application of PhoBERT, a Natural Language Processing model designed for the Vietnamese language. A collection of nearly 40,000 articles on financial and economic websites is used to train the model. After training, the model succeeds in assigning news to different classes of sentiments with an accuracy level of over 81%. The research also aims to investigate how investors are concerned with the daily news by testing the movements of the market before and after the news is released. The results of the analysis show that there is an insignificant difference in the stock price as a response to the news. However, negative news sentiments can alter the variance of market returns. Full article
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Opening a New Era with Machine Learning in Financial Services? Forecasting Corporate Credit Ratings Based on Annual Financial Statements
by Mustafa Pamuk and Matthias Schumann
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2023, 11(3), 96; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs11030096 - 30 Jul 2023
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Corporate credit ratings provide multiple strategic, financial, and managerial benefits for decision-makers. Therefore, it is essential to have accurate and up-to-date ratings to continuously monitor companies’ financial situations when making financial credit decisions. Machine learning (ML)-based internal models can be used for the [...] Read more.
Corporate credit ratings provide multiple strategic, financial, and managerial benefits for decision-makers. Therefore, it is essential to have accurate and up-to-date ratings to continuously monitor companies’ financial situations when making financial credit decisions. Machine learning (ML)-based internal models can be used for the assessment of companies’ financial situations using annual statements. Particularly, it is necessary to check whether these ML models achieve better results compared to statistical methods. Due to the multi-class classification problem when forecasting corporate credit ratings, the development, monitoring, and maintenance of ML-based systems are more challenging compared to simple classifications. This problem becomes even more complex due to the required coordination with financial regulators (e.g., OECD, EBA, BaFin, etc.). Furthermore, the ML models must be updated regularly due to the periodic nature of annual statements as a dataset. To address the problem of the limited dataset, multiple sampling strategies and machine learning algorithms can be combined for accurate and up-to-date forecasting of credit ratings. This paper provides various implications for ML-based forecasting of credit ratings and presents an approach for combining sampling strategies and ML techniques. It also provides design recommendations for ML-based services in the finance industry on how to fulfill the existing regulations. Full article
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Improving Returns on Strategy Decisions through Integration of Neural Networks for the Valuation of Asset Pricing: The Case of Taiwanese Stock
by Yi-Chang Chen, Shih-Ming Kuo, Yonglin Liu, Zeqiong Wu and Fang Zhang
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2022, 10(4), 99; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs10040099 - 27 Oct 2022
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Most of the growth forecasts in analysts’ evaluation reports rely on human judgment, which leads to the occurrence of bias. A back-propagation neural network (BPNN) is a financial technique that learns a multi-layer feedforward network. This study aims to integrate BPNN and asset [...] Read more.
Most of the growth forecasts in analysts’ evaluation reports rely on human judgment, which leads to the occurrence of bias. A back-propagation neural network (BPNN) is a financial technique that learns a multi-layer feedforward network. This study aims to integrate BPNN and asset pricing models to avoid artificial forecasting errors. In terms of evaluation, financial statements and investor attention were used in this case study, demonstrating that modern analysts should incorporate the evaluation advantages of big data to provide more reasonable and rational investment reports. We found that assessments of revenue, index returns, and investor attention suggest that stock prices are prone to undervaluation The levels of risk-taking behaviors were used in the classification of robustness analysis. This study showed that when betas range from 1% to 5%, both risk-taking levels of investors can hold buying strategies for the long term. However, for lower risk-taking preferences, only when the change exceeds 10 percent, the stock price is prone to overvaluation, indicating that investors can sell or adopt a more cautious investment strategy. Full article
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A Deep Learning Approach to Dynamic Interbank Network Link Prediction
by Haici Zhang
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2022, 10(3), 54; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs10030054 - 12 Jul 2022
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Lehman Brothers’ failure in 2008 demonstrated the importance of understanding interconnectedness in interbank networks. The interbank market plays a significant role in facilitating market liquidity and providing short-term funding for each other to smooth liquidity shortages. Knowing the trading relationship could also help [...] Read more.
Lehman Brothers’ failure in 2008 demonstrated the importance of understanding interconnectedness in interbank networks. The interbank market plays a significant role in facilitating market liquidity and providing short-term funding for each other to smooth liquidity shortages. Knowing the trading relationship could also help understand risk contagion among banks. Therefore, future lending relationship prediction is important to understand the dynamic evolution of interbank networks. To achieve the goal, we apply a deep learning framework model of interbank lending to an electronic trading interbank network for temporal trading relationship prediction. There are two important components of the model, which are the Graph convolutional network (GCN) and the Long short-term memory (LSTM) model. The GCN and LSTM components together capture the spatial–temporal information of the dynamic network snapshots. Compared with the Discrete autoregressive model and Dynamic latent space model, our proposed model achieves better performance in both the precrisis and the crisis period. Full article
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Cryptocurrencies Intraday High-Frequency Volatility Spillover Effects Using Univariate and Multivariate GARCH Models
by Apostolos Ampountolas
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2022, 10(3), 51; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijfs10030051 - 08 Jul 2022
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Over the past years, cryptocurrencies have drawn substantial attention from the media while attracting many investors. Since then, cryptocurrency prices have experienced high fluctuations. In this paper, we forecast the high-frequency 1 min volatility of four widely traded cryptocurrencies, i.e., Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, [...] Read more.
Over the past years, cryptocurrencies have drawn substantial attention from the media while attracting many investors. Since then, cryptocurrency prices have experienced high fluctuations. In this paper, we forecast the high-frequency 1 min volatility of four widely traded cryptocurrencies, i.e., Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple, by modeling volatility to select the best model. We propose various generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) family models, including an sGARCH(1,1), GJR-GARCH(1,1), TGARCH(1,1), EGARCH(1,1), which we compare to a multivariate DCC-GARCH(1,1) model to forecast the intraday price volatility. We evaluate the results under the MSE and MAE loss functions. Statistical analyses demonstrate that the univariate GJR-GARCH model (1,1) shows a superior predictive accuracy at all horizons, followed closely by the TGARCH(1,1), which are the best models for modeling the volatility process on out-of-sample data and have more accurately indicated the asymmetric incidence of shocks in the cryptocurrency market. The study determines evidence of bidirectional shock transmission effects between the cryptocurrency pairs. Hence, the multivariate DCC-GARCH model can identify the cryptocurrency market’s cross-market volatility shocks and volatility transmissions. In addition, we introduce a comparison of the models using the improvement rate (IR) metric for comparing models. As a result, we compare the different forecasting models to the chosen benchmarking model to confirm the improvement trends for the model’s predictions. Full article
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