Previous Semesters
Summer Term 2022
Eva Flonner: Calibrating Financial Models via Bayesian Neural SDEs under P and Q
Lukas Sablica: Random Sampling from the PKBD Distribution
Niklas Hey: Computing Nash equilibria via maximal efficient faces in vector optimization
Sourav Adhikari: Gaining Insights on U.S. Senate Speeches Using a Time Varying Text Based Ideal Point Model
>AbstractGiacomo Bressan: Scaling up climate risk assessment methodologies - A multi-target regression approach for business model detectionl
Regis Gourdel: Bayesian augmentation for financial network stability
Tetiana Kmytiuk: Modeling and Forecasting Economic and Business Processes
Theresa Traxler: Mean Game Theory and Applications
>AbstractAndreas Celary: Regime-Switching Affine Term Structures
>AbstractRobert Bajons: Statistics in Football: Measuring the Impact of Players on the Game
David Hirnschall: Multivariate Sig-Wasserstein GANs
Winter Term 2021/22
Daniel Winkler: shrinkDSM: A Dynamic Survival Model with Shrinkage
Gregor Zens: Efficient MCMC for Binary and Categorical Data Regression Models - Methodological Advances & Implementation in R
> AbstractZehra Eksi-Altay: Momentum and mean reversion under partial information
> AbstractJan Greve: Exchangeable random partitions and Umbral calculus
Verena Köck: Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Parabolic PIDEs: Convergence Analysis"
Peter Knaus: Cerberus in Motion? An Update on the Dynamic Triple Gamma
Julian Amon: Model selection with high-dimensional data in GAMLSSs - A sure independence screening approach
Rainer Hirk: Extensions and new applications of R package mvord
Summer Term 2021
Irene Monasterolo (Institute for Ecological Economics, WU Wien): On the dependence of investor's probability of default on climate transition scenarios
> Paper > AbstractJulian Amon: Time-Varying Alpha
Jana Hlavinova: Quantiles of random variables, vectors and sets and how to elicit them.
Darjus Hosszejni: When It Counts—Econometric Identification of Factor Models with Sparse Factor Loading Matrices
Kevin Kurt: Microscopic Bubbles
Lukas Sablica: Watson S01E03: Random Sampling From the Watson Distribution
Andreas Celary: Term Structure Models in a Markov-modulated Market Setting
Robert Bajons: Markov Modulated Affine Processes in Credit Risk
Sourav Adhikari: Topic Modelling with Ideal Points
Eva Flonner: Bayesian Neural SDEs for Exotic Option Pricing
> AbstractDavid Hirnschall: Generating Financial Markets with Signature-Based Wasserstein GANs
Niklas Hey: A solution method for bounded convex set optimization problems.
Lydia Novoszel: Implication of COVID-19 pandemic on supply chains, a meta-analysis of supply chain disruption research – work in progress
> AbstractRégis Gourdel: Bi-layer stress contagion across investment funds: a climate application
> AbstractGiacomo Bressan: Climate physical risk and the financial sector
> AbstractGabor Tamás: Advanced analytics for smart logistics – work in progress
Philipp Gersing: Generic Identifiability for (Cointegrated) Unit Root VAR Systems from Mixed Frequency Data.
Winter Term 2020/21
Tobias Fissler: The Efficiency Gap
> AbstractGertraud Malsiner-Walli: Generalized mixtures of finite mixtures
> PaperJan Greve: Sparse modeling of factorial experiments with Bayesian finite mixtures
> Paper > AbstractGabriela Kovacova: Convex Projection and Convex Vector Optimization
Kory Johnson: Estimating the reproduction number in the presence of superspreading
> AbstractLaura Vana: Verification of spatio-temporal properties in a Bayesian model using spatio-temporal reach and escape logic
Verena Köck: Solving partial-integro differential equations in finance: a deep learning approach
Camilla Damian: Filtering and parameter estimation in a rough volatility model
Peter Knaus: Cerberus in Motion: The Dynamic Triple Gamma Prior
Rainer Hirk: Multivariate ordinal regression models for enhanced credit risk modeling
Summer Term 2020
Daniel Winkler (Institute for Interactive Marketing & Social Media, WU): Towards Solving Meta-problems in Statistical Computing – A Domain Specific Language for Gibbs Samplers
Lukas Sablica: Watson S01E02
Jana Hlavinová: Elicitability and Identifiability of Set-Valued Measures of Systemic Risk
Darjus Hosszejni: An Efficient Smoothing Framework
Julian Amon: How to publish, not perish? An NLP approach to classifying journal articles
Kevin Kurt: Markov-modulated Affine Processes
Winter Term 2019/20
Annalisa Cadonna, Peter Knaus: Shrinkage in time-varying parameter models: the shrink TVP package and the triple gamma prior
Kory D. Johnson: Adaptive, Distribution-Free Prediction Intervals for Deep Neural Networks
Jan Greve: Modeling of Stochastic Volatility using Factorial Hidden Markov Models -- Learning the number of active volatility components
