Sunday, April 27, 2014

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Why it is Hard to Win in Investing

Posted: 26 Apr 2014 05:18 AM PDT

Before I start this evening, I want to say something about many investment books that I have been reading of late.  In terms of information toward the stated goal of the book, there is often a lot of build up, some of it necessary, some not, some of it interesting, some not, occasionally some unique insights, but most of the time not.  Much of it is filler that could be eliminated.  And, if...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Reduced Speed, Rising Challenges: IMF Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 07:10 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Art would not flourish without banks

Posted: 25 Apr 2014 01:55 AM PDT

Having spent some time talking about life 700 years ago, you relaise that some things stay constant. read more...

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Published / Preprint: Incorporating a Volatility Smile into the Markov-Functional Model. (arXiv:1404.6120v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 05:39 PM PDT

We study a Markov-Functional (MF) interest-rate model with Uncertain Volatility Displaced Diffusion (UVDD) digital mapping, which is consistent with the volatility-smile phenomenon observed in the option market. We first check the impact of pricing Bermudan swaptions by the model. Next, we also investigate the future smiles implied by the MF models and the smile dynamics implied by the UVDD...

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Published / Preprint: A Multi-Entity Input Output (MEIO) Approach to Sustainability - Water-Energy-GHG (WEG) Footprint Statements in Use Cases from Auto and Telco Industries. (arXiv:1404.6227v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 05:39 PM PDT

A new Input-Output model, called the Multi-Entity Input-Output (MEIO) model, is introduced to estimate the responsibility of entities of an ecosystem on the footprint of each other. It assumed that the ecosystem is comprised of end users, service providers, and utilities. The proposed MEIO modeling approach can be seen as a realization of the Everybody-in-the-Loop (EitL) framework, which promotes...

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Published / Preprint: A model of financial contagion with variable asset returns may be replaced with a simple threshold model of cascades. (arXiv:1312.6804v2 [q-fin.RM] UPDATED)

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 05:39 PM PDT

I show the equivalence between a model of financial contagion and the threshold model of global cascades proposed by Watts (2002). The model financial network comprises banks that hold risky external assets as well as interbank assets. It is shown that a simple threshold model can replicate the size and the frequency of financial contagion without using information about individual balance...

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Gain insight into Islamic banking, finance and economic development with Wiley Finance

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 11:59 AM PDT

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Vendor News: April 24, 2014 - SS&C Launches REIT Servicing Group

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 06:08 AM PDT

Published / Preprint: Measurement and Internalization of Systemic Risk in a Global Banking Network. (arXiv:1404.5689v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 05:30 PM PDT

The negative externalities from an individual bank failure to the whole system can be huge. One of the key purposes of bank regulation is to internalize the social costs of potential bank failures via capital charges. This study proposes a method to evaluate and allocate the systemic risk to different countries/regions using a SIR type of epidemic spreading model and the Shapley value in game...

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Vendor News: Infosys DigitizeEdge Creates New Immersive Experience for Orange IPTV Viewers

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:50 AM PDT

Infosys partners with Orange to offer customers a wide range of TV apps on the Orange Livebox Play. These apps will be powered by Infosys DigitizeEdge.

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Protect Your Investments in Todayâs Global Economic Climate with Wiley Finance

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:30 AM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Futures Premium and Efficiency of the Rice Futures Markets in Prewar Japan. (arXiv:1404.5381v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:18 AM PDT

This paper examines how the Tokyo and Osaka rice futures markets in prewar Japan were evolving in view of market efficiency. Applying a non-Bayesian time-varying model approach to analyze the famous equation for the futures premium, we find that the market efficiency of the two major rice futures markets varied with time. Such time-varying structure of the rice futures markets in prewar Japan...

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Published / Preprint: Continuous time portfolio choice under monotone preferences with quadratic penalty - stochastic interest rate case. (arXiv:1404.5408v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 02:18 AM PDT

This is a follow up of our previous paper - Trybu{\l}a and Zawisza \cite{TryZaw}, where we considered a modification of a monotone mean-variance functional in continuous time in stochastic factor model. In this article we address the problem of optimizing the mentioned functional in a market with a stochastic interest rate. We formulate it as a stochastic differential game problem and use...

