Economic capital (ECap) modeling is a fundamental part of Pillar II of the Basel framework. Indeed, 'sophisticated' financial institutions need to have in place internal models for the assessment of the level of the overall capital buffer which is deemed sufficient to cover the risk of their...

This paper provides closed form lower and upper bounds for the price of European swaption on cross currency basis swap with the presence of dynamic basis spreads. Cross currency basis spreads are treated as integrals of spot spreads, approach familiar from interest rate models. The spot spread...

We analyse all Mini Flash Crashes (or Flash Equity Failures) in the US equity markets in the four most volatile months during 2006-2011. In contrast to previous studies, we find that Mini Flash Crashes are the result of regulation framework and market fragmentation, in particular due to the...