Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Bankers: if you can't jail them, at least you can sue them

Posted: 21 May 2014 02:22 AM PDT

I read three interesting commentaries this week about the financial crisis, and it builds upon yesterday’s discussion of Credit Suisse being the first bank for over a decade to admit to criminal wrong-doing in the USA.read more...

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Vendor News: May 21, 2014 - SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator: May notifications 4.32%

Posted: 21 May 2014 01:07 AM PDT

Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Classic: Changes in Corporate Bonds

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:59 PM PDT

This was a two part article that was published at RealMoney July 19-20, 2004:read more...

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Published / Preprint: DO ARBITRAGEâFREE PRICES COME FROM UTILITY MAXIMIZATION?

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract In this paper we ask whether, given a stock market and an illiquid derivative, there exists arbitrage‐free prices at which a utility‐maximizing agent would always want to buy the derivative, irrespectively of his own initial endowment of derivatives and cash. We prove that this is false for any given investor if one considers all initial endowments with finite utility, and that it...

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Published / Preprint: MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC RISK MEASURE VIA CONDITIONAL gâEXPECTATION

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract This paper deals with multidimensional dynamic risk measures induced by conditional g‐expectations. A notion of multidimensional g‐expectation is proposed to provide a multidimensional version of nonlinear expectations. By a technical result on explicit expressions for the comparison theorem, uniqueness theorem, and viability on a rectangle of solutions to multidimensional backward...

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Published / Preprint: BENCHMARKED RISK MINIMIZATION

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract This paper discusses the problem of hedging not perfectly replicable contingent claims using the numéraire portfolio. The proposed concept of benchmarked risk minimization leads beyond the classical no‐arbitrage paradigm. It provides in incomplete markets a generalization of the pricing under classical risk minimization, pioneered by Föllmer, Sondermann, and Schweizer. The latter...

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Published / Preprint: ARROWâDEBREU EQUILIBRIA FOR RANKâDEPENDENT UTILITIES

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract We provide conditions on a one‐period‐two‐date pure exchange economy with rank‐dependent utility agents under which Arrowâ€"Debreu equilibria exist. When such an equilibrium exists, we show that the state‐price density is a weighted marginal rate of intertemporal substitution of a representative agent, where the weight depends on the differential of the probability weighting...

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Published / Preprint: GAMBLING IN CONTESTS WITH REGRET

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract This paper discusses the gambling contest introduced in Seel and Strack (, Gambling in Contests, Journal of Economic Theory, 148(5), 2033â€"2048) and considers the impact of adding a penalty associated with failure to follow a winning strategy. The Seel and Strack model consists of n‐agents each of whom privately observes a transient diffusion process and chooses when to stop it. The...

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Published / Preprint: HIGHâORDER SHORTâTIME EXPANSIONS FOR ATM OPTION PRICES OF EXPONENTIAL LÃVY MODELS

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

AbstractThe short‐time asymptotic behavior of option prices for a variety of models with jumps has received much attention in recent years. In this work, a novel second‐order approximation for at‐the‐money (ATM) option prices is derived for a large class of exponential Lévy models with or without Brownian component. The results hereafter shed new light on the connection between both the...

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Published / Preprint: UTILITY MAXIMIZATION UNDER MODEL UNCERTAINTY IN DISCRETE TIME

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract We give a general formulation of the utility maximization problem under nondominated model uncertainty in discrete time and show that an optimal portfolio exists for any utility function that is bounded from above. In the unbounded case, integrability conditions are needed as nonexistence may arise even if the value function is finite.read more...

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Published / Preprint: VALUATION OF BARRIER OPTIONS VIA A GENERAL SELFâDUALITY

Posted: 20 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

Abstract Classical putâ€"call symmetry relates the price of puts and calls under a suitable dual market transform. One well‐known application is the semistatic hedging of path‐dependent barrier options with European options. This, however, in its classical form requires the price process to observe rather stringent and unrealistic symmetry properties. In this paper, we develop a general...

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Published / Preprint: Set-valued shortfall and divergence risk measures. (arXiv:1405.4905v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 20 May 2014 05:39 PM PDT

This paper is concerned with the utility-based risk of a financial position in a multi-asset market with frictions. Risk is quantified by set-valued risk measures, and market frictions are modeled by conical/convex random solvency regions representing proportional transaction costs or illiquidity effects, and convex random sets representing trading constraints. First, with a general set-valued...

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Published / Preprint: Correlation structure and principal components in global crude oil market. (arXiv:1405.5000v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 20 May 2014 05:39 PM PDT

This article investigates the correlation structure of the global crude oil market using the daily returns of 71 oil price time series across the world from 1992 to 2012. We identify from the correlation matrix six clusters of time series exhibiting evident geographical traits, which supports Weiner's (1991) regionalization hypothesis of the global oil market. We find that intra-cluster pairs of...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Building the Future: Jobs, Growth, and Fairness in the Arab World

Posted: 20 May 2014 11:38 AM PDT

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Vendor News: Infosys annual report 2014 available online for ADS holders

Posted: 19 May 2014 05:27 PM PDT

Infosys Limited today announced that as in the previous years, it will furnish its annual reports to its ADS holders on its website in lieu of physical distribution.

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