In micro-lending markets, lack of recorded credit history is a significant impediment to assessing individual borrowers' creditworthiness and therefore deciding fair interest rates. This research compares various machine learning algorithms on real micro-lending data to test their efficacy at...

In this paper we analyze the impact of extraneous sources of information (viz. news and trade volume) on stock volatility by considering some augmented GARCH models. We suppose that trading volume can be considered as a proportional proxy for information arrivals to the market. Then we will...

In micro-lending markets, lack of recorded credit history is a significant impediment to assessing individual borrowers' creditworthiness and therefore deciding fair interest rates. This research compares various machine learning algorithms on real micro-lending data to test their efficacy at...

This study considers the risk management of insurance policies in line with the implementation of the new International Financial Reporting Standards 17. It applies the paid-incurred chain method to model the future unpaid losses by combining the information channels of both the incurred claims...

We apply a regime switching Markov chain model to determine bond prices. Our work builds upon the work of Thomas, Allen amp; Morkel-Kingsbury (2002) and Jarrow, Lando amp; Turnbull (1997). The interest rate process and credit rating migration process are considered. Our aim is to study the price...