Financial engineering

Abstract

Financial engineering has grown with the advent of computing and this growth has accelerated in the last decade with the advances in artificial intelligence (AI). This chapter explores how subjects such as evolution, deep learning and big data are changing the effectiveness of quantitative finance. This chapter explores the problem of estimating HIV risk, simulating the stock market using multi-agent systems, applying control systems for inflation targeting and factor analysis. The results demonstrate that AI improves the estimation of HIV risk, makes stock markets homogeneous and efficient, is a good basis for building models that target inflation and enhances the identification of factors that drive inflation.