Friday, March 23, 2012

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Blog Post: QFINANCE: Japan: A Surge in Optimism

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:21 AM PDT

Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: The Recovery? You're Lookinâ At It.

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 04:07 AM PDT

This will be controversial in many circles but an important read.

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RT @boomerangomics: Gangster Banks Keep Winning Public Business. Why? http://t.co/7FqXZtB9 by Matt Taibbi via @rollingstone

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:38 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @boomerangomics: Gangster Banks Keep Winning Public Business. Why? http://t.co/7FqXZtB9 by Matt Taibbi via @rollingstone

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Financial Research Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/m5pcfySB #tcm

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:37 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: Financial Research Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/m5pcfySB #tcm

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Financial Research Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/kdeSESm9 #tcm

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 03:17 AM PDT

moneyscience: Financial Research Focus - The RSS Feed - http://t.co/kdeSESm9 #tcm

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RT @portfolioprobe: Low (and high) volatility strategy effects http://t.co/pkjjHH3X Is minimum variance like low vol? #quant #finance

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:43 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @portfolioprobe: Low (and high) volatility strategy effects http://t.co/pkjjHH3X Is minimum variance like low vol? #quant #finance

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The Ultimate #FollowFriday - 250+ Finance and Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/ovMiU99S #ff #tcm

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:43 AM PDT

moneyscience: The Ultimate #FollowFriday - 250+ Finance and Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/ovMiU99S #ff #tcm

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Published / Preprint: The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, by Robert H. Frank

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-3, Ahead of Print.

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Published / Preprint: Models Behaving Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life, by Emanuel Derman

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 509-511, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Calendar

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 513, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Foreword

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 515, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Model calibration and automated trading agent for Euro futures

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 531-545, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: A generalized birthâdeath stochastic model for high-frequency order book dynamics

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 547-557, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: High-frequency trading model for a complex trading hierarchy

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 559-566, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Regularization for stationary multivariate time series

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 573-586, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Integer-valued Lévy processes and low latency financial econometrics

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 587-605, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Estimation of quarticity with high-frequency data

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 607-622, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Detecting market crashes by analysing long-memory effects using high-frequency data

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 623-634, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Systemic risk components and deposit insurance premia

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 651-662, April 2012.

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Published / Preprint: Nonlinear problems modeling stochastic volatility and transaction costs

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:40 AM PDT

Quantitative Finance, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 663-670, April 2012.

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The Ultimate #FollowFriday - 250+ Finance and Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/HWzBM1wG #ff #tcm

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:31 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Ultimate #FollowFriday - 250+ Finance and Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/HWzBM1wG #ff #tcm

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Blog Post: RobertPestonBlog: Three pension tales

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 02:12 AM PDT

BT's vast pension fund, with liabilities greater than £40bn, has been a great millstone for the company.read more...

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One in 10 polled in the US and UK say they would bank with Apple if the firm decided to move into the money sector http://t.co/yzZk54z1 #tcm

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PDT

moneyscience: One in 10 polled in the US and UK say they would bank with Apple if the firm decided to move into the money sector http://t.co/yzZk54z1 #tcm

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Published / Preprint: Fractal Markets Hypothesis and the Global Financial Crisis: Scaling, Investment Horizons and Liquidity

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:32 PM PDT

We investigate whether fractal markets hypothesis and its focus on liquidity and invest- ment horizons give reasonable predictions about dynamics of the financial markets during the turbulences such as the Global Financial Crisis of late 2000s. Compared to the mainstream efficient markets hypothesis, fractal markets hypothesis considers financial markets as com- plex systems consisting of many...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: How Markets Really Work

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 10:24 PM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The future of SWIFT

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 08:33 PM PDT

We had a great meeting at the Financial Services Club this week with Lazaro Campos, CEO of SWIFT.read more...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: McMansions Aren't Bank Accounts: Now What?

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:59 PM PDT

The authors of a new book from the Milken Institute contend that one factor working against the recovery of the housing market in the U.S. is that the residential finance system is almost entirely a ward of the federal government, "a situation that cannot be indefinitely sustained without seriously damaging monetary stability and the prospects for a return to long-term growth," they write. It is...

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Published / Preprint: Fractal Markets Hypothesis and the Global Financial Crisis: Scaling, Investment Horizons and Liquidity. (arXiv:1203.4979v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We investigate whether fractal markets hypothesis and its focus on liquidity and invest- ment horizons give reasonable predictions about dynamics of the financial markets during the turbulences such as the Global Financial Crisis of late 2000s. Compared to the mainstream efficient markets hypothesis, fractal markets hypothesis considers financial markets as com- plex systems consisting of many...

