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Mortgage-backed securities

This paper reviews the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market, with a particular emphasis on agency residential MBS in the United States. We discuss the institutional environment, security design, MBS risks and asset pricing, and the economic effects of m ...

Edward Elgar2023

Self-Exciting Point Processes: Identification and Control

Michael Mark

This thesis addresses theoretical and practical aspects of identification and subsequent control of self-exciting point processes. The main contributions correspond to four separate scientific papers. In the first paper, we address the challenge of robust ...

EPFL2022

Trading mechanisms in over-the-counter markets

Sebastian Vogel

In the chapter ``When to Introduce Electronic Trading Platforms in Over-the-Counter Markets?'' An equilibrium in a market is determined in which traders have the choice between using an electronic platform with a request-for-quote protocol or calling a dea ...

EPFL2020

Market Structure and Transaction Costs of Index CDSs

Pierre Collin Dufresne, Jan Benjamin Junge

Despite regulatory efforts to promote all-to-all trading, the post-Dodd-Frank index credit default swap market remains two-tiered. Transaction costs are higher for dealer-to-client than interdealer trades, but the difference is explained by the higher, lar ...

WILEY2020

High-Frequency Jump Analysis of the Bitcoin Market

Christopher Trevisan, Adrien Treccani

We use the database leak of Mt. Gox exchange to analyze the dynamics of the price of bitcoin from June 2011 to November 2013. This gives us a rare opportunity to study an emerging retail-focused, highly speculative and unregulated market with trader identi ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Three Essays on Predictability and Seasonality in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Vincent Jean Bogousslavsky

This thesis examines predictability and seasonality in the cross-section of stock returns. The first chapter, titled ``Infrequent Rebalancing, Return Autocorrelation, and Seasonality,'' shows that a model of infrequent rebalancing can explain specific pred ...

EPFL2017

Three Essays on Corporate Disclosure

Evgeny Petrov

Corporate disclosure is the most important source of information about the firm for the outside investors. While some disclosure of public firms is mandated by regulation, firm managers can provide extra information at their discretion by making voluntary ...

EPFL2017

Inventory dynamics in process industries: An empirical investigation

Ralf Seifert, Philipp Urs Moser, Olov Isaksson

Process industry firms have thrived in recent decades, but changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In this context, inventory management is increasingly viewed as an essential lever for creating a sustainable com ...

Elsevier2017

Infrequent Rebalancing, Return Autocorrelation, and Seasonality

Vincent Jean Bogousslavsky

A model of infrequent rebalancing can explain specific predictability patterns in the time series and cross-section of stock returns. First, infrequent rebalancing produces return autocorrelations that are consistent with empirical evidence from intraday r ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Multi-Period Portfolio Optimization: Translation of Autocorrelation Risk to Excess Variance

Napat Rujeerapaiboon, Byung-Geun Choi

Growth-optimal portfolios are guaranteed to accumulate higher wealth than any other investment strategy in the long run. However, they tend to be risky in the short term. For serially uncorrelated markets, similar portfolios with more robust guarantees hav ...

2016

Origin of the Spectral Shifts among the Early Intermediates of the Rhodopsin Photocycle

Ursula Röthlisberger, Ivano Tavernelli, Pablo Campomanes Ramos, Marilisa Neri, Stefano Vanni, Bruno Araujo Cautiero Horta

A combined strategy based on the computation of absorption energies, using the ZINDO/S semiempirical method, for a statistically relevant number of thermally sampled configurations extracted from QM/MM trajectories is used to establish a one-to-one corresp ...

2014

An Algorithm for Testing the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Ioana Andreea Boboc

The objective of this research is to examine the efficiency of EUR/USD market through the application of a trading system. The system uses a genetic algorithm based on technical analysis indicators such as Exponential Moving Average (EMA), Moving Average C ...

Public Library of Science2013

Portfolio construction under information asymmetry

Lionel Coulot

We introduce in this thesis the idea of a variable lookback model, i.e., a model whose predictions are based on a variable portion of the information set. We verify the intuition of this model in the context of experimental finance. We also propose a novel ...

EPFL2013

Demystifying Rational Financial Decision-Making : Insights from Neurofinance

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

Is the human brain wired for wealth? The setting is the high-velocity financial environment. Undoubtedly, the development of sophisticated derivative instruments has improved the allocation of risk across economies, highlighting the nexus between banking a ...

EPFL2011

Exploring the Nature of "Trader Intuition"

Experimental evidence has consistently confirmed the ability of uninformed traders, even novices, to infer information from the trading process. After contrasting brain activation in subjects watching markets with and without insiders, we hypothesize that ...

2010

Mutual fund portfolio choice in the presence of dynamic ﬂows

Julien Hugonnier

We analyze the implications of dynamic flows on a mutual fund's portfolio decisions. In our model, myopic investors dynamically allocate capital between a riskless asset and an actively managed fund which charges fraction-of-fund fees. The presence of dyna ...

2010

Does information drive trading in option strategies?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We study trading in option strategies in the FTSE-100 index market. Trades in option strategies represent around 37% of the total number of trades and over 75% of the total trading volume in our sample. We find some evidence that order flow in volatility-s ...

Elsevier2010