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How to the compute the formula of Kendall's tau (please see this formula)

I am trying to compute the kendall's tau, but when facing the formula below, I don't know why the second line is this. Could anybody help me to interpret the reason to me? Thanks very much!
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Volatility clustering but (G)ARCH not good fit

I'm looking at a time series that appears to be white noise. The ACF/PACF are in the test bounds. Applying the Ljung-Box test for various (maximum) lags gives me high p-values (i. e. I cannot reject ...
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Transform the American cash-or-nothing call into a linear complementarity problem for the diffusion equation

Transform the American cash-or-nothing call into a linear complementarity problem for the diffusion equation and show that the transformed payoff is g(x,τ) = be^[(1/2)((k+1)^2)τ+(1/2)(k−1)x]H(x), ￼￼ ...
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Why is that maximizing stock value, under uncertainty, is a better option than maximizing profits?

I've been trying to access the papers that state that kind of problem, but most of them need payment for access and I am on a student budget. I know that maximizing profits=maximizing stock value in ...
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Price of portfolio with target volatility

Consider the following: We have two assets, S1 and S2, and with each asset is associated a volatility, v1 and v2, respectively. Now let's say v1 < v2, and we want to create a portfolio of S2 and ...
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Credit Spread - pricing Option and Fixed Income

hi how do you handle credit spread 1. For Option with Equity underlying 2. For Fixed Income/Bond I understand there're two options: a. Expected Loss from Probability of Default & Recovery Rate ...
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Convexity of Portfolio Containing Eurodollar Future and Forward Rate Agreement

Assume an individual is a buyer, i.e., long, of one Forward Rate Agreement and a seller, i.e., short, of one Eurodollar Futures contract. Does the collective portfolio have positive or negative ...
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Question about allocating value among different class in capital structure

I come across a task regarding alloation of value among different class in capital structure. I took reference from ...
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America option early exercice boundary via Monte Carlo simulation

I am trying to calculate an american option price via the simulation of the early exercise boundary using the method presented in this document: Monte Carlo Method For pricing a put Option. I have ...
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Sketching payoff diagrams- Straddle and Butterfly (when t tends to 0)

I want to sketch a straddle and a butterfly payoff diagram when t tends to 0. I have searched and have been able to sketch both a butterfly and straddle diagram but fail to proceed when t tends to 0. ...
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Calculating the VaR from a GARCH(1,1) with Student-t innovations

I'm self-studying several questions on Ruey S. Tsay's teaching page. I'm experiencing some difficulty getting the correct answer for final exam 2013 Problem B Question 3. Given a Student-t GARCH ...
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Nominative financial datas

For a study I am looking for financial datas about trades in double auction markets. It would typically be transaction history containing the name of the participant (buyers and sellers) and the ...
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Where can I find ADF library in c#

Where could I find an ADF library or source code in c# for cointegration test?
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calculation of parameters in Stochastic Volatility

I want to compare volatility models from constant volatility, implied, time-varying (ARCH, etc) and stochastic volatility. I can find the process to calculate constant, implied and ARCH and GARCH ...
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Stochastic Volatility for Stocks, FTSE

Can someone help me with calculating Stochastic Volatility (of stocks and options) using SAS or R or Matlab please? I am new to SAS and I am trying to use Heston model, White-Hull model or any other ...
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how to obtain the optimum debt-equity ratio while maintaining a minimum debt service coverage ratio of 1.1

the assumptions are -that the NOI for year 0 is 6500000 -loan term is 8 years and issued at a fixed rate of 3% + libor (in 2008) -equity yield is 15%
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Conversion of quarterly growth rate to annual growth rate

If a macro data like Consumer Price Index or Real GDP growth rate is expressed in quarterly year-on-year basis. Anyway to get precise annual growth without using approximations? For example: Cars ...
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Regulatory Capital Formula under Basel III?

