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International Conference Programme


1. Mathematical Finance - Stochastic Models


Session 1-A

Sunday, 26th September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Svetlana Borovkova

Modelling seasonalities and spikes in electricity prices

Juri Hinz

Pricing electricity contracts by interest rate methods

Rafal Weron

Pricing derivatives in electricity markets

Andrew Jack

Impulse Control of One-dimensional Ito Diffusions with an Ergodic Criterion



Session 1-B

Sunday, 26th September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Jeannette H.C. Woerner

Power and Bipower Variation: inference for high frequency data

M R Pistorius

Russian and American put options under exponential phase-type Lévy models

Joăo M. E. Guerra

Optimal Portfolios in Lévy Markets

Josep Vives

Stroock formula for Lévy processes and applications to Finance



Session 1-C

Sunday, 26th September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Alexandra Dias

Dynamic copula models for multivariate high frequency data in finance

Raquel M Gaspar

Finite dimensional Markovian realizations for forward price models

Gordan Zitkovic

Financial equilibria in the semimartingale setting: complete markets and markets with withdrawal constraints

Mihail Zervos

Discretionary stopping of one dimensional Itô diffusions with a staircase payoff function



Session 1-D

Sunday, 26th September

 17:10 - 18:10

SPEAKER

TITLE

Gabor Molnar-Saska

Change detection of Hidden Markov Models and GARCH processes

Karthik Vasudevan

A self adaptive G ARIMA model to help achieve real time financial forecasting

Anne Laure Bronstein

Sequential entry and exit decisions with an ergodic criterion



Session 1-E

Sunday, 26th September

17:10 - 18:30

SPEAKER

TITLE

Arnd Pauwels

Variance-optimal hedging in stochastic volatility models

Amal Merhi

An investment capacity expansion model with costly reversibility

Belhaj Mohamed

Optimizing Dividend Payments when Cash reserves Follow a Compound Process

Ludger Overbeck

Semi-analytic Techniques for CDO-Modelling



Session 1-F

Sunday, 26th  September

 17:10 - 18:30

SPEAKER

TITLE

Arne Lokka

A model for the long-term optimal capacity level of an investment project.

Ömer Önalan

 Financial asset returns modelling a-stable self-similar processes economics

Henrik Jonsson

Structural studies of optimal stopping domains for American type options

Siu-Ah Ng

Trading through hyper timeline



Session 1-G

Monday, 27th  September

14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Zalán Mátyás

A behavioral stock market model

Miklós Rásonyi

Utility maximization in discrete-time financial market models

Thorsten Schmidt

Infinite Dimensional Models for Credit Risk

Sara Biagini

Utility maximization for unbounded processes



Session 1-H

Monday, 27th  September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Fabian Astic

No Arbitrage Conditions and Liquidity

Timothy Johnson

An optimal stopping problem with applications to the timing of investment decisions

Nordine Bennani

An Extended Market Model for Credit Derivatives

Sergey Gelman

Price convergence of target stock by Mergers and Acquisitions under uncertainty of the deal completion




2. Derivative Pricing


Session 2-A

Monday, 27th  September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Uwe Wystup

Instalment Options

Ana Lacerda

Dry Markets and Superreplication Bounds of American Derivatives


Claudia Ribeiro

Correcting for Simulation Bias in Monte Carlo methods to Value Exotic Options in Models Driven by Lévy Processes

Nick Webber

Valuing Discrete Barrier Options on a Dirichlet Lattice



Session 2-B

Monday, 27th  September

 17:10 - 18:10

SPEAKER

TITLE

Carlos Manuel Antunes Veiga

Expanding Further the Universe of Exotic Options Closed Pricing Formulas

Jessica Cariboni

Global sensitivity analysis for options pricing

C. Vázquez
 

Numerical methods for pricing fixed-strike Eurasian options with continuous arithmetic averaging



Session 2-C

Monday, 27th  September

 17:10 - 18:10

SPEAKER

TITLE

Rui Vilela Mendes

Option pricing with fractional volatility
Rates

Susanne Kruse

Forward Starting Options in the Heston’s Model on Stochastic Volatility

Rehez Ahlip

Pricing Stock Options With Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest




3. Interest Rate Term Structure Modelling


Session 3

Sunday, 26th  September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Joăo Pedro Vidal Nunes

Barrier Options on Spot LIBOR Rates under Multi-Factor Gaussian HJM Models

Veronika Czellar

Indirect robust estimation of the short-term interest rate process

Wolfgang Kluge

Pricing caps and swaptions in a Lévy driven term structure model


Luis Oliveira

Multi-Factor and Analytical Valuation of Treasury Bond Futures with an Embedded Quality Option




