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Rita Duarte Pimentel

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Rita Duarte Pimentel

Associate Professor
Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management

rita.pimentel@ntnu.no
+4773412128 +4741305992 Sentralbygg 1, 1147, Gløshaugen, Alfred Getz vei 3, 7034 Trondheim
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Research

COMPAMA - COMPutational economics and optimization - Agents, Machines and Artificial intelligence

COMPAMA is developing an emerging interdisciplinary area in the borderland between economics, optimization, psychology, machine learning and AI with the main purpose to understand the economic impact of decisions, made by both machines and human agents.

Publications

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2025

  • Fjellavli, Martin; Oliveira, Carlos; Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Schiøtz, Daniel. (2025) Mean–Variance-Liquidity Portfolio Optimization with Reinforcement Learning. The Journal of Financial Data Science
    Academic article
  • Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Risstad, Morten; Rogde, Sondre; Rygg, Erlend Stegavik; Vinje, Jacob; Westgaard, Sjur. (2025) Option pricing with deep learning: a long short-term memory approach. Decisions in Economics and Finance (DAF)
    Academic article
  • Vinje, Jacob; Rygg, Erlend Stegavik; Wu, Cassandra; Risstad, Morten; Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Westgaard, Sjur. (2025) Merged LSTM-MLP for option valuation. Quantitative finance (Print)
    Academic article
  • Aaslund, Bjørn André; Berge, Johannes; Ni, Ying; Duarte Pimentel, Rita. (2025) Neural network-based pricing of high-dimensional Bermudan basket options under stochastic volatility. Networks and Heterogeneous Media
    Academic article

2022

  • Pimentel, Rita; Risstad, Morten; Westgaard, Sjur. (2022) Predicting interest rate distributions using PCA & quantile regression. Digital Finance
    Academic article
  • Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita; Prior, Ana. (2022) The solution to a differential-difference equation arising in optimal stopping of a jump-diffusion process. REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
    Academic article

2021

  • Nunes, Cláudia; Oliveira, Carlos; Pimentel, Rita. (2021) Quasi-analytical solution of an investment problem with decreasing investment cost due to technological innovations. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
    Academic article
  • Hagspiel, Verena; Kort, Peter M.; Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita; Støre, Kristian. (2021) Capacity optimization of an innovating firm. International Journal of Production Economics
    Academic article

2020

  • Tahvili, Sahar; Hatvani, Leo; Ramentol, Enislay; Pimentel, Rita; Afzal, Wasif; Herrera, Francisco. (2020) A novel methodology to classify test cases using natural language processing and imbalanced learning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Academic article
  • Hagspiel, Verena; Huisman, Kuno J.M.; Kort, Peter M.; Lavrutich, Maria; Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita. (2020) Technology adoption in a declining market. European Journal of Operational Research
    Academic article

2019

  • Tahvili, Sahar; Pimentel, Rita; Afzal, Wasif; Ahlberg, Marcus; Fornander, Eric; Bohlin, Markus. (2019) sOrTES: A Supportive Tool for Stochastic Scheduling of Manual Integration Test Cases. IEEE Access
    Academic article

2017

  • Gaspar, Raquel M.; Pimentel, Rita. (2017) On swap rate dynamics: to freeze or not to freeze?. International Journal of Computer Mathematics
    Academic article
  • Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita. (2017) Analytical solution for an investment problem under uncertainties with shocks. European Journal of Operational Research
    Academic article

Journal publications

  • Fjellavli, Martin; Oliveira, Carlos; Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Schiøtz, Daniel. (2025) Mean–Variance-Liquidity Portfolio Optimization with Reinforcement Learning. The Journal of Financial Data Science
    Academic article
  • Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Risstad, Morten; Rogde, Sondre; Rygg, Erlend Stegavik; Vinje, Jacob; Westgaard, Sjur. (2025) Option pricing with deep learning: a long short-term memory approach. Decisions in Economics and Finance (DAF)
    Academic article
  • Vinje, Jacob; Rygg, Erlend Stegavik; Wu, Cassandra; Risstad, Morten; Duarte Pimentel, Rita; Westgaard, Sjur. (2025) Merged LSTM-MLP for option valuation. Quantitative finance (Print)
    Academic article
  • Aaslund, Bjørn André; Berge, Johannes; Ni, Ying; Duarte Pimentel, Rita. (2025) Neural network-based pricing of high-dimensional Bermudan basket options under stochastic volatility. Networks and Heterogeneous Media
    Academic article
  • Pimentel, Rita; Risstad, Morten; Westgaard, Sjur. (2022) Predicting interest rate distributions using PCA & quantile regression. Digital Finance
    Academic article
  • Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita; Prior, Ana. (2022) The solution to a differential-difference equation arising in optimal stopping of a jump-diffusion process. REVSTAT-Statistical Journal
    Academic article
  • Nunes, Cláudia; Oliveira, Carlos; Pimentel, Rita. (2021) Quasi-analytical solution of an investment problem with decreasing investment cost due to technological innovations. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
    Academic article
  • Hagspiel, Verena; Kort, Peter M.; Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita; Støre, Kristian. (2021) Capacity optimization of an innovating firm. International Journal of Production Economics
    Academic article
  • Tahvili, Sahar; Hatvani, Leo; Ramentol, Enislay; Pimentel, Rita; Afzal, Wasif; Herrera, Francisco. (2020) A novel methodology to classify test cases using natural language processing and imbalanced learning. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Academic article
  • Hagspiel, Verena; Huisman, Kuno J.M.; Kort, Peter M.; Lavrutich, Maria; Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita. (2020) Technology adoption in a declining market. European Journal of Operational Research
    Academic article
  • Tahvili, Sahar; Pimentel, Rita; Afzal, Wasif; Ahlberg, Marcus; Fornander, Eric; Bohlin, Markus. (2019) sOrTES: A Supportive Tool for Stochastic Scheduling of Manual Integration Test Cases. IEEE Access
    Academic article
  • Gaspar, Raquel M.; Pimentel, Rita. (2017) On swap rate dynamics: to freeze or not to freeze?. International Journal of Computer Mathematics
    Academic article
  • Nunes, Cláudia; Pimentel, Rita. (2017) Analytical solution for an investment problem under uncertainties with shocks. European Journal of Operational Research
    Academic article

Teaching

Courses

  • TIØ4900 - Financial Engineering, Master's Thesis
  • IØ8304 - Economic forecasts using statistical and machine learning models
  • TIØ4140 - Financial derivatives and real options
  • TIØ4550 - Financial Engineering, Specialization Project
  • TIØ4146 - Finance for Science and Technology Students
  • IØ8815 - Business Economics in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
  • IØ6060 - Environmental and climate risks in loan portfolios
  • IØ8814 - Agent-based modelling in the interface between economics and behavioral psychology
  • IØ8813 - Advanced course in economic applications of machine learning and AI
  • IØ8812 - Introduction to machine learning and AI methods with economic applications
  • TIØ4557 - Financial Engineering, Specialization Course

Outreach

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Dobranszky, Peter; Pimentel, Rita. (2017) Analysis of the incremental loss in case of default events. 2nd International Conference on Computational Finance 2017 , Lisbon 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-08

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