Wednesday, March 5, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: London versus Europe: the deep division over banking rules and regulations

Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:01 AM PST

It’s EU elections time, and so the mad moments begin.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: On Finding Neglected Companies

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 11:09 PM PST

While at RealMoney, I wrote a short series on data-mining.  Copies of the articles are here: (one, two). I enjoyed writing them, and the most pleasant surprise was the favorable email from readers and fellow columnists. As a follow up, on April 13th, 2005, I wrote an article on analyst coverage — and neglect. Today, I am writing the same article but as of today, with even more detail, and...

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Published / Preprint: Exchange Rate Predictability in a Changing World. (arXiv:1403.0627v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PST

An expanding literature articulates the view that Taylor rules are helpful in predicting exchange rates. In a changing world however, Taylor rule parameters may be subject to structural instabilities, for example during the Global Financial Crisis. This paper forecasts exchange rates using such Taylor rules with Time Varying Parameters (TVP) estimated by Bayesian methods. In core out-of-sample...

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Published / Preprint: Multi-period Trading Prediction Markets with Connections to Machine Learning. (arXiv:1403.0648v1 [cs.GT])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PST

We present a new model for prediction markets, in which we use risk measures to model agents and introduce a market maker to describe the trading process. This specific choice on modelling tools brings us mathematical convenience. The analysis shows that the whole market effectively approaches a global objective, despite that the market is designed such that each agent only cares about its own...

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Published / Preprint: Mean-Variance Policy for Discrete-time Cone Constrained Markets: The Consistency in Efficiency and Minimum-Variance Signed Supermartingale Measure. (arXiv:1403.0718v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PST

The discrete-time mean-variance portfolio selection formulation, a representative of general dynamic mean-risk portfolio selection problems, does not satisfy time consistency in efficiency (TCIE) in general, i.e., a truncated pre-committed efficient policy may become inefficient when considering the corresponding truncated problem, thus stimulating investors' irrational investment behavior. We...

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Published / Preprint: The adaptive nature of liquidity in limit order books. (arXiv:1403.0842v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:38 PM PST

In financial markets, the order flow, defined as the process assuming value one for buy market order and minus one for sell market orders, displays very slowly decaying autocorrelation function. Since orders impact prices, reconciling the persistence of the order flow with market efficiency is a subtle issue whose possible solution is provided by asymmetric liquidity which states that the impact...

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Published / Preprint: Netconomics: Novel Forecasting Techniques from the Combination of Big Data, Network Science and Economics. (arXiv:1403.0848v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:37 PM PST

The combination of the network theoretic approach with recently available abundant economic data leads to the development of novel analytic and computational tools for modelling and forecasting key economic indicators. The main idea is to introduce a topological component into the analysis, taking into account consistently all higher-order interactions. We present three basic methodologies to...

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Published / Preprint: Asset Prices and Risk Aversion. (arXiv:1403.0851v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 05:37 PM PST

The standard asset pricing models (the CCAPM and the Epstein-Zin non-expected utility model) counterintuitively predict that equilibrium asset prices can rise if the representative agent's risk aversion increases. If the income effect, which implies enhanced saving as a result of an increase in risk aversion, dominates the substitution effect, which causes the representative agent to reallocate...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Euro Area ' âdeflationâ versus âlowflationâ

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 09:56 AM PST

By Reza Moghadam, Ranjit Teja, and Pelin Berkmenread more...

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2013 Risk Manager of the Year: Robert B. Litterman

Posted: 04 Mar 2014 07:39 AM PST

The Global Association of Risk Professionals, (GARP, www.garp.org) announced today that it has awarded Robert B. Litterman, Partner and Chairman of the Risk Committee and Advisory Panel, Kepos Capital LP, the 2013 Risk Manager of the Year Award at the Association's 15th Annual Risk Management Convention & Exhibition, held at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City. "It is an honor to...

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