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### How to show that this weak scheme is a cubature scheme?

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### Measuring Behavioral Finance Effects in Fund/Portfolio Manager Analysis

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### Applicability of PCA to get historical volatilities to calibrate interest rates trees

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### Can we use White's reality check to compare two Sharpe ratios?

I read a paper from Ledoit and Wolf that proposes a method to compare two Sharpe ratios and a paper from White that proposes a method to compare $n$ trading rules. My question is: Can we use White's ...
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### Natural gas forward price modelling

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### Do intraday volume and volatility share the same properties?

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