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Published / Preprint: 23Apr/William Coen appointed as the next Secretary General of the Basel Committee

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 12:36 AM PDT

BIS press release about the Basel Committee appointing William Coen as its next Secretary General (23 April 2014)

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Verticalized Big Data applications

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:32 AM PDT

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Data blog.]As much as I love talking about general-purpose big data platforms and data science frameworks, I'm the first to admit that many of the interesting startups I talk to are focused on specific verticals. At their core big data applications merge large amounts of real-time and static data to improve decision-making:This simple idea can be...

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Published / Preprint: Spectral Model of Turnover Reduction. (arXiv:1404.5050v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 AM PDT

When trades are crossed between multiple alpha streams, portfolio turnover decreases. Turnover reduction needs to be taken into account for optimizing asset allocation to these alphas. We propose a spectral model of turnover reduction for a general alpha correlation matrix in the limit where the number of alphas is large.

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Published / Preprint: High-order compact finite difference schemes for option pricing in stochastic volatility models on non-uniform grids. (arXiv:1404.5138v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 AM PDT

We derive high-order compact finite difference schemes for option pricing in stochastic volatility models on non-uniform grids. The schemes are fourth-order accurate in space and second-order accurate in time for vanishing correlation. In our numerical study we obtain high-order numerical convergence also for non-zero correlation and non-smooth payoffs which are typical in option pricing. In all...

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Published / Preprint: High-order compact finite difference scheme for option pricing in stochastic volatility models. (arXiv:1404.5140v1 [q-fin.CP])

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 AM PDT

We derive a new high-order compact finite difference scheme for option pricing in stochastic volatility models. The scheme is fourth-order accurate in space and second-order accurate in time. Under some restrictions, theoretical results like unconditional stability in the sense of von Neumann are presented. Where the analysis becomes too involved we validate our findings by a numerical study....

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Published / Preprint: Self-Averaging Property of Minimal Investment Risk of Mean-Variance Model. (arXiv:1404.5222v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 AM PDT

In portfolio optimization problems, the minimum expected investment risk is not always smaller than the expected minimal investment risk. That is, using a well-known approach from operations research, it is possible to derive a strategy that minimizes the expected investment risk, but this strategy does not always result in the best rate of return on assets. Prior to making investment decisions,...

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Published / Preprint: Reconstruction of density functions by sk-splines. (arXiv:1404.5271v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 03:28 AM PDT

Reconstruction of density functions and their characteristic functions by radial basis functions with scattered data points is a popular topic in the theory of pricing of basket options. Such functions are usually entire or admit an analytic extension into an appropriate tube and "bell-shaped" with rapidly decaying tails. Unfortunately, the domain of such functions is not compact which creates...

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Published / Preprint: Could corporate governance practices enhance social welfare?

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 11:16 PM PDT



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Published / Preprint: Financial centers and firm performance during the crisis period: Evidence from India

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 11:16 PM PDT



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Published / Preprint: Corporate governance in Kuwait: An analysis in terms of grounded theory

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 11:16 PM PDT



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Published / Preprint: Financial statements are messages that need a context to be better understood

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 11:16 PM PDT



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Published / Preprint: Market reactions to Wells Notice: An empirical analysis

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 11:16 PM PDT



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Vendor News: Portfolio Probe support news

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 10:55 AM PDT

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: US market portrait 2014 week 16

Posted: 19 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT

US large cap market returns.read more...

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Vendor News: GW&K Live on FidessaâÂÂs Sentinel Compliance Service

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:54 AM PDT

Interview with Cyril Demaria, author of Introduction to Private Equity: Venture, Growth, LBO and Turn-Around Capital, 2nd Edition

Posted: 04 Apr 2014 02:39 AM PDT

Interview with Cyril Demaria, author of Introduction to Private Equity: Venture, Growth, LBO and Turn-Around Capital, 2nd Editionread more...

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