Thursday, April 30, 2015

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Published / Preprint: Operational risk modeled analytically II: the consequences of classification invariance. (arXiv:1504.07805v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:39 PM PDT

Most of the banks' operational risk internal models are based on loss pooling in risk and business line categories. The parameters and outputs of operational risk models are sensitive to the pooling of the data and the choice of the risk classification. In a simple model, we establish the link between the number of risk cells and the model parameters by requiring invariance of the bank's...

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Published / Preprint: Pricing and hedging game options in currency models with proportional transaction costs. (arXiv:1504.07920v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:39 PM PDT

The pricing, hedging, optimal exercise and optimal cancellation of game or Israeli options are considered in a multi-currency model with proportional transaction costs. Efficient constructions for optimal hedging, cancellation and exercise strategies are presented, together with numerical examples, as well as probabilistic dual representations for the bid and ask price of a game option.

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Redacted Version of the April 2015 FOMC Statement

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 12:08 PM PDT

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Managing Capital Flows in Frontier Economies

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 08:39 AM PDT

By Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, and Mahvash S. Qureshi read more...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: More tools for managing and reproducing complex data projects

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 08:07 AM PDT

A survey of the landscape shows the types of tools remain the same, but interfaces continue to improve.[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Radar.]As data projects become complex and as data teams grow in size, individuals and organizations need tools to efficiently manage data projects. A while back, I wrote a poston common options, and I closed that piece by asking:Are there...

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Research - MoneyScience

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:05 AM PDT

Latest Research at MoneyScience http://t.co/bzdCXJ6OjF — moneyscience (@moneyscience) April 29, 2015

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Bitcoin behemoth Coinbase launches in the UK

Posted: 29 Apr 2015 05:05 AM PDT

Bitcoin behemoth Coinbase launches in the UK Bitcoin behemoth Coinbase launches in the UK http://t.co/NN3eGkamwq — moneyscience (@moneyscience) April 29,…

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