Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2000, while working at JPMorgan Chase, Li published a paper in The Journal of ...
As global financial markets become increasingly interconnected, accurately modelling correlations between assets is essential. Traditional models often assume static correlations, which fail to ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s ba-ack. The formula that famously felled Wall Street. The Gaussian copula — with which banks famously ...
MacKenzie is a very smart sociologist, who understands quants and copula functions much more deeply than I ever did. (And, like most journalists, I forgot nearly all of what I ever knew about them ...
During the financial crisis, it was often impossible to calibrate the Gaussian copula credit portfolio model with base correlation and fixed recovery rates (also known as the standard Gaussian copula ...
Despite its simplicity, the popular one-factor Gaussian copula model remains the market standard for the valuation of collateralized debt obligation tranches and nth-to-default trades. However, it ...
QUANT models and their architects are so misunderstood, often by people working in finance. It pains me, though I am biased. I spent the better part of a decade devoted to studying elegant (and ...