Asset Management

Credit Derivatives

Non-Gaussianity

http://www.math.ryerson.ca/ramlab/reports.html  (Market Risk, Incomplete Markets)

 

 

 

 


Asset Management 

 

Portfolio Optimization when assets have the gaussian mixture distribution.

·         Authors: I. Buckley, G. Comezana, B. Djerroud, L. Seco.  

·         Proceedings of the Mercado de Futuros, Madrid 2002. View PDF

 

Distressed considerations in the construction of hedge fund portfolios.

·         Canadian Hedge Watch, June 2002. View PDF

 

The Brennan-Schwartz context for asset allocation.

·         Author: Nigel Hernandez.

·         Master's thesis. 2000 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF

 


Credit Derivatives

 

Review of CDOs Pricing Models..

·         Author: Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco.

·         Working Paper. 2005. View pdf.

 

Dependences Structures and the Pricing CDOs..

·         Author: Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco.

·         Working Paper. 2005. View Presentation.

 

Valuation of Collateralized Fund Obligation.

·         Author: Unai Ansejo, Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco.

·         Working Paper. 2004

 

Defaultable Forward Contracts. 

·         Author: Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco.

·         Working Paper. 2004. View PDF.

 

Pricing nth dimensional Barrier Derivatives.

·         Author: Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco.

·         Submitted to the Journal of Mathematical Finance. 2004.  View PDF (Abstract)

 

Pricing credit derivatives and credit risk. 

·         Author: Ed Watson

·         Master's thesis. 2000 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto.  View PDF

 

 


Non-Gaussianity

 

New families of distributions fitting L-moments for modeling financial data.

·         Authors: S. Carrillo and N. Hernandez, L. Seco.   

·         Submitted to    .2003. View PDF.

 

A theoretical comparison between moments and L-moments.

·         Authors: S. Carrillo and N. Hernandez, L. Seco.   

·         Submitted to    .2003. View PDF 

 

Stable distribution: A survey on simulation and calibration methodologies.

·         Authors: P. Olivares, L. Seco.   

·         Technical Report , 2003. View PDF 

 

Estimating the spectral measure of a multivariate stable distribution via spherical harmonic analysis.

·         Authors: M. Pivato, L. Seco  

·         Publication 2003. View PDF

 

Nongaussian Multivariate Simulations in Mark-to-Future calculations.

·         Authors: O. Criossant, G. Comezana, M. Escobar, P. Fernandez, N. Hernandez, L. Seco

·         Proceedings of the Mercado de Futuros, Madrid 2002.  View PDF

 

Applications of descriptive measures in Risk Management.

·         Author: Nicolas Hernandez

·         Ph.D. thesis. 2002 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF

 

Measures of dependence for multivariate Levy distributions.

·         Authors: J. Bolland, T. Hurd and M. Pivato, L. Seco

·         Disordered and Complex Systems, edited by P. Sollich et al. American Institute of Physics. 2001. View PDF

 

Analytical methods for multivariate stable probability distributions.

·         Author: Marcus Pivato

·         Ph.D. thesis. 2001 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF

 

Non-Gaussian Univariate Distributions.

·         Author: Nicolas Hernandez and Luis Seco

·         RiskLab - AlgoReserachQuaterly, Jan 2000. View PDF

 

  

Market Risk

 

Principal component Value-at-Risk (2001)

·         Authors: R. Brummelhuis, A. Cordoba, M. Quintanilla, L. Seco

·         Journal of Mathematical Finance (2001), Vol 12 (1), 23-43. View PDF

 

Principal component Value-at-Risk (2000)

·         Authors: R. Brummelhuis, A. Cordoba, M. Quintanilla, L. Seco

·         International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol 3,
number 3 (2000), pp 541-545.
View PDF

 

Harmonic Analysis in Value at Risk Calculations, 

·         Authors: Claudio Albanese and Luis Seco

·         Publication. 2000 View PDF

 

Modelling and Estimation of Financial Time Series. Non-Gaussian ARMA models.

·         Authors: Nicolas Hernandez, Marcos Escobar and Luis Seco

·         Technical Report, 2000.  View ps

 

Extreme Value Theory techniques for scenario generation.

·         Authors: S. Carillo, M. Escobar, P. Fernández, G. Comezañas, N. Hernández, L. Seco 

·         Technical Report. 2000. View PDF

 

Gaussian Processes for Financial Time Series, a C++ Implementation,.

·         Authors: Sebastian Ferrando and Massimo Pascazi. RiskLab and Ryerson Polytechnic University.

·         Technical Report, 1999. View PDF

 

Viscosity solutions for non-linear degenerate partial differential equations and some of its applications.

·         Auhtor: Yi Zhan.

·         Ph.D. thesis. 1999 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF

 

Asymptotic Expansion for Value at Risk.

·         Author: Maite Quintanilla.   

·         Master's thesis 1998 .Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF

 

 

Incomplete Markets

 

Mathematical Problems in the Theory of Incomplete Markets.

·         Author: David Saunders.

·         Ph.D. thesis. 2001 - Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View ps

 

Applications of Optimization to Mathematical Finance.

·         Author: Dave Saunders. 

·         Master's thesis 1998. Department of Mathematics. University of Toronto. View PDF