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Working Papers

A gentle introduction to the RM 2006 methodology
Gilles Zumbach. September 2006

Back testing risk methodologies from 1 day to 1 year
Gilles Zumbach. August 2006

Measuring Risk on Credit Indices: On the Use of the Basis
Fabien Couderc. May 2006

Adaptations of Monte Carlo Simulation Technique To American Option Pricing
Serena A. Agoro-Menyang. October 2005.

Incorporating equity derivatives into the CreditGrades model
Robert Stamicar & Christopher C. Finger. June 2005.

Risk Budgeting for Pension Plans
Jorge Mina. May 2005.

Risk Attribution for Asset Managers
Jorge Mina. November 2002.

Mark-to-Market, Oversight, and Sensitivity Analysis of CDO's
Jorge Mina. December 2001.

Financial Crises, Implied Volatility and Stress Testing
Allan Malz. October 2001.

Hypothesis Test of Default Correlation and Application to Specific Risk
Jongwoo Kim. October 2000.

Calculating VaR through Quadratic Approximations
Jorge Mina. September 2000. To appear in the Journal of Risk Finance, Winter 2001.

A Comparison of Stochastic Default Rate Models
Christopher C. Finger. August 2000.

Do Implied Volatilities Provide Early Warning of Market Stress?
Allan M. Malz. October 1999. Updated February 2000.

A Stress Test to Incorporate Correlation Breakdown
Jongwoo Kim and Christopher C. Finger. October 1999. Updated February 2000. Appeared in the Journal of Risk, Spring 2000.

On Default Correlation: A Copula Function Approach
David Li. September 1999. Appeared in the Journal of Fixed Income, March 2000.

Vega Risk and the Smile (PDF Format, 149K)
Allan M. Malz. September 1999. Updated February 2001. Appeared in the Journal of Risk, Winter 2000/2001.

A Way to Condition Transition Matrix on Wind
Jongwoo Kim. May 1999. Updated December 1999.

Why is the RMCI so Low?
Christopher C. Finger. October 1999.

Toward a Better Estimation of Wrong-Way Credit Exposure
Christopher C. Finger. October 1999. Appeared in the Journal of Risk Finance, Spring 2000.

Delta-Gamma Four Ways
Jorge Mina and Andrew Ulmer. August 1999.

Semiparametric ARCH Models: An Estimating Function Approach
David Li and Harry Turtle. April 1999. Forthcoming in Journal of Business, Economic and Statistics.

Value-at-Risk Based on the Volatility, Skewness, and Kurtosis
David Li. April 1999.

Improved Cash Flow Map
Jorge Mina. April 1999.

Sticks and Stones
Christopher C. Finger. October 1998. Excerpted in Strategic Finance, March 1999.

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