Market risk management is one of the key factors to success in managing financial institutions. Underestimated risk can have desastrous consequences for individual companies and even whole economies, not least as could be seen during the recent crises. Overestimated risk, on the other side, may...

Market risk management is one of the key factors to success in managing financial institutions. Underestimated risk can have desastrous consequences for individual companies and even whole economies, not least as could be seen during the recent crises. Overestimated risk, on the other side, may...

We calibrate Markov regime-switching (MRS) models to spot (log-)prices from two major power markets. We show that while the price-capped (or truncated) spike distributions do not give any advantage over the standard specification in case of moderately spiky markets (such as NEPOOL), they improve...

In this paper, we use joint and conditional distributions of order statistics from a trivariate normal distribution to obtain closed expressions for reliability measures such as mean residual lifetime for systems with three dependent components with normal lifetimes.

This study develops a truncated Gram–Charlier expansion (TGCE) option pricing model, which simultaneously considers the skewness, kurtosis and essentially truncated (bounded) interval in the underlying asset return. In addition to TGCE, a truncated Black–Scholes model is proposed also. The...