# All Questions

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### Calibration of Dothan Model to Yields

For both the Vasicek and CIR model the yields $R(t,T)$ and short rates $r_t$ have an affine relationship: $$R(t,T) = \frac{B(t,T)r_t - A(t,T)}{T-t},$$ where $A(t,T)$ and $B(t,T)$ are determined by ...
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### Building Equally Weighted portfolio

Given $m$ daily returns $[R_i]_j$ for $n$ different assets (indexed by $j$), to retrieve this n-asset portfolio return as an equally weighted one do I: 1) compute $n$-times the average for each ...
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### Investment Grade Bond vs Junk Bond, whose duration is larger?

Just wondering how to calculate duration when take credit risk into consideration. I think if duration is calculated as weighted average of cashflow time, and weights are calculated using present ...
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### Non-parametric estimator - CVAR / Expected shortfall

Is the estimation of the CVAR using known non-parametric methods (histogram , kernels) is different than the estimation of any other R.V.? If the answer is yes, then I am interested to know whether ...
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### Coupled Black-Scholes equations

Could someone provide me some information about the modelling of several options at the same time by using Black-Scholes (probably coupled) equations? Specifically I am wondering if in finance one has ...
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### VAR(1) - GARCH(1,1) model estimation in R

Can someone please help in explaining the steps involved to estimate the parameters of VAR(1)-GARCH(1,1) model of Mcaleer 2003 in r. It is a multivariate GARCH model where the mean equation is ...
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### Finding metal price data from LME

Does anyone know any sites that allows you to download free historical monthly metal (copper and aluminium) price data, the best would be LME data. I need historical spot prices, inventory, ...
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### Intuition behind Fama-French factors

In the Fama-French 3-factor model the portfolio returns are explained by the market the SMB factor (Small [market capitalization] Minus Big) and the HML factor (High [book-to-market ratio] Minus ...
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### Stress Testing of the portfolio containing Equities, Bonds and Options

I have a portfolio containing equities, bonds and options for which I have calculated VAR through variance covariance matrix. No I want to calculate the stressed VAR for which I have adopted the ...
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### Whence Does This Term Come From

I am reading this paper which utilizes the heat kernel expansion. But I do not understand the equation for $dY_t$ on page 12, particularly the appearance of the term $\eta'$ which I suppose denotes ...
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### How do Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund mark-to-mark structured notes?

Structured notes are not actively traded. Actually some of them are not traded at all as they are intended to be held-to-maturity. 1.When Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund buy structured notes, how do they ...
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### European Markovian option

Background information: Consider a European contingent claim with payoff $V(S_T)$, where $V: \mathbb{R}_+\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a function which assigns a value to the payoff based on the price of ...
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### Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R?

Is it possible to download stock-data countrywise with quantmod package for R ? Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to download equities countrywise. Let's say i want all data from the Finnish ...
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### Payoff of a butterfly c++

I would like to price options (call, put,, butterfly) with monte-carlo method, but actually I need the expression of the butterflay payoff; Could you ^please help me !
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### How is this financial product called?

I have only basic limited knowledge about financial derivatives and I did not find exactly what I was searching for. I found open end turbo call, knock outs, but I am searching for this: Underlying ...