Our paper forecasts the expected recovery rates of defaulted Italian mortgage loans backed by either residential or commercial real estate. We apply an exponential Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process to model the price dynamics at the provincial and regional level, and two haircut models to estimate...

We explain the evolution of the volatility market and present the infamous day of 'Volmageddon' as an insightful case study. Our survey focuses on the pricing and trading of volatility linked assets, highlighting the impact of mechanical hedging in markets for futures and higher-order...