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20162023
most citedThe Minimum Regularized Covariance Determinant estimator

77 citations · 213 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

econ.EM2023

Sluggish news reactions: A combinatorial approach for synchronizing stock jumps

Nabil Bouamara, Kris Boudt, Sébastien Laurent +1

Stock prices often react sluggishly to news, producing gradual jumps and jump delays. Econometricians typically treat these sluggish reactions as microstructure effects and settle…

q-fin.CP2023★ 1 cited

Generating drawdown-realistic financial price paths using path signatures

Emiel Lemahieu, Kris Boudt, Maarten Wyns

A novel generative machine learning approach for the simulation of sequences of financial price data with drawdowns quantifiably close to empirical data is introduced. Applications…

stat.ML2021★ 23 cited

The R package sentometrics to compute, aggregate and predict with textual sentiment

David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, Samuel Borms +1

We provide a hands-on introduction to optimized textual sentiment indexation using the R package sentometrics. Textual sentiment analysis is increasingly used to unlock the potenti…

q-fin.GN2021★ 28 cited

Media abnormal tone, earnings announcements, and the stock market

David Ardia, Keven Bluteau, Kris Boudt

We conduct a tone-based event study to examine the aggregate abnormal tone dynamics in media articles around earnings announcements. We test whether they convey incremental informa…

stat.ME2017★ 77 cited

The Minimum Regularized Covariance Determinant estimator

Kris Boudt, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Steven Vanduffel +1

The Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) approach robustly estimates the location and scatter matrix using the subset of given size with lowest sample covariance determinant. Its m…

q-fin.RM2016★ 16 cited

Value-at-Risk Prediction in R with the GAS Package

David Ardia, Kris Boudt, Leopoldo Catania

GAS models have been recently proposed in time-series econometrics as valuable tools for signal extraction and prediction. This paper details how financial risk managers can use GA…

stat.CO2016★ 68 cited

Generalized Autoregressive Score Models in R: The GAS Package

David Ardia, Kris Boudt, Leopoldo Catania

This paper presents the R package GAS for the analysis of time series under the Generalized Autoregressive Score (GAS) framework of Creal et al. (2013) and Harvey (2013). The disti…