Technical paper/Modelling
Cutting Edge introduction: Computation, computation, computation
Computation, computation, computation
Applied risk management series: modelling spreads in energy markets
Implications for valuation and risk management of spread options
Cutting Edge introduction: requiem for a probabilist
Requiem for a probabilist
A practical anatomy of IRC modelling
Research Papers
Empirical performance of loss given default prediction models
Research Papers
Risky funding with counterparty and liquidity charges
Risky funding with counterparty and liquidity charges
Variable selection in default risk models
Research Papers
Cutting edge technical: Carbon derivatives pricing
Carbon derivatives pricing: an arbitrageable market
Cutting Edge: Pure jump models for energy prices
Université de Lausanne’s Roberto Marfè investigates pure jump processes as modelling blocks for the distributions of energy returns under the pricing measure. An easy-to-implement option-implied approach is outlined, which circumvents most of the…
Model selection for loss reserves: The Growing Triangle technique
Technical papers
Time for multi-period capital models
Several financial institutions use single-period models to determine their credit portfolio loss distribution, calculate their loss volatility and assign economic capital.
Generalising universal performance measures
Performance and risk measurement are fundamental quantitative activities in finance, andnew ways of measuring them are always of interest. A recently proposed procedure is theuniversal performance measure. Theofanis Darsinos and Stephen Satchell show…
The score for credit
Jorge Sobehart and Sean Keenan discuss the benefits and limitations of model performance measures for default and credit spread prediction, and highlight several common pitfalls in the model comparison found in the literature and vendor documentation. To…
Asian basket spreads and other exotic averaging options
Giuseppe Castellacci and Michael Siclari of OpenLink introduce a class of exotic options that simultaneously generalises both Asian and basket options. They develop approximate analytic models for real-time pricing of complex instruments that average…
A decision model for selling park and loan services
The park and loan model is useful for gas storages and pipelines. The concept can be applied to many ‘when to sell’-type decisions. Here, Huagang ‘Hugh’ Li considers selling park and loan services as a financial and statistical decision on revenue and…