Does anyone know where can I find the exact formula of the regulatory capital charge under Basel III ? (including the VaR, the SVaR, the IRC and two other components I don't remember...) I have been ...
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Multi-Factor Models Application

I am trying to use what I learned about multi-Factor Models to apply to some questions: Suppose investing 80% in Portfolio A -100% in Portfolio B 20% in risk free asset If $\hat{F_1}$, denoted by ...
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How to drive simple european put price under Gabillon 2-factor model?

Can someone explain to me for a Simple European Put payoff P(S,T) = max(K-S,0)), how to get simulation and calibration models using analytical approaches, binomial and trinomial trees, multi-factor ...
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Real returns vs. inflation as an independent variable

Assume a model like this, basically explaining stock market returns with a bunch of stuff: ...
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PCA related Query

I am currently working on a project in grad school where I am using PCA Approach. I have 4 stocks. I used R to generate Eigen Values, Eigen vectors Eigen Values Number Value Diff ...
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full tick and retail tick data feed difference

Full tick institutional data feed like elektron from reuters, how is it different from retail tick data feed & which charting softwares work with elektron data feed
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Engle Granger test returns a 0 in matlab, while correlation factor is .80+. Am I doing something wrong?

Engle Granger test is giving me a ans = 0. The correlation factor is: 0.8+ Does this imply the No cointegration hypothesis is true? i.e. as per my understanding that there is cointegration? I am ...
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Significance of Data

The following is a result I get from a pair trading model. I am trying to figure out the significance of the below but failing. Can someone help me out i.e. a resource or possibly an explanation on ...
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Java Implied Volatility Solving

After using RQuantLib and RCaller from Java I am desiring a bit more speed on my implied volatility calculations (for anyone who has used this knows it is quite slow). I need to price a large number ...
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What are the theta and vega of a forward starting plain vanilla european option with no dividend?

I am reading through Hull's book asking myself this question to understand exotics. I currently believe that theta should equal 0 until the forward start time, $t_*$, if the call pays no dividends. ...
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modelling with Meixner process

I failed to evaluate the integral of v(x)e^x over real numbers (i.e, from -infinite to +infinite) with respect to dx where v(x)=2d exp(2(pi+b)x/a)/abs(x)(1-exp(2pi.x/a)) for x<0 and v(x)=2d ...
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EMM in incomplete markets

The simply put question is as follows: do we need to restrict ourselves to EMM exclusively when pricing European contingent claims (=option payoffs) even if markets are incomplete? In particular, a ...
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Downloading Quotes in CSV format from Yahoo Finance - Beta symbol?

By using http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=STOCKNAME&f=I am able to download a CSV file, does anyone know what the symbol for beta is? It should go after ...
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How to calculate tail exposure on a multi-product position

Let's say I have a position vector across five products: Positions <- c(40,-45,20,-32,17) How can I determine the "tail" exposure if my PCA model gives me the following loadings for the first ...
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What are some different methods for calculating hedge ratios for multiple leg spreads?

I am looking for many different ways of doing this, and I want to compare the results I get among the different choices. I am going to be using close-to-close change data. Thanks.
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Log returns vs. prices

I am currently working on a stat arb that is giving me a little bit of trouble. I'm under the impression that most stat arbs are going to use prices such that we can choose a ratio N such that: Price ...
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Stock Price Question

Can anyone show me how to answer this please? A stock has beta of 2.0 and stock specific daily volatility of 0.04. Suppose that yesterday’s closing price was 95 and today the market goes up by 3%. ...
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Rational expectation meaning

What does rational expectation (RE) mean in agent-based modeling context? What are the relationships between RE and expectation and outcome?
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BS Implied Volatility under Normal returns

If I use theoretical prices under a normal valuation model, and I estimate their implied volatility using BLACK SCHOLES implied volatility, do I'll get corresponding log normal volatility?
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Fair interest of mortgages

May be a stupid question, but I don't know the answer. Suppose someone asking me money for a mortgage for buying something. If I know the chance (mean value of payments and variance of payments) that ...