📝 Publications

📈 Portfolio Theory and Investing

💻 High-dimensional Statistics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

  • On Consistency of Signature Using Lasso
    Xin Guo, Binnan Wang, Ruixun Zhang, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Operations Research, 73(5), 2530-2549, 2025. [PDF] [Appendix] [Journal]
  • The Evolution of Discrimination Under Finite Memory Constraints
    Andrew W. Lo, Ruixun Zhang, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Scientific Reports, 15, 31774, 2025. [PDF] [Appendix] [Journal]

  • Interpretable Image-Based Deep Learning for Price Trend Prediction in ETF Markets
    Ruixun Zhang, Chaoyi Zhao, and Guanglian Lin.
    The European Journal of Finance, 2023, forthcoming. [PDF] [Journal]

  • The Success of AdaBoost and its Application in Portfolio Management
    Yijian Chuan, Chaoyi Zhao, Zhenrui He, and Lan Wu.
    International Journal of Financial Engineering, 8(02), 2142001, 2021. [PDF] [Journal]

🧓 Actuarial Sciences

  • The Checkerboard Copula and Dependence Concepts
    Liyuan Lin, Ruodu Wang, Ruixun Zhang, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, 16(2), 426-447, 2025. [PDF] [Journal]

  • Construct Smith-Wilson Risk-Free Interest Rate Curves with Endogenous and Positive Ultimate Forward Rates
    Chaoyi Zhao, Zijian Jia, and Lan Wu.
    Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 114, 156-175, 2024. [PDF] [Journal]

📚 Books

  • Quantitative Investing (量化投资), in Chinese
    Jian Sun, Lan Wu, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Science Press (科学出版社), 2023. [Link]

  • Financial Market Risk Management Analytics (金融市场风险管理分析), in Chinese
    Frank Hugh Koger. Translated by Chaoyi Zhao.
    Truth & Wisdom Press (格致出版社), 2022. [Link]

  • The Maths Book (数学百科), in Chinese
    Dorling Kindersley Ltd. Translated by Chaoyi Zhao.
    Publishing House of Electronics Industry (电子工业出版社), 2021. [Link]

🎓 Doctoral Dissertation

  • Stochastic Models and Statistical Analysis for High-dimensional Multi-factor Models and Induced Order Statistics (高维多因子模型与伴随次序统计量的随机模型与统计分析), in Chinese
    Chaoyi Zhao.
    Doctoral Dissertation in Statistics, Peking University, 2024.

👩🏽‍💻 Preprints

  • No Asset Is an Island: A Real Options Framework for Valuing Interdependent Projects
    Shomesh E. Chaudhuri, Andrew W. Lo, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Under review.

  • Optimal Multi-Period Dynamic Portfolios for Sustainable Investing
    Danping Li, Ruixun Zhang, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Under review. [SSRN]

  • Underperformance of Performance Shares
    Marc Hodak, Andrew W. Lo, Austin Starkweather, and Chaoyi Zhao.
    Working paper. [SSRN]

  • Breaking the Factor Zootopia: Factor Selection via Significant Tests of Multi-Task Lasso
    Chaoyi Zhao and Lan Wu.
    Working paper.