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Serial and Parallel Krylov Methods for Implicit Finite Difference Schemes Arising in Multivariate Option Pricing
KËLLEZI, Evis; PAULETTO, Giorgio - Swiss Finance Institute - 2001
This paper investigates computational and implementation issues for the valuation of options on three underlying assets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005612061
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Quantitative Selection of Long-Short Hedge Funds
CHEN, Kaifeng; PASSOW, Alexander - Swiss Finance Institute - 2003
We develop a quantitative model to select hedge funds in the long-short equity sector. The selection strategy is verified on a survivorship-bias-free hedge fund database, from January 1990 to September 2002. We focus on the hedge funds acting exclusively in the U.S. market. We identify...
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Exploring for the Determinants of Credit Risk in Credit Default Swap Transaction Data: Is Fixed-Income Markets’ Information Suffcient to Evaluate Credit Risk?
Cossin, Didier; Hricko, Tomas; Aunon-Nerin, Daniel; … - Swiss Finance Institute - 2002
We investigate the influence of various fundamental variables on a cross-section of credit default swap transaction data. Credit default swap rates can be seen as a superior proxy to credit risk than bond spreads are. Because we have transaction prices rather than quotes, we have thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248398
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Sovereign Debt Contract and Optimal Consumption-Investment Strategies
DEMCHUK, Andriy - Swiss Finance Institute - 2003
We present a model in which a sovereign country optimally decides on its consumption and investment policies as well as on the optimal time to default. In the paper we allow the sovereign borrower to keep the fraction of its augmented wealth in so-called international reserves. We further assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248402
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Option Pricing with Discrete Rebalancing
PRIGENT, Jean-Luc; RENAULT, Olivier; SCAILLET, Olivier - Swiss Finance Institute - 2002
We consider option pricing when dynamic portfolios are discretely rebalanced. The portfolio adjustments only occur after ¯xed relative changes in the stock price. The stock price follows a marked point process and the market is incomplete. We first characterisethe equivalent martingale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264584
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Defaultable Security Valuation and Model Risk
AKGUN, Aydin - Swiss Finance Institute - 2001
The aim of the paper is to analyse the effects of different model specifications, within a general nested framework, on the valuation of defaultable bonds, and some credit derivatives. Assuming that the primitive variables such as the risk-free short rate, and the credit spread are affine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264590
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Credit Spread Specification and the Pricing of Spread Options
Mougeot, Nicolas - Swiss Finance Institute
This paper presents a simple approach to the pricing of options on spread and some arguments in favor of modelling the … options have some very specific features compared to the Black-Scholes-Merton (1973) option model. Moreover, the results show … other yield derivatives, like options to exchange a yield for another or the options on the maximum or the minimum of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771787
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The Effects of Macroeconomic News on Beliefs and Preferences: Evidence from the Options Market
BEBER, Alessandro; BRANDT, Michael W. - Swiss Finance Institute - 2004
We examine the effect of regularly scheduled macroeconomic announcements on the beliefs and preferences of participants in the U.S. Treasury market by comparing the option-implied state-price density (SPD) of bond prices shortly before and after the announcements. We find that the announcements...
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Theory and Calibration of Swap Market Models
Galluccio, S.; Huang, Z.; Ly, J.-M.; Scaillet, O. - Swiss Finance Institute - 2005
This paper introduces a general framework for market models, named Market Model Approach, through the concept of admissible sets of for-ward swap rates spanning a given tenor structure. We relate this concept to results in graph theory by showing that a set is admissible if and only if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771800
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Valuation of Sovereign Debt with Strategic Defaulting and Rescheduling
WESTPHALEN, Michael - Swiss Finance Institute - 2002
This paper provides a simple model of the rescheduling of debt following a sovereign default as a bond exchange. In case of default, the sovereign offers a new bond with lower coupon and principal.The debtors accept the offer if the value of the new bonds is higher than the proceedings of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771807