{"title":"The Cowles–Jones test with unspecified upward market probability","authors":"Markus Haas","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023019","url":null,"abstract":"<abstract><p>The Cowles-Jones test for sign dependence is one of the earliest tests of the random walk hypothesis, which stands at the beginning of modern empirical finance. The test is still discussed in popular textbooks and used in research articles. However, the Cowles-Jones test statistic considered in the literature requires that the upward probability of the market or asset under consideration be specified under the null hypothesis, which is only very rarely possible. If the upward probability is estimated in advance, the resulting test is undersized (even asymptotically). This note considers a corrected Cowles-Jones test statistic which does not require the upward probability to be specified under the null. It turns out that the asymptotic variance is greatly simplified as compared to the uncorrected test. The corrected test is illustrated with an application to daily returns of the Dow Jones Industrial Average index and monthly returns of the MSCI Emerging Markets index. It is shown that the corrected and uncorrected tests can lead to opposite conclusions.</p></abstract>","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135599364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantification of the stock market value at risk by using FIAPARCH, HYGARCH and FIGARCH models","authors":"Moses Khumalo, Hopolang Mashele, Modisane Seitshiro","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023022","url":null,"abstract":"<abstract><p>The South African financial market is developing with periods of high and low volatility. Employing an adequate volatility model is essential to manage market risk. This research study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the fractionally integrated asymmetric power autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity contrasted with long-memory GARCH-type models, such as the fractionally integrated generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity and the hyperbolic generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity for producing the measure of market risk known as the value at risk. These long-memory GARCH-type models assume that the distributions of the index returns follow normal, student-$ t $, skewed student-$ t $ and generalized error distributions. The historical closing price time series of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange all share, the mining and the banking indices are considered. The value at risk and its backtesting for short and long trading positions on the different confident levels are computed and they correspond to the right and left quantiles of the return distributions, respectively. The results reveal that FIAPARCH with a standard student-$ t $ distribution is an appropriate model for producing a robust value at risk in the context of mining and banking indices. Alternatively, FIGARCH with the assumed skewed student-$ t $ distribution model is a good fit to produce a value at risk for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange All Share Index.</p></abstract>","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135611754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sina Gholami, Erfan Zarafshan, Sheikh Sheikh, Shib Sankar Sana
{"title":"Using deep learning to enhance business intelligence in organizational management","authors":"Sina Gholami, Erfan Zarafshan, Sheikh Sheikh, Shib Sankar Sana","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023020","url":null,"abstract":"<abstract> <p>Business intelligence (BI) is crucial in organizational management, providing insights that enable informed decision-making. Traditional BI approaches, however, are limited in handling the vast amounts of data generated by organizations today. Deep learning, a subfield of machine learning, has shown great potential in improving BI through automated analysis of complex and large data sets. In this study, we explore the effectiveness of deep learning in enhancing BI for organizational management. We evaluate the accuracy and F-score of our proposed deep learning model against traditional BI methods in a real-world scenario. Our dataset contains a large volume of unstructured text data from customer feedback forms, which presents significant challenges for traditional BI approaches. Our deep learning model is trained using a convolution neural network (CNN) architecture to classify customer feedback into positive and negative sentiment categories. The model achieved an accuracy of 88% and an F-score of 0.86, outperforming traditional BI methods such as rule-based systems and sentiment analysis algorithms. Furthermore, our model's ability to handle unstructured data highlights its potential for processing diverse data types beyond structured data, commonly used in traditional BI.</p> </abstract>","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136052950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing classification performance in imbalanced datasets: A comparative analysis of machine learning models","authors":"Lindani Dube, Tanja Verster","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023021","url":null,"abstract":"<abstract><p>In the realm of machine learning, where data-driven insights guide decision-making, addressing the challenges posed by class imbalance in datasets has emerged as a crucial concern. The effectiveness of classification algorithms hinges not only on their intrinsic capabilities but also on their adaptability to uneven class distributions, a common issue encountered across diverse domains. This study delves into the intricate interplay between varying class imbalance levels and the performance of ten distinct classification models, unravelling