Archives for LFIN
October 17, 2018
Finance Seminar
Bengt Holmström (Nobel Laureate)
TBA
Bengt Holmström (Nobel Laureate)
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Finance Seminar
Finance Seminar: Anh Le
Joint CORE-FIN seminar
The Structure of Risks in Equilibrium Affine Models of Bond Yields
Anh Le, Penn State
Equilibrium affine term structure models (ETSMs) typically imply that expected excess returns on bonds are determined entirely as an affine function of the conditional variances...
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Finance Seminar
Finance Seminar: Giang Nguyen
Joint with Brown Bag Seminar
A new Class of Empirical Dynamic Order Book Models with an Application to the U.S. Treasury Market
Giang Nguyen, PSU
We propose a new class of empirical dynamic order book models to study the joint dynamics of liquidity and volatility. The multiplicative...
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Finance Seminar
Anh Le, Penn State
Joint CORE-LFIN-NBB
Tractabel Term-Structure Models and the Zero Lower Bound
Anh Le, Penn State
We greatly expand the space of tractable term-structure models. Key to our approach is a direct specification of bond pricing functions, that does not require an explicit pricing kernel, but...
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Finance Seminar
Gradojevic Nikola, University of Guelph
Brexit and foreign exchange market expectations: Could it have been predicted?
Gradojevic Nikola, University of Guelph
In order to gauge foreign exchange market expectations prior to and after the Brexit vote in June, 2016, this paper examines European options written on the GBP/USD and...
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