Gabriela Kováĉova: Acceptability Maximization
Verena Köck: Solving high-dimensional parabolic partial differential
equations with deep learningDan Zhu (Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia): Automated IPA for Bayesian MCMC: A New Approach for Local Prior Robustness and Convergence Analysis with Application to Multidimensional Macroeconomic Time Series with Shrinkage Priors
Guido Gazzani: Asymptotic equivalence in the Le Cam sense
Kory D. Johnson: Efficiently Searching High-Dimensional, Polynomial Space: Algorithms And Guarantees
Camilla Damian: Approximation and (linearized) filtering of fractional Brownian motion
Sühan Altay: Optimal Convergence Trading with Unobservable Pricing Errors
Tobias Fissler: On the Sound Evaluation of Prediction Intervals and other Set-Valued Properties
Summer Term 2019
Andrea Wagner: Benson, we have a convex problem
Diyora Salimova (Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich): Deep neural networks in numerical approximation of high-dimensional PDEs
Larisa Yaroslavtseva (Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Passau): On strong approximation of SDEs with non-globally Lipschitz continuous coefficients
Michael Pfarrhofer: A multi-country approach to analyzing the euro area output gap
Stefan Rigger: Interacting Particle Systems for Modelling Default Cascades
Peter Knaus: Two approaches to variable and variance selection in Bayesian dynamic regression models
Rüdiger Frey and Kevin Kurt: Are European Safe Bonds really safe? A dynamic Credit Risk Perspective
Alessandra Guglielmi (Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano): Determinantal Point Process Mixtures Via Spectral Density Approach
Sara Svaluto-Ferro: Infinite dimensional polynomial jump-diffusions
Darjus Hosszejni: stochvol 2.0: Under the Hood
Jana Hlavinová: Intrinsic measures of systemic risk
Lukas Sablica: Watson...
Florian Schwendinger: Readability 2.0
Winter Term 2018/19
Christian Diem: Optimisation of Financial Exposure Networks: Applied to Austrian Interbank Networks
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter: Identification in Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis
Sercan Gür: Inverse First Passage Time: Estimator of the Boundary
Verena Köck: Optimal Dividend Strategies of Two Collaborating Businesses
Veronika Rockova (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA): Dynamic Sparse Factor Analysis
Camilla Damian: Estimation in rough volatility models: a non-linear filtering approach
Florian Schwendinger: R Optimization Infrastructure
Wolfgang Hörmann (Department of Industrial Engineering, Boğaziçi University)
Summer Term 2018
Gregor Kastner: Sophisticated and small versus simple and sizeable: When does it pay off to introduce drifting coefficients in Bayesian VARs?
> Slides > PaperTina Wakolbinger and Vera Hemmelmayr (both: Institute for Transport and Logistics Management, WU): Sustainable logistics and humanitarian supply chains: Research topics and methods
Eric Eisenstat (School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia): Efficient Estimation of Structural VARMAs with Stochastic Volatility
Rainer Hirk: mvord: An R Package for Fitting Multivariate Ordinal Regression Models
> Slides > Package mvordKevin Kurt: A Dynamic Credit Risk Model for European Safe Bonds
Stefan Voigt (VGSF): Large-Scale Portfolio Allocation Under Transaction Costs and Model Uncertainty
Gabriela Kovacova: Time Consistency of the Mean-Risk Problem and Dynamic Vector Optimization Problems
Annalisa Cadonna: Bayesian spectral modeling for locally-stationary time series
Stefan Bachhofner: ReKlaSat 3D - Deep Learning on Satellite Images
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli: Learning the number of components and the number of clusters in Bayesian finite mixture models
Winter Term 2017/18
Riccardo Rastelli: Statistical analysis of the diversification of exposures in the Austrian interbank market
Andrea Wagner: The Manhattan way of simplification
Luke Tierney (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa): ALTREP: A framework to support alternate representations of basic R objects
Zehra Eksi-Altay: Markov-switching Factor Models: Financial Applications and Estimation
Jana Matyasovska: Elicitability and Identifiability of Systemic Risk Measures
Christian Diem: Determining Capital Requirements Based on a Measure of Systemic Risk In a Multi Period Model with Common Risk Factors of Bank Assets
Lukas Sablica: mistr: A Computational Framework for Univariate Mixture and Composite Distributions
Stefan Weber (Institute of Probability and Statistics, Leibniz Universität Hannover): Pricing of Cyber Insurance Contracts in a Network Model
