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Random Time Forward Starting Options
We introduce a natural generalization of the forward-starting options, first
discussed by M. Rubinstein. The main feature of the contract presented here is
that the strike-determination time is not fixed ex-ante, but allowed to be
random, usually related to the occurrence of some event, either of financial
nature or not. We will call these options {\bf Random Time Forward Starting
(RTFS)}. We show that, under an appropriate "martingale preserving" hypothesis,
we can exhibit arbitrage free prices, which can be explicitly computed in many
classical market models, at least under independence between the random time
and the assets' prices. Practical implementations of the pricing methodologies
are also provided. Finally a credit value adjustment formula for these OTC
options is computed for the unilateral counterparty credit risk.Comment: 19 pages, 1 figur
Fourier transform pure nuclear quadrupole resonance by pulsed field cycling
We report the observation of Fourier transform pure NQR by pulsed field cycling. For deuterium, well resolved spectra are obtained with high sensitivity showing the low frequency nu0 lines and allowing assignments of quadrupole couplings and asymmetry parameters to inequivalent deuterons. The technique is ideally applicable to nuclei with low quadrupolar frequencies (e.g., 2D, 7Li, 11B, 27Al, 23Na, 14N) and makes possible high resolution structure determination in polycrystalline or disordered materials
PCV17 Systematic Review And Network Meta-Analysis Of All Agents For Stroke Prevention In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
Extreme times for volatility processes
We present a detailed study on the mean first-passage time of volatility
processes. We analyze the theoretical expressions based on the most common
stochastic volatility models along with empirical results extracted from daily
data of major financial indices. We find in all these data sets a very similar
behavior that is far from being that of a simple Wiener process. It seems
necessary to include a framework like the one provided by stochastic volatility
models with a reverting force driving volatility toward its normal level to
take into account memory and clustering effects in volatility dynamics. We also
detect in data a very different behavior in the mean first-passage time
depending whether the level is higher or lower than the normal level of
volatility. For this reason, we discuss asymptotic approximations and confront
them to empirical results with a good agreement, specially with the ExpOU
model.Comment: 10, 6 colored figure
Prevotella intermedia produces two homologous proteins to Porphyromonas gingivalis HmuY with different heme-binding properties
Porphyromonas gingivalis HmuY and Tannerella forsythia Tfo - two homologous proteins with different heme-binding properties
Generalised risk-sensitive control with full and partial state observation
This paper generalises the risk-sensitive cost functional by introducing noise dependent penalties on the state and control variables. The optimal control problems for the full and partial state observation are considered. Using a change of probability measure approach, explicit closed-form solutions are found in both cases. This has resulted in a new risk-sensitive regulator and filter, which are generalisations of the well-known classical results
Endoscopic Obliteration for Bleeding Peptic Ulcer
A group of 133 patients treated for bleeding peptic ulcer in our Department, is reviewed.
Within several hours of admission, all patients underwent upper gastrointestinal tract
gastroscopy and obliteration of the bleeding ulcer. Bleeding gastric ulcers were found in
41 patients, and duodenal ulcers in 92 patients. Patients were classified according to the
Forrest scale: IA – 11 patients, IB – 49 patients, IIA – 35 patients, lIB – 40 patients.
In 126 (94.7%) patients the bleeding was stopped, and 7 required urgent surgery: 3
patients with gastric ulcer underwent gastrectomy, and 4 with duodenal ulcer – truncal
vagotomy with pyloroplasty and had the bleeding site underpinned. Fifty-five patients
underwent elective surgery: gastrectomy and vagotomy (18 patients with gastric ulcer),
highly selective vagotomy (25 patients with duodenal ulcer) and truncal vagotomy and
pyloroplasty (12 patients with duodenal ulcer). None of the patients was observed to
have recurrent bleeding
Boundary-crossing identities for diffusions having the time-inversion property
We review and study a one-parameter family of functional transformations, denoted by (S (β)) β∈ℝ, which, in the case β<0, provides a path realization of bridges associated to the family of diffusion processes enjoying the time-inversion property. This family includes Brownian motions, Bessel processes with a positive dimension and their conservative h-transforms. By means of these transformations, we derive an explicit and simple expression which relates the law of the boundary-crossing times for these diffusions over a given function f to those over the image of f by the mapping S (β), for some fixed β∈ℝ. We give some new examples of boundary-crossing problems for the Brownian motion and the family of Bessel processes. We also provide, in the Brownian case, an interpretation of the results obtained by the standard method of images and establish connections between the exact asymptotics for large time of the densities corresponding to various curves of each family
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