Friday, October 4, 2013

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Two is Company, Three is a Crowd

Posted: 04 Oct 2013 01:28 AM PDT

This post should be short and simple.  When there is a battle/negotiation between two parties, the one with that is stronger wins.  With three parties, unless one is stronger than the the other two combined, the negotiation may take some time until a coalition with a majority of power emerges.read more...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 4th October 2013

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:50 PM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Shapes of implied volatility with positive mass at zero. (arXiv:1310.1020v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 03 Oct 2013 05:38 PM PDT

We study the shapes of the implied volatility when the underlying distribution has an atom at zero. We show that the behaviour at small strikes is uniquely determined by the mass of the atom at least up to the third asymptotic order, regardless of the properties of the remaining (absolutely continuous, or singular) distribution on the positive real line. We investigate the structural difference...

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