557 research outputs found
Volatility and dividend risk in perpetual American options
American options are financial instruments that can be exercised at any time
before expiration. In this paper we study the problem of pricing this kind of
derivatives within a framework in which some of the properties --volatility and
dividend policy-- of the underlaying stock can change at a random instant of
time, but in such a way that we can forecast their final values. Under this
assumption we can model actual market conditions because some of the most
relevant facts that may potentially affect a firm will entail sharp predictable
effects. We will analyse the consequences of this potential risk on perpetual
American derivatives, a topic connected with a wide class of recurrent problems
in physics: holders of American options must look for the fair price and the
optimal exercise strategy at once, a typical question of free absorbing
boundaries. We present explicit solutions to the most common contract
specifications and derive analytical expressions concerning the mean and higher
moments of the exercise time.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures, iopart, submitted for publication; deep
revision, two new appendice
On low-sampling-rate Kramers-Moyal coefficients
We analyze the impact of the sampling interval on the estimation of
Kramers-Moyal coefficients. We obtain the finite-time expressions of these
coefficients for several standard processes. We also analyze extreme situations
such as the independence and no-fluctuation limits that constitute useful
references. Our results aim at aiding the proper extraction of information in
data-driven analysis.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Collective behavior of stock price movements in an emerging market
To investigate the universality of the structure of interactions in different
markets, we analyze the cross-correlation matrix C of stock price fluctuations
in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. We find that this emerging
market exhibits strong correlations in the movement of stock prices compared to
developed markets, such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is shown to
be due to the dominant influence of a common market mode on the stock prices.
By comparison, interactions between related stocks, e.g., those belonging to
the same business sector, are much weaker. This lack of distinct sector
identity in emerging markets is explicitly shown by reconstructing the network
of mutually interacting stocks. Spectral analysis of C for NSE reveals that,
the few largest eigenvalues deviate from the bulk of the spectrum predicted by
random matrix theory, but they are far fewer in number compared to, e.g., NYSE.
We show this to be due to the relative weakness of intra-sector interactions
between stocks, compared to the market mode, by modeling stock price dynamics
with a two-factor model. Our results suggest that the emergence of an internal
structure comprising multiple groups of strongly coupled components is a
signature of market development.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figure
Promoted Ignition and Burning Tests of Stainless Steel in Flowing and Nonflowing Oxygen
The Industry-Sponsored Metals Combustion Test Program 96-1 was coordinated through Wendell Hull & Associates, Inc. on behalf of several contributing companies, and all design and testing was performed at the NASA White Sands Test Facility. Phase I of this test program studied the threshold pressure for self-sustained burning of various types and sizes of stain less steel rods in nonflowing oxygen, as observed in Standard Test Method for Determining the Combustion Behavior of Metallic Materials in Oxygen-Enriched Atmospheres (ASTM G 124-95). Phase II studied the ignition and propagation of burning of 316L stainless steel rods and pipe in flowing gaseous oxygen. The test sample configurations were chosen to replicate previous promoted ignition and burning tests as well as to represent geometries and cross-sectional thicknesses common in industrial piping applications. The gas pressw'es and velocities for the test matrix were selected to generally compare with CGA G-4.4 guidelines for the use of stain less steel in oxygen service. This paper summarizes the results from the Phase I nonflowing oxygen tests and presents in detail the results of the Phase II flowing oxygen tests. The maximum sample burn-length is shown as a function of test pressure in Phase 1 and also as a function of gas velocity in Phase IT. These results indicate that flowing oxygen, under the given test conditions, significantly affects maximum sample burn length as compared to nonflowing oxygen. Supplementary flowing oxygen test data on stainless steel rods from a follow-up test program are consistent with these results and are presented herein
Coupled continuous time random walks in finance
Continuous time random walks (CTRWs) are used in physics to model anomalous
diffusion, by incorporating a random waiting time between particle jumps. In
finance, the particle jumps are log-returns and the waiting times measure delay
between transactions. These two random variables (log-return and waiting time)
are typically not independent. For these coupled CTRW models, we can now
compute the limiting stochastic process (just like Brownian motion is the limit
of a simple random walk), even in the case of heavy tailed (power-law) price
jumps and/or waiting times. The probability density functions for this limit
process solve fractional partial differential equations. In some cases, these
equations can be explicitly solved to yield descriptions of long-term price
changes, based on a high-resolution model of individual trades that includes
the statistical dependence between waiting times and the subsequent
log-returns. In the heavy tailed case, this involves operator stable space-time
random vectors that generalize the familiar stable models. In this paper, we
will review the fundamental theory and present two applications with
tick-by-tick stock and futures data.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. Paper presented at the Econophysics Colloquium,
Canberra, Australia, November 200
Wigner and Kondo physics in quantum point contacts revealed by scanning gate microscopy
Quantum point contacts exhibit mysterious conductance anomalies in addition
to well known conductance plateaus at multiples of 2e^2/h. These 0.7 and
zero-bias anomalies have been intensively studied, but their microscopic origin
in terms of many-body effects is still highly debated. Here we use the charged
tip of a scanning gate microscope to tune in situ the electrostatic potential
of the point contact. While sweeping the tip distance, we observe repetitive
splittings of the zero-bias anomaly, correlated with simultaneous appearances
of the 0.7 anomaly. We interpret this behaviour in terms of alternating
equilibrium and non-equilibrium Kondo screenings of different spin states
localized in the channel. These alternating Kondo effects point towards the
presence of a Wigner crystal containing several charges with different
parities. Indeed, simulations show that the electron density in the channel is
low enough to reach one-dimensional Wigner crystallization over a size
controlled by the tip position
Amnestically induced persistence in random walks
We study how the Hurst exponent depends on the fraction of the
total time remembered by non-Markovian random walkers that recall only the
distant past. We find that otherwise nonpersistent random walkers switch to
persistent behavior when inflicted with significant memory loss. Such memory
losses induce the probability density function of the walker's position to
undergo a transition from Gaussian to non-Gaussian. We interpret these findings
of persistence in terms of a breakdown of self-regulation mechanisms and
discuss their possible relevance to some of the burdensome behavioral and
psychological symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figs, subm. to Phys. Rev. Let
Reaction ⁶Li(p, Δ⁺⁺)⁶He At 1.04 GeV And The Δ−N Interaction
The reaction ⁶Li(p, Δ⁺⁺)⁶He has been studied at 1.04 GeV for transferred momenta ranging from 0.11 to 0.35 (GeV/c)2. An exponential decrease of the cross section is observed. A Glauber-type calculation is presented. The possibility of extracting information on σ(ΔN) and α(ΔN) is discussed
Landau levels and magnetopolaron effect in dilute GaAs:N
The magnetic-field dependence of the energy spectrum of GaAs doped with
nitrogen impurities is investigated. Our theoretical model is based on the
phenomenological Band Anticrossing Model (BAC) which we extended in order to
include magnetic field and electron - phonon interaction. Due to the highly
localized nature of the nitrogen state, we find that the energy levels are very
different from those of pure GaAs. The polaron correction results in a lower
cyclotron resonance energy as compared to pure GaAs. The magneto-absorption
spectrum exhibits series of asymmetric peaks close to the cyclotron energy
Spurious trend switching phenomena in financial markets
The observation of power laws in the time to extrema of volatility, volume
and intertrade times, from milliseconds to years, are shown to result
straightforwardly from the selection of biased statistical subsets of
realizations in otherwise featureless processes such as random walks. The bias
stems from the selection of price peaks that imposes a condition on the
statistics of price change and of trade volumes that skew their distributions.
For the intertrade times, the extrema and power laws results from the format of
transaction data
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