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This dissertation is comprised of two related tracts: (i) Quantitative Modeling and (ii) Analysis of Asset Flow Differential Equations. In the former a data set of over 100,000 daily closed-end fund prices is analyzed using mixed-effects regressions with the objective of understanding price...
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Overreactions and other behavioral effects in stock prices can best be examined by adjusting for the changes in fundamentals. We perform this by subtracting the relative price changes in the net asset value (NAV) from that of market price (MP) daily for a large set of closed-end funds trading in...
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This paper takes a simple life insurance product that pays a benefit upon the death of a person and looks at two separate ways of setting the price, or premium, for the product. The premium is collected only once; on the date that the product is purchased. The first method of pricing uses the...
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finance. After reviewing a mathematical theory on commonfactors, also known as principal components, we compute empirical …
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learning statistics and gives a brief history of mathematics and statistics. He then explains that insurance made the modern …
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In the second chapter, we investigate the existence of a competitive equilibrium in a deterministic intertemporal economy with infinitely many consumers when the aggregate wealth is restricted to be finite. After we show the existence we discuss the efficiency of the equilibrium in relation with...
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In recent years leading-edge financial institutions routinely use advanced analytical and numerical techniques from science and engineering to create, deploy, and manage new financial instruments. The proliferation and complexity of the available financial instruments in conjunction with the...
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economics and financial applications. While studying the uniform properness of certain separable utility functions, we dispose … the reader with an overview of the modern literature on equilibrium theory. In particular, we highlight one interesting … self-consistent. Finally, we apply the theory developed throughout the rest of the thesis to establish necessary and …
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We consider some problems in the stochastic portfolio theory of equity markets. In the first part, we maximize the … an infinite market in the second part, and extend the relative arbitrage theory of equity markets to a market which … and the small stocks have relatively larger return. We apply the stochastic portfolio theory to study the structure and …
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Forecasting volatility has held the attention of academics and practitioners all over the world. The objective for this master's thesis is to predict the volatility in stock market by using generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity(GARCH) methodology. A detailed explanation of...
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