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Smile dynamics IV
Lorenzo Bergomi addresses the relationship between the smile that stochastic volatility models produce and the dynamics they generate for implied volatilities. He introduces a new quantity, the skew stickiness...
The flow of information in financial markets on future liquidity risk generates the rise and fall of demand for default-free bonds. Here, Dorje Brody and Robyn Friedman present an approach to pricing these...
The properties and analytical derivation of risk measures and their sensitivities to asset allocations is now established as an important issue for portfolio management and optimisation. This is particularly...
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A market model on the iTraxx
A market model for the dynamics of credit-risky baskets and indexes such as the iTraxx has long been sought, but because of difficulties with the natural numéraire has remained elusive. Here, Philippe Carpentier proposes using hedging arguments to develop...
Last option before the armageddon
Damiano Brigo and Massimo Morini show how the pricing of credit index options depends on the probability of a financial portfolio 'armageddon'. They introduce a new equivlent pricing measure that lays the foundation for a market model framework in multi-name...
Last option before the armageddon
Damiano Brigo and Massimo Morini show how the pricing of credit index options depends on the probability of a financial portfolio 'armageddon'. They introduce a new equivalent pricing measure that lays the foundation for a market model framework in multi-name...
Calibration of local stochastic volatility models to market smiles
Pierre Henry-Labordère introduces a new technique for calibrating local volatility extensions of arbitrary multi-factor stochastic volatility models to market smiles. Although approximate, this technique is both fast and accurate. The procedure is illustrated...
Credit spread shocks: how big and how often?
The second half of 2007 saw violent moves in credit spreads. In the fallout, there has been much discussion about how to estimate the probabilities of these severe events, but few conclusions have been obtained beyond the fact that historical data is...
Credit spread shocks: how big and how often?
The second half of 2007 saw violent moves in credit spreads. In the fallout, there has been much discussion about how to estimate the probabilities of these severe events, but few conclusions have been obtained beyond the fact that historical data is...
Stepping through Fourier space
Diverse finite-difference schemes for solving pricing problems with Levy underlyings appear in financial literature. Invariably, the integral and diffusive terms are treated asymmetrically, large jumps are truncated, and the methods are difficult to extend...
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