Building on recent arbitrage-based pricing innovations in finance, we demonstrate an integrated interest rate and currency risk evaluation and management approach. This approach is based on the six fundamental parameters of global money market risk, exchange rate standard deviation, interest rate standard deviations and the correlations across interest rates and currencies. Based on these param...

Despite mixed and contradictory findings, for-profits (FPs) and nonprofits (NPs) are assumed to be similar health services organizations (HSOs). In this study, a fifteen-item scale assessing HSOs' strategic management capacity was developed and tested using fifty-seven FP and twenty NP organizations. Then, using item response theory, the items were hierarchically profiled to produce two strateg...

This paper explores empirical linkages between credit unions’ (CUs’) policies and their financial perfomance, as measured by loan delinquency and profitability, using a unique micro dataset of credit unions in three Latin American countries. The estimated translog profit function is generalized using a slack variable concept that parameterizes any systematic deviation from profitmaximizing beha...

Many risk measures have been recently introduced which (for discrete random variables) result in Linear Programs (LP). While some LP computable risk measures may be viewed as approximations to the variance (e.g., the mean absolute deviation or the Gini’s mean absolute difference), shortfall or quantile risk measures are recently gaining more popularity in various financial applications. In this...

This paper provides a large deviation principle for Non-Markovian, Brownian motion driven stochastic differential equations with random coefficients. Similar to Gao & Liu [19], this extends the corresponding results collected in Freidlin & Wentzell [18]. However, we use a different line of argument, adapting the PDE method of Fleming [14] and Evans & Ishii [10] to the pathdependent case, by usi...

Variance and volatility derivatives are becoming increasingly important in the financial markets. To fix the ideas let γn, n = 0, 1, 2, . . . , N be a time series of consecutive prices of an asset, such as, for example, the daily closing value of a market index, observed at time tn, n = 0 (today),1, 2, . . . , N (maturity). For n = 1, 2, . . . , N holding a unity of the asset between time tn−1 ...

To design a multi-population adaptive genetic BP algorithm, crossover probability and mutation probability are self-adjusted according to the standard deviation of population fitness in this paper. Then a hybrid model combining Fuzzy Neural Network and multi-population adaptive genetic BP algorithm—Adaptive Genetic Fuzzy Neural Network (AGFNN) is proposed to overcome Neural Network’s drawbacks....

Deviation is a recent constraint to balance a set of variables with respect to a given mean. We show that the propagators recently introduced are not bound-consistent when the mean is rational. We introduce bound-consistent propagators running in linear time with respect to the number of variables. We evaluate the improvement in terms of efficiency and pruning obtained with the new propagators ...

different areas of modern financial tools and processes activities contain the matters like innovations in financial tools engineering and risk management. derivatives and especially stock exchange option is part of this innovation. among all numerical procedures in calculating the value of derivatives and the risk sensitivity parameters of option, binomial models are widely used. in this stud...

We establish functional large deviation principles (FLDPs) for waiting and departure processes in single-server queues with unlimited waiting space and the rst-in rst-out service discipline. We apply the extended contraction principle to show that these processes obey FLDPs in the function space D with one of the non-uniform Skorohod topologies whenever the arrival and service processes obey FL...