4. Portfolio Management


Session 4-A

Monday, 27th  September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Aymeric Kalife

Portfolio Insurance Strategies by a Large Player


Yiannis Kamarianakis

Portfolios that beat a moving target in the presence of management fees

Michael Wolf

Honey, I shrunk the sample covariance matrix


Radulescu Marius

Risk management in the presence of transaction costs and initial holdings



Session 4-B

Monday, 27th  September

 17:10 - 18:30

SPEAKER

TITLE

Sergey Nagornii
 

Asset Allocation and Risk Budgeting Optimization

Joern Sass

Good portfolio strategies under transaction costs: A renewal approach


Giannis Vardas

Optimal portfolio rules derived under uncertainty aversion


David Vyncke

Comonotonic Approximations for Optimal Portfolio Selection Problems




5. Integrated Risk Management


Session 5

Wednesday, 29th  September

 17:10 - 18:50

Manuel L. Esquivel

Dynamical V-a-R via Ito line integrals

Pham-Hi Duc

Stochastic operational risk control in the New Basle Accord framework

José R. H. Ornelas

Goodness-of-Fit Test focuses on Conditional Value at Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Rates

Giacomo Scandolo

Risk measures and capital requirements for processes

Valeri Zakamouline

Efficient Analytic Approximation of the Optimal Hedging Strategy with Transaction Costs




6. Mathematical Economics


Session 6

Wednesday, 29th  September

 14:40 - 16:00

Joăo Amaro de Matos

Information Flow, Social Interactions and the Fluctuations of Prices in Financial Markets

Stefan Alex Popovici

Analysis of equilibrium financial markets in continuous time

Rustam Ibragimov

On the robustness of economic models to heavy-tailedness assumptions

Marta Faias

Default History Versus Collateral




7. Finance


Session 7

Sunday, 26th  September

 17:10 – 18:30

Tony Berrada

Incomplete Information, Heterogeneous Beliefs and Bounded Rationality


Quiroga García Raquel

Samuelson Hypothesis revised: The case of the IBEX 35 index future


Francisco Matos

Modeling the Volatility on International Stock Markets

Kin-Yip Ho

Volatility dynamics of the Tokyo Stock Exchange: a sectoral analysis based on the multivariate GARCH approach




8. Quantitative and Computational Models and Methods


Session 8-A

Wednesday, 29th September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Joan del Castillo

Estimating Lévy processes by GLM models

Christian Pigorsch

EMM Estimation of time-changed Lévy Processes


Romuald Elie

Optimal Greek weights by Kernel estimation

N. P. Firth

Upper Bounds for American Option Prices sing Regression with Martingale Basis Functions



Session 8-B

Wednesday, 29th September

 14:40 - 16:00

SPEAKER

TITLE

Jae H. Kim

Non-parametric joint variance ratio tests and their small sample properties


Roderick McCrorie

 The effect of temporal aggregation on macroeconomic and financial time series models


Ana Margarida Monteiro

Recovering Risk-Neutral Probability Density Functions from Options Prices using Cubic Splines


Pedro Mota

A estimation procedure for the brownian motion (with drift) threshold model



Session 8-C

Wednesday, 29th September

 17:10 - 18:10

SPEAKER

TITLE

Friedrich Schmid

A Chi-Square test of fit for parametric families of Copulas, application to financial data

Aleksander Weron

Hyperbolic GARCH models

Febrio Nathan Kacaribu

Measuring core inflation in Indonesia: An Asymmetric Trimmed-Mean Approach



Session 8-D

Wednesday, 29th September

 17:10 - 18:30

SPEAKER

TITLE

António Alberto Ferreira Santos

Using MCMC to estimate returns-volume stochastic volatility models: Some new evidence

Fredj Jawadi

Nonlinear Adjustement towards equilibrium Value

Sergio Bianchi

Pathwise Identification of the Memory Function of a Multifractional Market Model



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Remark: Each presentation in the Parallel Sessions is 20 minutes long (15m +  5m for discussion).

 

 

Poster Session

Sunday, 26th September

  18:30 - 19:30

Andrew Jack

Impulse Control of One-dimensional Ito Diffusions with an Ergodic Criterion

Massimo Costabile

On Pricing Exotic Options Under the CEV Process

Sadig Mammadli
 

Analysis of stock return and volatility using GARCH models: the case of Turkey

Petr Dostál

Optimal Trading Strategies with Transaction Costsa>

Martin Vojtek

Calibration of interest rate models: A transition market case