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Recommendation for a book on CVA/Credit Risk and PD/LGD/EAD modeling?
I need suggestions for some good books on the following topics:
Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) / Credit Risk
Probability of Default / Loss-Given-Default / Exposure-At-Default modeling
Any pointers ...
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Multiple comparison problems
I recently read a blog entry where some statistics were generated for a common technical analysis indicator. Below is the link. My question shows up close to the bottom under the name bill_080, in ...
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Predicting Price Movements on a Betting Exchange
On a betting exchange the price (the odds that an event will happen expressed as a decimal, 1/(percentage chance event occurring) of a runner can experience a great deal of volatility before the event ...
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Simple model for option premium (for covered call simulation)?
Given a historical distribution of weekly prices and price changes for a stock, how can I estimate the the option premium for a nearly at-the-money (ATM) option, say with an expiration date 3 months ...
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How useful is Markov chain Monte Carlo for quantitative finance?
Naively, it seems that Bayesian modeling, structural models particularly, would be quite useful in finance because of their ability to incorporate market idiosyncrasies and produce accurate ...