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by climber
December 17th, 2008, 2:41 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Errata for "Financial modelling with Jump Processes"
Replies: 5
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Errata for "Financial modelling with Jump Processes"

I could not find this in the errata on the website. I think the equation on page 322 below formula 10.7 (Merton jump-diffusion model) shoud be, not
by climber
June 28th, 2008, 4:41 pm
Forum: Brainteaser Forum
Topic: How many marathon runners?
Replies: 28
Views: 64945

How many marathon runners?

Probability of observing maximum value x in k-element sample:MLE: find such N, so that this probability is maximized given x. This leads to solution equal to x (probability is decreasing in N).
by climber
October 2nd, 2007, 2:40 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: average price options in commodity markets
Replies: 4
Views: 67139

average price options in commodity markets

<t>LCH Tapo model is consistent with Levy (log-normal moment matching). There are two ways to go when pricing Asian options within the averaging period (at least within this framework):1) Adjust the strike and treat this as a "new" option.2) Incorporate the correction for the fixed portion of the av...
by climber
April 4th, 2006, 2:46 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD models
Replies: 6
Views: 115575

LGD models

by climber
April 4th, 2006, 2:34 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: LGD models
Replies: 6
Views: 115575

LGD models

<t>Problem is that for retail credits the recoveries are absolutely not beta distributed. There are usually two peaks, near zero and near one. Very hard to use a regression technique for such a distribution! So difficult to calculate confidence intervals, ...I would not call myself an expert in the ...