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A Kolmogorov-Smirnov type test for shortfall dominance against parametric alternatives
This paper proposes a Kolmogorov-type test for the shortfall order (also known in the literature as the right-spread or excess-wealth order) against parametric alternatives. In the case of the null hypothesis corresponding to the Negative Exponential distribution, this provides a test for the new better than used in expectation (NBUE) property. Such a test is particularly useful in reliability applications as well as duration and income distribution analysis. The theoretical properties of the testing procedure are established. Simulation studies reveal that the test proposed in this paper performs well, even with moderate sample sizes. Applications to real data, namely chief executive officer (CEO) compensation data and flight delay data, illustrate the empirical relevance of the techniques described in this paper.Right-spread order; Excess-wealth order; New better than used in expectation; Bootstrap; Reliability; CEO compensation; Flight delay
Designating market maker behaviour in Limit Order Book markets
Financial exchanges provide incentives for limit order book (LOB) liquidity
provision to certain market participants, termed designated market makers or
designated sponsors. While quoting requirements typically enforce the activity
of these participants for a certain portion of the day, we argue that liquidity
demand throughout the trading day is far from uniformly distributed, and thus
this liquidity provision may not be calibrated to the demand. We propose that
quoting obligations also include requirements about the speed of liquidity
replenishment, and we recommend use of the Threshold Exceedance Duration (TED)
for this purpose. We present a comprehensive regression modelling approach
using GLM and GAMLSS models to relate the TED to the state of the LOB and
identify the regression structures that are best suited to modelling the TED.
Such an approach can be used by exchanges to set target levels of liquidity
replenishment for designated market makers
A characterization of the multivariate excess wealth ordering
In this paper, some new properties of the upper-corrected orthant of a random vector are proved. The univariate right-spread or excess wealth function, introduced by Fernández-Ponce et al. (1996), is extended to multivariate random vectors, and some properties of this multivariate function are studied. Later, this function was used to define the excess wealth ordering by Shaked and Shanthikumar (1998) and Fernández-Ponce et al. (1998). The multivariate excess wealth function enable us to define a new stochastic comparison which is weaker than the multivariate dispersion orderings. Also, some properties relating the multivariate excess wealth order with stochastic dependence are describe
Tests for exponentiality against NBUE alternatives: a Monte Carlo comparison
Testing of various classes of life distributions has been addressed in the
literature for more than 45 years. In this paper, we consider the problem of
testing exponentiality (which essentially implies no ageing) against positive
ageing which is captured by the fairly large class of new better than used in
expectation (NBUE) distributions. These tests of exponentiality against NBUE
alternatives are discussed and compared. The empirical size of the tests is
obtained by simulations. Power comparisons for different popular alternatives
are done using Monte Carlo simulations. These comparisons are made for both
small and large sample sizes. The paper concludes with a discussion in which
suggestions are made regarding the choices of the test when a particular
alternative is suspected
Real-time growth rate for general stochastic SIR epidemics on unclustered networks
Networks have become an important tool for infectious disease epidemiology.
Most previous theoretical studies of transmission network models have either
considered simple Markovian dynamics at the individual level, or have focused
on the invasion threshold and final outcome of the epidemic. Here, we provide a
general theory for early real-time behaviour of epidemics on large
configuration model networks (i.e. static and locally unclustered), in
particular focusing on the computation of the Malthusian parameter that
describes the early exponential epidemic growth. Analytical, numerical and
Monte-Carlo methods under a wide variety of Markovian and non-Markovian
assumptions about the infectivity profile are presented. Numerous examples
provide explicit quantification of the impact of the network structure on the
temporal dynamics of the spread of infection and provide a benchmark for
validating results of large scale simulations.Comment: 45 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Mathematical Biosciences on
29/11/2014; Version 2: resubmitted on 15/04/2015; accepted on 17/04/2015.
Changes: better explanations in introduction; restructured section 3.3 (3.3.3
added); section 6.3.1 added; more precise terminology; typos correcte
Ballistic aggregation for one-sided Brownian initial velocity
We study the one-dimensional ballistic aggregation process in the continuum
limit for one-sided Brownian initial velocity (i.e. particles merge when they
collide and move freely between collisions, and in the continuum limit the
initial velocity on the right side is a Brownian motion that starts from the
origin ). We consider the cases where the left side is either at rest or
empty at . We derive explicit expressions for the velocity distribution
and the mean density and current profiles built by this out-of-equilibrium
system. We find that on the right side the mean density remains constant
whereas the mean current is uniform and grows linearly with time. All
quantities show an exponential decay on the far left. We also obtain the
properties of the leftmost cluster that travels towards the left. We find that
in both cases relevant lengths and masses scale as and the evolution is
self-similar.Comment: 18 pages, published in Physica
Triggering Active Galactic Nuclei in Hierarchical Galaxy Formation: Disk instability vs. Interactions
Using a semi analytic model for galaxy formation we investigate the effects
of Black Hole accretion triggered by disk instabilities (DI) in isolated
galaxies on the evolution of AGN. Specifically, we took on, developed and
expanded the Hopkins & Quataert (2011) model for the mass inflow following disk
perturbations, and compare the corresponding evolution of the AGN population
with that arising in a scenario where galaxy interactions trigger AGN (IT
mode). We extended and developed the DI model by including different disk
surface density profiles, to study the maximal contribution of DI to the
evolution of the AGN population. We obtained the following results: i) for
luminosities corresponding to the DI mode can provide the
BH accretion needed to match the observed AGN luminosity functions up to ; in such a luminosity range and redshift, it can compete with the
IT scenario as the main driver of cosmological evolution of AGN; ii) The DI
scenario cannot provide the observed abundance of high-luminosity QSO with
AGN, as well as the abundance of high-redhshift QSOs with , while the IT scenario provides
an acceptable match up to , as found in our earliest works; iii)
The dispersion of the distributions of Eddington ratio for low- and
intermediate-luminosity AGN (bolometric = -
erg/s) is predicted to be much smaller in the DI scenario compared to the IT
mode; iv) The above conclusions are robust with respect to the explored
variants of the Hopkins & Quataert (2011) model. We discuss the physical origin
of our findings, and how it is possible to pin down the dominant fueling
mechanism in the low-intermediate luminosity range where
both the DI and the IT modes are viable candidates as drivers for the AGN
evolution.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 24 pages, 8
figures; updated reference
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