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Instrument financier

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Pricing interest rate, dividend, and equity risk

This thesis studies the valuation and hedging of financial derivatives, which is fundamental for trading and risk-management operations in financial institutions. The three chapters in this thesis deal with derivatives whose payoffs are linked to interest ...

EPFL2019

Replicating portfolio approach to capital calculation

Mathieu Jacques David Cambou, Damir Filipovic

The replicating portfolio (RP) approach to the calculation of capital for life insurance portfolios is an industry standard. The RP is obtained from projecting the terminal loss of discounted asset–liability cash flows on a set of factors generated by a fa ...

2018

Hedge or Rebalance: Optimal Risk Management with Transaction Costs

Semyon Malamud

We solve the problem of optimal risk management for an investor holding an illiquid, alpha-generating fund and hedging his/her position with a liquid futures contract. When the investor is subject to a lower bound on net return, he/she is forced to reduce ...

2018

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory theory

Margarita Protopappa

Financial flows are often treated in a fragmented and disconnected way from the physical product flow. Managers take decisions from an operational point of view concerning inventory, service level or capacity needs. The implementation of such decisions inf ...

EPFL2009

Investment decisions with flexibility under uncertainty in the competitive electricity supply industry

Jun Dong

The restructuring of the electricity supply industry (ESI) has introduced new actors and market mechanisms. Electricity prices are more market oriented and fluctuate greatly. These changes bring about more uncertainties and risks to the market participants ...

EPFL2004