the critical impact of this imbalance on the landscape of predictive analytics. Results showed that random forest (RF) and decision tree (DT) models outperformed others, exhibiting robustness to class imbalance. Logistic regression (LR), stochastic gradient descent classifier (SGDC) and naïve Bayes (NB) models struggled with imbalanced datasets. Adaptive boosting (ADA), gradient boosting (GB), extreme gradient boosting (XGB), light gradient boosting machine (LGBM), and k-nearest neighbour (kNN) models improved with balanced data. Adaptive synthetic sampling (ADASYN) yielded more reliable predictions than the under-sampling (UNDER) technique. This study provides insights for practitioners and researchers dealing with imbalanced datasets, guiding model selection and data balancing techniques. RF and DT models demonstrate superior performance, while LR, SGDC and NB models have limitations. By leveraging the strengths of RF and DT models and addressing class imbalance, classification performance in imbalanced datasets can be enhanced. This study enriches credit risk modelling literature by revealing how class imbalance impacts default probability estimation. The research deepens our understanding of class imbalance's critical role in predictive analytics. Serving as a roadmap for practitioners and researchers dealing with imbalanced data, the findings guide model selection and data balancing strategies, enhancing classification performance despite class imbalance.</p></abstract>","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136307754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intelligence and global bias in the stock market","authors":"Kazuo Sano","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023011","url":null,"abstract":"Trade is one of the essential features of human intelligence. The securities market is the ultimate expression of it. The fundamental indicators of stocks include information about the effects of noise and bias on stock prices; however, distinguishing between them is generally hard. In this article, I present the fundamentals hypothesis based on rational expectations and detect the global bias components from the actual fundamental indicators using a log-normal distribution model based on the fundamentals hypothesis. The analysis results show that biases generally exhibit the same characteristics, strongly supporting our theory. Notably, the positive price-to-cash flows from the investing activities ratio are proxies for the fundamentals. The answer is simple: \"Cash is a fact, and profit is an opinion.\" Namely, opinions of management and accounting added noise to fundamentals. As a result, we obtain the Kesten process and the Pareto distribution. This result means the market knows this noise and shows a stable global bias in the stock market.","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126939232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial forecasting using stochastic models: reference from multi-commodity exchange of India","authors":"Paarth Thadani","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2021011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2021011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Non-linear forecasting models, including artificial neural networks, are popularly adopted in financial forecasting. These models require high computational infrastructure and resources for practical training and deployment, unlike linear forecasting models. However, this level of infrastructure and resources is not accessible to most market participants. This paper lays down a systematic approach to build a simplistic and effective forecasting model, which empowers investors to make informed decisions using a minimal computational infrastructure. Natural gas futures traded in the Multi-Commodity Exchange of India were identified as an appropriate asset for the study considering the massive, expected movement in energy consumption pattern in India. We have used data analytics and statistical techniques to identify optimal training strategies and features, which resulted in an accurate linear forecasting model. Data analytics also helped to accurately establish the context of the study with the identification of a positive shift in the sentiments of market participants of the asset, which was duly verified using the substantial change in the valuation of the asset. While formulating the forecasting model, several avenues, including identifying weekly and yearly patterns, introducing seasonality and exogenous variables were explored. The paper concludes that such attempts to reduce external dependency and segregate noise data result into better model performance with minimal computational resource and infrastructure.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123158408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The usage of logistic regression and artificial neural networks for evaluation and predicting property-liability insurers' solvency in Egypt","authors":"Eid Elghaly Hassan, Diping Zhang","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2021012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2021012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Unlike prior solvency prediction studies conducted in Egypt, this study aims to set up a real picture of companies' financial performance in the Egyptian insurance market. Therefore, 11 financial ratios commonly used by NAIC, AM BEST Company, and S & P Global Ratings were calculated for all property-liability insurance companies in Egypt from 2010 to 2020. They have been used to measure those companies' financial performance efficiency levels by comparing these ratios with the international standard limits. The financial analysis results for those companies revealed that property-liability insurers in Egypt do not have the same level of