# All Questions

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### Is my demand prediction too low?

Hi i have a problem right now at work. For certian business segments,some sales target are establish each year. This targets are establish based on the managers feelings. Its like this: Manager: "so ...
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### Correlation: Use Price or Return? Return doesn't make sense [closed]

I am trying to find the correlation between the returns of two indices over a long period of time (10 years+) . Should I be using the index daily price level or the index daily total return? Most ...
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### Fama-French Factors for ETFs and MFs

Is there a public source or a paid service that provides FF3 (or FF4 = "Carhart") factor loadings for US traded ETFs and Mutual Funds? Something that is regularly updated and that provides comparable ...
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### Replicant portfolio with commissions (Jarrow Rudd)

I have created a Jarrow Rudd three for a call option that I know how to replicate with a portfolio. A replicating portfolio of a option works this way: At time 0 we form a replicating portfolio ...
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### Stochastic volatility

Suppose we have : $\frac{dS_{t}}{S_{t}}= \sigma dW_{t}$ with $\sigma_{t}$ a stochastic volatility process. How to compute $\mathbb{E}^{Q}[(S_{T}-K)+]$ ? Is there a BS alike formula : ...
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### Cubic spline interpolation in excel (yield curve from forward curve)

I have an excel spreadsheet that I'm trying to make sense of that uses the data from a forward curve to project a yield curve through the use of cubic spline interpolation. The sheet has 6 different ...
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### How to impose restriction on cointegrating vector in R, reproducible example

The code given below estimates a VEC model with 2 cointegrating vectors. It is a reproducible code, so just copy and paste into your R console (or script editor). ...
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### Bootstrap bond-implied default probabilities in MatLab?

Has anyone used MatLab to extract default probabilities from bond/fixed income prices? MatLab has some built in functionality to do this analysis with CDS ("cdsbootstrap"), but not bonds. Certainly ...