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Publication year: 2010Source: Journal of Financial Economics, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 January 2010Francis A., LongstaffI conduct an empirical investigation into the pricing of subprime asset-backed collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and their contagion effects on other markets. Using data for the ABX subprime indexes, I find strong evidence of contagion in the [...]

Jan 31st, 2010 | Filed under Journal of Financial Economics
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One good explanation for the sustained downturn we recently had these past few days is the “bull flag” breakout in the US dollar. During most of 2009 when the market was rallying, the US dollar did not break its 20-day upper bollinger band once until November, and did not make several closes above it [...]

Jan 31st, 2010 | Filed under Trading

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Jan 31st, 2010 | Filed under Trading

Volopta is a site I came across yesterday, it contains free C++, Matlab, and VBA code for derivatives pricing. Derivatives categories include equity options, options on bonds, swaps, swaptions, options on futures, variance swaps, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, volatility models, etc.At the moment the files uploaded are only a few, which is [...]

Jan 31st, 2010 | Filed under Software

1, On the Heston Model with Stochastic Interest Rates, “We discuss the Heston [Heston-1993] model with stochastic interest rates driven by Hull-White [Hull,White-1996] (HW) or Cox-Ingersoll-Ross [Cox, et al.-1985] (CIR) processes. A so-called volatility compensator is defined which guarantees that the Heston hybrid model with a non-zero correlation between the equity and interest rate [...]

Jan 31st, 2010 | Filed under Software