Mathematical Finance Seminar, Fall 2000

These are lectures that have already been given. They are listed here for information purposes only. Please go to the seminar page for the current schedule.

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September 21, Giovanni Barone-Adesi Universita Svizzera Italiana
On The Informational Content of Changing Risk for Dynamic Asset Allocation (abstract)

September 28, Dilip Madan University of Maryland
The Fine Structure of Asset Returns: An Empirical Investigation (abstract)

October 5, Michael Stutzer University of Iowa
A Large Deviations Approach to Portfolio Analysis (abstract)

October 12, Alexander Kreinin Algorithmics, Inc.
Joint Market and Credit Risk Model (abstract)

October 26, Tse Leung Lai Stanford University
Valuation and exercise boundaries of American barrier and lookback options (abstract)

November 2, Scott Weiner Balliol College
The Effect of Stochastic Volatility on Portfolio Optimization with Transaction Costs (abstract)

November 9, John Hull University of Toronto and Stern School of Business
A Test of the Implied Volatility Function Model As It Is Used By Traders to Price And Hedge Exotic Options (abstract)
(Joint work with Wulin So, Queens University)

November 16, Robert Zvan Bear Stearns & Co.
Topics in the Numerical Solution of Option Pricing PDEs (abstract)

November 30, John Merrick Stern School of Business
Pascal Spreading of Short-Term Interest Rate Contracts (abstract)

December 7, Agnes Tourin University of Toronto
Numerical schemes for variational inequalities arising in international asset pricing. (abstract)

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Marco Avellaneda