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Smart Adjusters

2021-06-09

Hagan’s adjusters [Hag02] improve the pricing of financial products, even with the simplest models,...

Jump diffusion models, Merton and Bates

2016-04-14

Financial modeling with jump processes is a fully explored domain. We present in this post some of t...

Curve Building

2015-08-31

Building the (zero-coupon) yield curve is the first step in most of the financial modeling problems....

Pricing with dividends

2013-09-27

Classical equity models don’t handle very well dividends, in particular constant ones. We present in...

An efficient simulation method for the Poisson distribu...

2013-01-09

Poisson distribution is a classical distribution that often appears in mathematical finance, like in...

A possible solution to the spurious oscillations in fin...

2012-08-31

Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solving is an important part of numerical analysis in mathematic...

On the power of formal contract description for quantit...

2012-06-15

As my first subject (and the first subject on LexiFi’s quantitative blog), I would like to focus on ...