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by montpelier
July 5th, 2007, 6:09 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Correlation Assumption for FTDs
Replies: 14
Views: 72464

Correlation Assumption for FTDs

So not standardized in the CDX, iTraxx sense then?
by montpelier
July 5th, 2007, 1:17 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Correlation Assumption for FTDs
Replies: 14
Views: 72464

Correlation Assumption for FTDs

A pointer to info on the standardized FTDs would be much appreciated.
by montpelier
May 17th, 2007, 11:23 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: subtle idea
Replies: 11
Views: 74103

subtle idea

<t>Correction, two papers, neither by Grandmont: "Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in an N Commodity World", R. Guesnerie, 1986 and "Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Finance Constrained Economy", M. Woodford, 1986. The Grandmont paper in that volume is "Stability of Cycles and Expectations". Was all ...
by montpelier
May 17th, 2007, 11:17 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: subtle idea
Replies: 11
Views: 74103

subtle idea

The book with that title contains a great paper by Grandmont with the catchy title of "Stationary sunspot equilibria" or something like that which I think is pretty much what you're looking for.
by montpelier
May 4th, 2007, 1:38 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: subtle idea
Replies: 11
Views: 74103

subtle idea

Type "nonlinear economic dynamics" into google ...
by montpelier
October 31st, 2006, 8:25 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Open-source computer algebra systems
Replies: 9
Views: 90753

Open-source computer algebra systems

Hmm ... except that Maxima is a mix of C and Lisp ...
by montpelier
September 15th, 2006, 7:12 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Galapagos CDO optimizer
Replies: 3
Views: 94488

Galapagos CDO optimizer

<t>Full disclosure: I work for Codefarm ...Galapagos CDO Structurer currently supports S&P CDO Evaluator 2.4.3, 3.1 and 3.2 and Moody's CDORom 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. Depending on the sophistication of the arranger's existing techniques I'd expect Galapagos to produce equivalent or better tranche spre...
by montpelier
August 5th, 2006, 8:29 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Quantifi Toolkit ... info and experience reports wanted
Replies: 0
Views: 96439

Quantifi Toolkit ... info and experience reports wanted

<t>I'd be very interested in hearing anything people have to say about the Quantifi Toolkit, in particular,* Comprehensiveness wrt CDO/CDO^2/CDO^2+ABS pricing, synthetic vs. cashflow.* Comprehensiveness wrt base correlation: computing curves from index data; interpolation methods; expected loss mapp...