Friday, March 8, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Fixing Our Banks: Part Two - the Bank View

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 01:04 AM PST

As mentioned yesterday, I introduced a discussion about Fixing Our Banks this week, alongside a distinguished panel comprising:read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: An Inflated View of the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:20 PM PST

So the DJIA has hit a new nominal high?  Big deal.  It has not yet eclipsed its inflation adjusted high, as is noted by this article at Bloomberg, where they said:read more...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Chavez The Miracle Worker

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 07:02 PM PST

Though I have not the slightest itch to murder anyone, I do read some obituaries with pleasure. Hugo Chavez was a typical tyrant, and I would surely want to emigrate if I ever found myself in such a country.  Yet, many on the left disagree and point out the trains ran on time.  Salon has an article entitled "Hugo Chavez's economic miracle," and highlights that the official poverty rate...

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Published / Preprint: Impact Analysis for Risks in Informatics Systems. (arXiv:1303.1663v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 05:33 PM PST

In this paper are presented methods of impact analysis on informatics system security accidents, qualitative and quantitative methods, starting with risk and informational system security definitions. It is presented the relationship between the risks of exploiting vulnerabilities of security system, security level of these informatics systems, probability of exploiting the weak points subject to...

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Published / Preprint: A new approach for an unitary risk theory. (arXiv:1303.1672v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 05:33 PM PST

The work deals with the risk assessment theory. An unitary risk algorithm is elaborated. The algorithm is based on parallel curves. The basic curve of risk is a hyperbolic curve, obtained as a multiplication between the probability of occurrence of certain event and its impact. Section 1 contains the problem formulation. Section 2 contains some specific notations and the mathematical background...

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Published / Preprint: Coherence and elicitability. (arXiv:1303.1690v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 05:33 PM PST

The risk of a financial position is usually summarized by a risk measure. As this risk measure has to be estimated from historical data, it is important to be able to verify and compare competing estimation procedures. In statistical decision theory, risk measures for which such verification and comparison is possible, are called elicitable. It is known that quantile based risk measures such as...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: What We Can Do To Improve Women's Economic Opportunities

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 03:07 PM PST

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Published / Preprint: ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2012 SMITH BREEDEN AND BRATTLE GROUP PRIZES

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 02:29 PM PST