Monday, June 4, 2012

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Published / Preprint: Friendship networks and social status

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 01:54 AM PDT

In empirical studies of friendship networks participants are typically asked, in interviews or questionnaires, to identify some or all of their close friends, resulting in a directed network in which friendships can, and often do, run in only one direction between a pair of individuals. Here we analyze a large collection of such networks representing friendships among students at US high and...

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Published / Preprint: Cascading Failures in Interdependent Lattice Networks: The Critical Role of the Length of Dependency Links

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 01:54 AM PDT

We study the cascading failures in a system composed of two interdependent square lattice networks A and B placed on the same Cartesian plane, where each node in network A depends on a node in network B randomly chosen within a certain distance $r$ from the corresponding node in network A and vice versa. Our results suggest that percolation for small $r$ below $r_{\rm max}\approx 8$...

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Published / Preprint: The evolution of interdisciplinarity in physics research

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 01:54 AM PDT

Science, being a social enterprise, is subject to fragmentation into groups that focus on specialized areas or topics. Often new advances occur through cross-fertilization of ideas between sub-fields that otherwise have little overlap as they study dissimilar phenomena using different techniques. Thus to explore the nature and dynamics of scientific progress one needs to consider the large-scale...

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv ⸠Top stories today via @ESSEC_MSMM @IESEexeced

Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:30 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv â–¸ Top stories today via @ESSEC_MSMM @IESEexeced

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Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once' #tcm http://t.co/y5TvUkO1

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:02 PM PDT

moneyscience: Paul Krugman: 'I'm sick of being Cassandra. I'd like to win for once' #tcm http://t.co/y5TvUkO1

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Published / Preprint: Stochastic Volatility with Heterogeneous Time Scales. (arXiv:1206.0026v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:33 PM PDT

Agents' heterogeneity has been recognized as a driver mechanism for the persistence of financial volatility. We focus on the multiplicity of investment strategies' horizons; we embed this concept in a continuous time stochastic volatility framework and prove that a parsimonious, two-scales version effectively capture the long memory as measured from the real data. Since estimating parameters in a...

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Published / Preprint: Error estimates for binomial approximations of game put options. (arXiv:1206.0153v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:33 PM PDT

We construct algorithms via binomial approximations for computation of prices of game put options and obtain estimates of approximation errors.

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Published / Preprint: Cone-Constrained Continuous-Time Markowitz Problems. (arXiv:1206.0243v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:33 PM PDT

The Markowitz problem consists of finding in a financial market a self-financing trading strategy whose final wealth has maximal mean and minimal variance. We study this in continuous time in a general semimartingale model and under cone constraints: Trading strategies must take values in a (possibly random and time-dependent) closed cone. We first prove existence of a solution for convex...

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RT @carlcarrie: Paper examines the role of exclusivity constraints on informed trading in dark pools and resulting executional quality h ...

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:33 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @carlcarrie: Paper examines the role of exclusivity constraints on informed trading in dark pools and resulting executional quality h ...

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RT @carlcarrie: Paper (actually presentation) on using a variety of news, event and alpha signals in order execution trading http://t.co ...

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:23 PM PDT

moneyscience: RT @carlcarrie: Paper (actually presentation) on using a variety of news, event and alpha signals in order execution trading http://t.co ...

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Published / Preprint: 04Jun/June 2012 Quarterly Review: returning doubts drive up financial market volatility

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 12:04 PM PDT

BIS Quarterly Review - 4 June 2012 (BIS Press Release)

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MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3uYqFU : Top stories today via @MktAnthropology @zanuda75 @Risk_Mgmt

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 07:43 AM PDT

moneyscience: MoneyScience Daily is out! http://t.co/yz3uYqFU â–¸ Top stories today via @MktAnthropology @zanuda75 @Risk_Mgmt

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jds9GCg0 : Top stories today via @asymptotix @salfordsystems @hpcnotes

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 06:01 AM PDT

fin_tech: Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jds9GCg0 â–¸ Top stories today via @asymptotix @salfordsystems @hpcnotes

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I've been busy this week. An update to the MoneyScience Home Page: http://t.co/mFP3kPZb #tcm

Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:37 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: I've been busy this week. An update to the MoneyScience Home Page: http://t.co/mFP3kPZb #tcm

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Podcast: Regulatory Reporting and Legal Entity Identifiers

Posted: 20 May 2012 10:57 PM PDT

An interesting piece for the Regulatory / Tech Wonks among you. read more...

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New Dates: Introduction to QuantLib Development with Luigi Ballabio - June 18-20, London

Posted: 18 May 2012 06:34 AM PDT

************************* NEW DATES, NEW LOCATION *************************read more...

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Being There

Posted: 18 May 2012 03:07 AM PDT

I’ve watched the 1979 Peter Sellers film, Being There this week for the first time.  It’s an intriguing film – a man with learning difficulties is accidentally thrust into the world of the Washington elite.  The elite are so insulated in their bubble that they do not recognise ‘Chancey’ for who he is, they assume he is the same as them, and take his child-like...

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