The United Nations Broadband Commission has committed the international community to accelerate universal broadband, but the cost of meeting these objectives in the context of rapid technological change are not well understood. Using scenario analysis, this paper compares the global...

There has been a concerted effort in recent years to undertake more strategic, long-term, and cross-sector assessment of national infrastructure. This paper reflects on the assessment of fixed broadband within the recent National Needs Assessment, which aims to identify options for meeting the...

There has been a concerted effort in recent years to undertake more strategic, long-term, and cross-sector assessment of national infrastructure. This paper reflects on the assessment of fixed broadband within the recent National Needs Assessment, which aims to identify options for meeting the...

The United Nations Broadband Commission has committed the international community to accelerate universal broadband, but the cost of meeting these objectives in the context of rapid technological change are not well understood. Using scenario analysis, this paper compares the global...

Reading about OIS discounting in the financial press in recent months, it is hard to avoid the following impression: interest rate modeling for vanilla instruments was simple and well understood before the credit crisis of 2008; since the crisis, everything needs to be rethought from first...

Modern quantitative finance must address the management of portfolio-level risk, whether computing capital requirements, measuring the cost of counterparty risk (CVA) or its mitigation via collateralization (FVA) or hedging. Such calculations rest on modeling a range of risk factors, across...