financial performance efficiency where those companies are classified into three groups: excellent, good, and poor. Furthermore, this paper investigates using the stepwise logistic regression model to determine the most factors among these selected financial ratios that influence those companies' financial performance. The results suggest that only three ratios were statistically significant predictors: \"Risk retention rate\", \u0000\"Insurance account receivable to total assets\", and \"Net profit after tax to total assets\". Finally, this paper presents the multi-layers artificial neural network with a backpropagation algorithm as a new solvency prediction model with perfect classifying accuracy of 100%. The trained ANN could predict the next fiscal year with a prediction accuracy of 91.67%, and this percent is a good and favorable result comparing to other solvency prediction models used in Egypt.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"350 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116688120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on stock price prediction from a data fusion perspective","authors":"Ai-hua Li, Qinyan Wei, Yong Shi, Zhidong Liu","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Due to external factors such as political influences, specific events and sentiment information, stock prices exhibit randomness, high volatility and non-linear characteristics, making accurate predictions of future stock prices based solely on historical stock price data difficult. Consequently, data fusion methods have been increasingly applied to stock price prediction to extract comprehensive stock-related information by integrating multi-source heterogeneous stock data and fusing multiple decision results. Although data fusion plays a crucial role in stock price prediction, its application in this field lacks comprehensive and systematic summaries. Therefore, this paper explores the theoretical models used in each level of data fusion (data-level, feature-level and decision-level fusion) to review the development of stock price prediction from a data fusion perspective and provide an overall view. The research indicates that data fusion methods have been widely and effectively used in the field of stock price prediction. Additionally, future directions are proposed. For better performance of data fusion in the field of stock price prediction, future work can broaden the scope of stock-related data types used and explore new algorithms such as natural language processing (NLP) and generative adversarial networks (GAN) for text information processing.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116762136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-level stacking of LSTM recurrent models for predicting stock-market indices","authors":"Fatima Tfaily, Mohamad M. Fouad","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2022007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2022007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000The ability to predict stock-market indices is important to investors and financial decision-makers. However, the uncertainty of available information makes accurate prediction extremely challenging. In this work, we propose and validate a multi-level stacking model of long short-term memory (LSTM) units for the short-term prediction of stock-index closing prices. The proposed machine-learning model is trained using historical data to predict next-day closing prices. The first layer of the multi-level stacked structure contains an ensemble of recurrent LSTM models that receives time-series data of historic opening, closing, high and low prices for current and previous days and outputs predictions about the next day's closing prices. The second and third layers consist of stacked multi-layer perceptron meta-models. We validated the new model on two stock indices, demonstrating its advantages over single-LSTM models. We also compared its performance against several extant statistical and machine-learning models on a subset of Standard & Poor's 500 index data between 2000 and 2016 using correlation and statistical metrics.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116936397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of blockchain-enabled analytics as a tool to revolutionize the banking industry","authors":"M. Sazu, S. Jahan","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2022014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2022014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Blockchain technology is disrupting the financial services industry and leading to extended big data applications in the banking sectors. Using blockchain and big data technology, banking industries can greatly improve decision-making, efficiency, and transparency. Nevertheless, there is a gap in research on the use of blockchain and big data technologies in banking systems from an academic viewpoint. To address the gap, we present a thorough overview of the impact of blockchain and big data technologies on banking systems. Although some banks have started blockchain development in small groups or isolation, this study was designed as a comprehensive exploration into a few facets of banking with blockchain technology to tackle the difficulties currently impeding the adoption of such technologies into banking systems throughout the world. This study shows that implementing big data and blockchain technology can significantly impact the security, speed and cost of transactions for banks. Further research could be conducted over a long-time span to capture the longitudinal impact of blockchain and big data technologies on banking in terms of the operating costs, profitability and scalability.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125547769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}