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What Happened to Currency Fixings?
This article explores the manipulations of currency fixings and how the fixing production has been reshaped.
Volatility Voodoo
In this article, Kent Osband discusses volatility models.
Stochastic Processes in Finance - Part II
This is the second article by Jörg Kienitz on stochastic processes in finance.
An Asymptotic FX Option Formula in the Cross Currency Libor Market Model
In this article, Atsushu Kawai and Peter Jäckel introduce analytic approximation formulae for FX options in the Libor market model (LMM). The method to derive the formulae is an asymptotic expansion technique introduced in Kawai [Kaw03].
Building Your Wings on the Way Down
Aaron Brown discusses financial risk in this article from Wilmott Magazine.
A Generalised Procedure for Locating the Optimal Capital Structure
This article presents a generalisation of an earlier approach for determining and locating the optimal capital structure of a corporate firm.
Stochastic Processes in Finance - Part I
This Wilmott article by Jörg Kienitz covers the key concepts of the theory of stochastic processes used in finance.
It’s the Debt, Stupid
Increasingly, Bogni feels, at least at a personal level, forced into the role of defender of financial innovation against the hordes of financial luddites. Interestingly, the turning point was not the equity-fuelled dotcom bubble at the turn of the millennium, but the debt bubble that finally burst with the Lehman Brothers debacle.
The End of Growth?
In this article published by the Wilmott magazine, former banker and author, Satyajit Das, asks if this is the end of economic growth and what a world of no, or low rates of, growth will look like.
Potential Future Exposure Calculations Using the BGM Model
Within this paper the authors look at the BGM model in PFE calculations for various exotic interest rate products.