Monday, October 28, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: New book: "Digital Bank" by Chris Skinner launches today

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 02:21 AM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Valuing FtD Contract under Copula Approach via Monte-Carlo Stimulation. (arXiv:1310.6819v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 05:37 PM PDT

This article aims to discuss some basics in field of credit modeling, specifically the pricing issue of FtD contract. We demonstrate how the popular copula approach is used in pricing FtD contract, and give a stimulation example of such practice based on SAS 9.1.

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Published / Preprint: Illiquidity and Insolvency: a Double Cascade Model of Financial Crises. (arXiv:1310.6873v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 05:37 PM PDT

In the aftermath of the interbank market collapse of 2007-08, the traditional idea that systemic risk is primarily the risk of cascading bank defaults has evolved into the view that it involves both cascading bank defaults as well as funding liquidity shocks, and that both types of shocks impair the functioning of the remaining undefaulted banks. In current models of systemic risk, these two...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: The emergence of Crowdsourcing specialists

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 02:46 PM PDT

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Strata blog.]A little over four years ago, I attended the first Crowdsourcing meetup at the offices of Crowdflower (then called Dolores Labs). The crowdsourcing community has grown explosively since that initial gathering, and there are now conference tracks and conferences devoted to this important industry. At the recent CrowdConf1, I found a...

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Wiley Finance and Investments October Newsletter

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 06:08 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: To Young Analysts

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 03:50 AM PDT

I write this because my friend Tom Brakke is putting together a book.  He wrote a series that started with letter to a young analyst.read more...

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: US market portrait 2013 week 43

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 03:16 AM PDT

US large cap market returns.read more...

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