Tuesday, June 24, 2014

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MoneyScience News


Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: 'Smart Betaâ and Portfolio Rule Seven

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:58 AM PDT

I’m not an advocate for smart beta.  There are several reasons for that:read more...

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Published / Preprint: 24Jun/Proposed revisions to Pillar 3 disclosure requirements published by the Basel Committee

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:06 AM PDT

Press release about the Basel Committee publishing proposed revisions to Pillar 3 disclosure requirements (24 June 2014)

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Published / Preprint: Statistical Arbitrage in the Black-Scholes Framework. (arXiv:1406.5646v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:38 PM PDT

In this study we prove the existence of statistical arbitrage opportunities in the Black-Scholes framework by considering trading strategies that consists of borrowing from the risk free rate and taking a long position in the stock until it hits a deterministic barrier level. We derive analytical formulas for the expected value, variance, and probability of loss for the discounted cumulative...

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Published / Preprint: An Unconventional Attempt to Tame Mandelbrot's Grey Swans. (arXiv:1406.5718v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:38 PM PDT

We suggest an original physical approach to describe the mechanism of market pricing. The core of our approach is to consider pricing at different time scales separately, using independent equations of motion. Such an approach leads to a pricing model that not only allows estimating the volatility of future market prices, but also permits forecasting the direction of the price move. Alongside...

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Published / Preprint: Reduction of systemic risk by means of Pigouvian taxation. (arXiv:1406.5817v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:38 PM PDT

We analyze the possibility of reduction of systemic risk in financial markets through Pigouvian taxation of financial institutions which is used to support the rescue fund. We introduce the concept of the cascade risk with a clear operational definition as a subclass and a network related measure of the systemic risk. Using financial networks constructed from real Italian money market data and...

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Published / Preprint: Moral Hazard in Dynamic Risk Management. (arXiv:1406.5852v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:38 PM PDT

We consider a contracting problem in which a principal hires an agent to manage a risky project. When the agent chooses volatility components of the output process and the principal observes the output continuously, the principal can compute the quadratic variation of the output, but not the individual components. This leads to moral hazard with respect to the risk choices of the agent. Using a...

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Published / Preprint: Computation of copulas by Fourier methods. (arXiv:1108.1216v2 [math.PR] UPDATED)

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 05:38 PM PDT

We provide an integral representation for the (implied) copulas of dependent random variables in terms of their moment generating functions. The proof uses ideas from Fourier methods for option pricing. This representation can be used for a large class of models from mathematical finance, including L\'evy and affine processes. As an application, we compute the implied copula of the...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: What a Drag: The Burden of Nonperforming Loans on Credit in the Euro Area

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 08:28 AM PDT

By Will Kerry, Jean Portier, Luigi Ruggerone and Constant Verkoren read more...

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Vendor News: June 23, 2014 - SS&C Appoints Michael J. Zamkow to its Board of Directors

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:09 AM PDT

Event: Free webinar: Cost of Collateral for Clearing

Posted: 17 Jun 2014 03:58 AM PDT

Location: Online; Date: June 26th, 2014; Presenter: Dmitry Pugachevsky: Director of Research, Quantifiread more...

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Vendor News: Fidessa brings intelligent workflow to US Treasuries

Posted: 10 Jun 2014 12:56 AM PDT