Laura Vana: Statistical modeling approaches in the assessment of creditworthiness
Florian Schwendinger: Predicting Readability Using Natural Language Processing
Sercan Gür: Local Alternatives of Signal Detection Tests
Darjus Hosszejni: Efficient Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models
Summer Term 2017
Gregor Kastner: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Bayesian Inference in the Threshold Time Varying Parameter (TTVP) Model
Michael Hauser: Profit persistence and stock returns
Zehra Eksi-Altay: Portfolio optimization: a pure jump model with unobservable characteristics and linear feedback effect
Michaela Szölgyenyi: Utility indifference pricing of catastrophe derivatives in a PDMP model
Gabriela Kováĉova: Time Consistency of a Dynamic Mean-Risk Portfolio Selection as a Vector Optimization Problem
Katia Colaneri: Pairs trading under drift uncertainty and risk penalization
Riccardo Rastelli: Estimating the number of clusters in a stochastic block model for temporal networks
Jean-Bernard Salomond (UPEC): Some properties of the Gaussian Scale mixture prior for Sparse models
> Abstract > TalkAnnalisa Cadonna: Local mixture models for spectral density estimation
Kurt Hornik: Variations on a Theme by von Mises and Fisher (Part A)
Laura Vana: Dynamic modeling of credit risk measures
Winter Term 2016/17
Stefanos Dimitrakopoulos (University of Warwick): State Dependence and Stickiness of Sovereign Credit Ratings: Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Sabrina Dorn (ETH Zürich):Balancing Optimized Estimation of Treatment Effects
Annalisa Cadonna (University of California, Santa Cruz): Bayesian spectral modeling for multiple time series
Riccardo Rastelli (University College Dublin): A dynamic latent position model for a bipartite network of Irish directorates
Camilla Damian: EM Algorithm for Noisy Gaussian and Point Process Information
Imke Redeker (Brandenburg University of Technology): A structural model for credit risk with asymmetric information and a switching default barrier
Thomas Rusch: Nonparametric assessment of clusteredness via the OPTICS Cordillera
Rainer Hirk and Laura Vana: Cross-sectional multivariate ordinal regression models: An analysis of corporate credit ratings
Thomas Rusch: The STOPS framework for structure optimized proximity scaling
Matt Taddy: Deep Counterfactual Prediction using Instrumental Variables
Michaela Szölgyenyi: A numerical method for SDEs appearing in insurance and financial mathematics
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli: Sparse Bayesian finite mixtures
Summer Term 2016
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter: A Review of Bayesian Variable Selection for Latent Variable Models
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter: Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis
Andrea Wagner (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Algorithms for DC problems with one function being polyhedral and application in locational analysis
Ari-Pekka Perkkiö (TU Berlin): Convex duality in optimal investment and contingent claim valuation in illiquid markets
Miryana Grigorova (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Choquet integrals, stochastic orders and risk measures
Michaela Szölgyenyi: The first numerical method for multidimensional SDEs with discontinuous drift
Florian Schwendinger: Extending the R Optimization Infrastructure
Rüdiger Frey: Shall I Sell or Shall I wait: Optimal Liquidation under Partial Information with Price Impact
Liana Jacobi(The University of Melbourne, Australia): Bayesian Analysis of Dynamic Earnings for Mothers Effects from Long Maternity Leave
Angela Bitto: TVP Models & Shrinkage
Laura Vana: Ordinal regression models for credit risk measurement
Birgit Rudloff: A recursive algorithm for multivariate risk measures and a set-valued Bellman's principle
Marcel Bräutigam (ETH Zürich): Detecting changes in extremal behaviour
Winter Term 2015/16
Birgit Rudloff: Systemic Risk
Michaela Szölgyenyi: Energy storage optimization under partial information
Birgit Rudloff: Introduction to vector optimization
Zehra Eksi: Portfolio optimization for a large investor under partial information (joint work with Hyejin Ku, York University, Canada)
Gregor Kastner: Bayesian Estimation and Prediction of High-Dimensional Dynamic Covariance Matrices
Klaus Pötzelberger: Quantization
Florian Schwendinger: Analysing the Project Euclid Dataset
Rüdiger Frey: Contagion Effects and Collateralized Credit Value Adjustments for Credit Default Swaps
Sercan Gür: Parisian Options: Monte Carlo Simulation
Josef Leydold: A framework for testing, comparing and visualizing the performance of non-uniform random variate generators
PhD Research Seminar (Brown Bag Seminar)