Mathematical Finance Seminar, Spring 2003

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.

January 30, 2003 J. Doyne Farmer Santa Fe Institute
Explaining the statistical properties of markets via random low intelligence agents (abstract)
Note: The lecture will be held at Jurow Hall, 100 Washington Square East. Immediately following the talk, from 7:00 t o 8:00 PM, a reception will be held at the Silverstein Lounge, hosted by IslandECN/Instinet.

February 20, 2003 Kay Giesecke Cornell University
Credit Contagion and Aggregate Losses (abstract)

February 27, 2003 Martin Schaden New York University
The Distributions of Historic Stock Returns and Quantum Theory (abstract)

March 6, 2003 Marc Potters Science et Finance, Capital Fund Management
Statistical Properties of Order Books and Price Impact (abstract)

March 13, 2003 Greg Duffee UC Berkeley
Time-variation in the covariance between stock returns and consumption growth (abstract)

March 27, 2003 Les Gulko Paloma Partners
Mr. Oedipus, CFA (abstract)

April 3, 2003 Robert Fernholtz INTECH Asset Management
Stochastic Portfolio Theory (abstract)

April 10, 2003 Damir Filipovic Princeton University
A Simple Model for Credit Migration and Spread Curves (abstract)

April 17, 2003 Sanford Grossman Quantitative Financial Strategies
Optimization Problems in Quantitative Hedge Fund Management (abstract)

April 24, 2003 Robert Jarrow Cornell University
Liquidity Risk and Arbitrage Pricing Theory (abstract)

May 1, 2003 Peter Carr Courant Institute, NYU
Robust Replication of Path-Dependent Derivative Securities (abstract)

May 8, 2003 Serge Levendorskii UT Austin
Optimal stopping in non-Gaussian models, with applications to pricing of American options and real options (abstract)

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