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Published / Preprint: Large deviations for the extended Heston model: the large-time case. (arXiv:1203.5020v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We study here the large-time behaviour of all continuous affine stochastic volatility models (in the sense of Keller-Ressel) and deduce a closed-form formula for the large-maturity implied volatility smile. Based on refinements of the Gartner-Ellis theorem on the real line, our proof reveals pathological behaviours of the asymptotic smile. In particular, we show that the condition assumed in...

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Blog Post: MoneyManagersLive: Debt Limit - A Guide To American Federal Debt Made Easy

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 03:11 PM PDT

Our national debt is a very serious matter but because it is such a large number it takes it out of the realm of reality and makes it difficult to understand. This short video helps put it into perspective.

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250+ Finance / Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/HWzBM1wG @PeerIndex #finance #economics

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 01:31 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: 250+ Finance / Economics Tweeters Worth Following - http://t.co/HWzBM1wG @PeerIndex #finance #economics

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ICMA Centre News: Cross-Market Timing in Security Issuance http://t.co/OYQEzpPd

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 12:11 PM PDT

BusinessSchools: ICMA Centre News: Cross-Market Timing in Security Issuance http://t.co/OYQEzpPd

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Blog Post: OddheadBlog: Congratulations Pete Wurman and Kiva Systems, a bellwether of the automated economy

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 11:57 AM PDT

Congratulations to my academic sibling, friend, and Detroit Red Wings fan Pete Wurman, whose company Kiva Systems just became Amazon’s second largest acquisition ever.read more...

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Blog Post: MarketPsych: Book Review of "Behavioral Investment Management" (2012)

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 10:25 AM PDT

Behavioral Investment Management: An Efficient Alternative to Modern Portfolio Theory by Greg B. Davies and Arnaud De Servigny (McGraw-Hill, 2012)“People in standard finance are rational. People in behavioral finance are normal.” Meir Statman, PhD, Santa Clara UniversityThe above quote by Meir Statman captures concisely the thrust of the concepts explored extensively in this new book by Greg...

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: Chinese Lawyers Chafe At Hitler-esque Oath To The Communist Party

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 10:17 AM PDT

The manifested self or ego is so predictable.  Remember, the human mind has only two intents in everything it does:  the intent to control, driven the the manifested self or ego,  or the intent to discover truth as driven by our higher power of reasoning or human consciousness.  In other words, that which separates us from dogs and cats and dirt and stone.  Although I...

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Blog Post: FINalternatives: Real Estate Hedge Fund To Roll Out Offshore Vehicle

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Dallas real-estate hedge fund KeyPoint Capital Management is readying an offshore version of its flagship for launch this summer.read more...

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250+ Finance Tweeters Worth Following

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 08:47 AM PDT

I've been looking for a way to conveniently display a list of my favourite tweeters for quite some time now and fortunately PeerIndex seem to have cracked the problem with their Groups functionality. Now you can import a group directly from Twitter, edit it and then embed the results on your own page. Not only this, but they organise the list according to their magic algorithm, PeerIndex Scores...

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Blog Post: FinanceClippings: Google public data sets

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 08:38 AM PDT

New to me at least - and really cool.  Tons of data on google. For example - lending interest rates for US vs Iceland.

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RT @itrsgroup: High Frequency Trading: The Party Might Get a Little Less Wild http://t.co/nPBOjbxf #HFT @drjohnbates

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 07:37 AM PDT

fin_tech: RT @itrsgroup: High Frequency Trading: The Party Might Get a Little Less Wild http://t.co/nPBOjbxf #HFT @drjohnbates

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RT @tablewhite: LIST: Good books for hackers interested in #quant #finance? http://t.co/YU1YGFN6

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 06:12 AM PDT

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Banks Team Up to Cut Technology Spending Burden

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 09:54 AM PDT

Investment banks are beginning to share development costs for back office and regulatory compliance systems.read more...

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Video - EU finance ministers debate financial transaction tax

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 09:37 AM PDT

EU finance ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss a proposed European financial transaction tax.read more...

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Documentary Trailer: Four Horsemen

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 08:10 AM PDT

'Can we turn a free market into a fair market?' asks this New Scientist review of the documentary Four Horsemen which has been made by film-maker Ross Ashcroft, the man behind radical economy website Renegade Economist, and features interviews with a broad swathe of economists from Joseph Stiglitz to Noam Chomsky to Gillian Tett.read more...

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Video: Algos: Whatâs Happening Now

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:45 AM PDT

A short interview with Owain Self, UBS’s Gobal Head of Algorithmic Trading.read more...

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US Government Agencies Comparing Notes On Algo Feeds

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Bloomberg Reports:read more...

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