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by Tigor
December 29th, 2004, 2:10 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Looking for papers of McCulloch, Shea & Vasicek Fong
Replies: 0
Views: 164639

Looking for papers of McCulloch, Shea & Vasicek Fong

Dear all,Just wonder if there are any pdf format of papers available on the internet of McCulloch (1975), Shea (1985) and Vasicek & Fong (1982) on term structure estimation.Thanks.
by Tigor
August 12th, 2003, 4:54 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Nelson-Siegel & Svensson (very basic quetions)
Replies: 1
Views: 189855

Nelson-Siegel & Svensson (very basic quetions)

<t>What can we derive from term structure estimated using parametric models such as NS or Svensson? Can we possibly identify the rich/cheap bonds based on those estimation? Can we tell that the implied forward rate is the market expectation for interest rates movement? For what period of time? Could...
by Tigor
July 4th, 2003, 6:43 am
Forum: The Quantitative Finance FAQs Project
Topic: What are copulas and how are they used in quantitative finance?
Replies: 85
Views: 356911

What are copulas and how are they used in quantitative finance?

<r>Hi Mr Melchiori,I've seen your message in contingencyanalysis.com which says that you have spreadsheets for bootstrapping and interpolating yield curve using linear and spline. I've tried to contact you at this email address: <EMAIL email="mrmelchi@ssdfe.com.ar">mrmelchi@ssdfe.com.ar</EMAIL>, how...
by Tigor
June 25th, 2003, 11:30 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Matlab Error Message
Replies: 3
Views: 189907

Matlab Error Message

<t>Thanks Matt to point out my carelessness. That were mistakes on that two dates. It might be a Y2K related issues, even though it shouldn't since I use Win2k as well as Office 2000 that both should be Y2K compliance already. Anyway, after I corrected those dates I still got those error messages wh...
by Tigor
June 25th, 2003, 7:59 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Matlab Error Message
Replies: 3
Views: 189907

Matlab Error Message

<t>I was using the method as appeared in this link Fixed-Income Toolboxto do bootstrapping current Canadian government bonds. However, MatLab has found errors which I don't really understand.Below is what I did in MatLab's command window:» Bonds = [datenum('09/01/2003') 0.0525 100;datenum('10/01/200...
by Tigor
April 1st, 2003, 3:54 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: How to Setting Counterparty Limit?
Replies: 3
Views: 189800

How to Setting Counterparty Limit?

<t>Anybody knows how to set counterparty limits for money market placement (eg. time deposit), foreign exchange transaction, bonds and interest rate derivatives (IRS, FRAs, Option & futures)? Should it be done by combining all risks involved in any transaction (eg. market, credit & liquidity...
by Tigor
March 27th, 2003, 7:54 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: "Rolling Down the Yield Curve"
Replies: 34
Views: 194688

"Rolling Down the Yield Curve"

Trader,Could you send me those papers, please.My email is: stigor@bi.go.idRegards,Tigor
by Tigor
March 25th, 2003, 7:17 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Yield Curve Interpolation
Replies: 44
Views: 207636

Yield Curve Interpolation

mrbadguy,It seems that the file (Adams.zip) contains error. It can't be extracted. The message was that the file seems to be invalid file. Could you resend it again?
by Tigor
March 14th, 2003, 8:28 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Yield Curve Interpolation
Replies: 44
Views: 207636

Yield Curve Interpolation

Hi Kane, Could you send them to me too?My email is stigor@bi.go.idThanks a lot.