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One apparent reason for deferring a decision – abstaining from choosing, leaving the decision open to be taken by someone else, one’s later self, or nature – is for lack of sufficient confidence in the relevant beliefs. This paper develops an axiomatic theory of decision in situations...
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French Abstract: Le risque de défaut est le grand oublié de l'évaluation des actions. Nous démontrons dans cet article que son effet sur la valeur est pourtant plus important pour une action que pour une obligation.Pour ce faire nous nous basons sur un modèle à fonction d'intensité de...
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English Abstract: In this article we discuss the impact of financial debt on shareholder value using a new approach that aims: i) to explain the effect that leverage from debt has on a stock's systematic risk, or what we shall call here “the systematic cost of leverage,” and ii) to account...
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In this paper, we study the following models : Heath-Jarrow-Morton (1992) and Libor-Market- Model, also known as Brace-Gatarek-Musiela model (1997). We survey the extensions of these models and their representation in the Black and Scholes world. Our approach is pedagogical and is based on an...
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En recourant de plus en plus aux modèles à forme réduite, la théorie de l'évaluation du risque de crédit se distance de plus en plus de l'ingénierie financière traditionnelle qui donne la part belle aux modèles structurels. Bien qu'ils postulent l'absence d'arbitrage, les modèles à...
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Plusieurs gestionnaires de portefeuille pensent encore à tort qu’une couverture delta suffit pour protéger leur portefeuille contre les fluctuations des marchés financiers. Mais une augmentation marquée de la volatilité des cours boursiers les décevra dans leurs attentes. Après avoir...
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Monte Carlo simulation has an advantage upon the binomial tree as it can take into account the multidimensions of a problem. However it convergence speed is slower. In this article, we show how this method may be improved by various means: antithetic variables, control variates and low...
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In this paper, we simulate portfolios which aim to insure the invested capital. The object of our simulations is the duplication of the cashflows of strategies based on options. We initially show how to duplicate the cash-flows of a call by using a leveraged portfolio of stocks. After, we...
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Markets makers quote many option categories in terms of implicit volatility. In doing so, they can reactivate the Black and Scholes model which assumes that the volatility of an option underlying is constant while it is highly variable. First of all, this article, whose purpose is very...
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Le recours au coût historique et à des techniques d'allègement des bilans comme la titrisation permettent aux banques de disposer d'une marge de manoeuvre en matière comptable. Le développement des marchés financiers et l'orientation actuelle de l'IASC et du FASB en faveur de la juste...
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