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CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Model for Volatility of Returns and Option Pricing
In a seminal paper in 1973, Black and Scholes argued how expected distributions of stock prices can be used to price options. Their model assumed a directed random motion for the ...
Joseph L. McCauley, Gemunu H. Gunaratne
HICSS
2002
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
An Inverse-Quantile Function Approach for Modeling Electricity Price
We propose a class of alternative stochastic volatility models for electricity prices using the quantile function modeling approach. Specifically, we fit marginal distributions ...
Shi-Jie Deng, Wenjiang Jiang
AUTOMATICA
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Bank management via stochastic optimal control
This paper examines a problem related to the optimal risk management of banks in a stochastic dynamic setting. In particular, we minimize7 market and capital adequacy risk that in...
Janine Mukuddem-Petersen, Mark Adam Petersen
CORR
2008
Springer
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Theory of Rumour Spreading in Complex Social Networks
We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particula...
Maziar Nekovee, Yamir Moreno, G. Bianconi, M. Mars...
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
The Genetic Algorithm as a General Diffusion Model for Social Networks
Diffusion processes taking place in social networks are used to model a number of phenomena, such as the spread of human or computer viruses, and the adoption of products in `vira...
Mayank Lahiri, Manuel Cebrián