Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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RT @msgbi: Noahpinion: What is math, and why should we use it in economics? http://t.co/jcpp6mFj @rszbt @teraeuro

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:26 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @msgbi: Noahpinion: What is math, and why should we use it in economics? http://t.co/jcpp6mFj @rszbt @teraeuro

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RT @carlcarrie: Paper models inter-listed stocks, long/short term price discovery effects, relative exchange efficiency http://t.co/n6NJnns8

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:02 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @carlcarrie: Paper models inter-listed stocks, long/short term price discovery effects, relative exchange efficiency http://t.co/n6NJnns8

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An Economist Talks Rubbish or "Asset Pricing with Garbage" #tcm http://t.co/E7BOjg6G

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:50 AM PST

moneyscience: An Economist Talks Rubbish or "Asset Pricing with Garbage" #tcm http://t.co/E7BOjg6G

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Can you imagine your bank advertising like this?

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:49 AM PST

Japan has so much culture, tradition, beauty and รข€¦ downright weirdness.read more...

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Research Library: Asset Pricing with Garbage (pdf)

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:25 AM PST

ALEXI SAVOV Abstract A new measure of consumption, garbage, is more volatile and more correlated with stocks than the canonical measure, NIPA consumption expenditure. A garbage-based CCAPM matches the U.S. equity premium with relative risk aversion of 17 versus 81 and evades the joint equity premium-risk-free rate puzzle. These results carry through to European data. In a cross-section of size,...

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An Economist Talks Rubbish or Asset Pricing with Garbage

Posted: 06 Nov 2012 01:21 AM PST

A researcher has used the rubbish we throw away as an alternative, more reliable measure of consumption than the standard model.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: An Actuarial Question

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:34 PM PST

Here is a question from a reader:read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Idiocracy in Action

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:18 PM PST

Ideally, politics is about coming up with a set of understood compromises on issues trading off redistribution and efficiency.  In practice, everyone presents their ideas as win-win on an absolute basis, except for perhaps the very wealthy (little pity there). Admitting there will be trade-offs, winners and losers, seems a dominated strategy.  As most people have instincts on the long...

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Published / Preprint: Multilevel simulation of functionals of Bernoulli random variables with application to basket credit derivatives. (arXiv:1211.0707v1 [math.NA])

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 05:33 PM PST

We consider $N$ Bernoulli random variables, which are independent conditional on a common random factor determining their probability distribution. We show that certain expected functionals of the proportion $L_N$ of variables in a given state converge at rate 1/N as $N\rightarrow \infty$. Based on these results, we propose a multi-level simulation algorithm using a family of sequences...

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Published / Preprint: Heat Kernel Framework for Asset Pricing in Finite Time. (arXiv:1211.0856v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 05:33 PM PST

A heat kernel approach is proposed for the development of a general, flexible, and mathematically tractable asset pricing framework in finite time. The pricing kernel, giving rise to the price system in an incomplete market, is modelled by weighted heat kernels that are driven by multivariate Markov processes and that provide enough degrees of freedom in order to calibrate to relevant data, e.g....

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Research Library: Behavioral Finance in Joseph De La Vega’s Confusion De Confusiones

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:04 AM PST

M. Teresa Corzo Universidad Pontificia Comillas Margarita Prat affiliation not provided to SSRN Maria Esther Vaquero Lafuente affiliation not provided to SSRN Abstract In this paper, we link Joseph de la Vega’s work Confusion de Confusiones, written in 1688, with current behavioral finance and propose that Vega be considered the first precursor of modern behavioral finance. In addition...

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Research Library: Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:01 AM PST

Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center Abstract The British Railway Mania of the 1840s was by many measures the greatest technology mania in history, and its collapse was one of the greatest financial crashes. It has attracted surprisingly little scholarly interest. In particular, it has not been noted that it provides a...

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