The US Dollar/Euro Exchange Rate: Structural Modeling and Forecasting During the Recent Financial Crises

The paper investigates the determinants of the US dollar/euro within the framework of the asset pricing theory of exchange rate determination, which posits that current exchange rate fluctuations are determined by the entire path of current and future revisions in expectations about fundamentals. In this perspective, we innovate by conditioning on Fama–French and Carhart risk factors, which directly measures changing market expectations about the economic outlook, on new financial condition indexes and macroeconomic variables. The macro‐finance augmented econometric model has a remarkable in‐sample and out‐of‐sample predictive ability, largely outperforming a standard autoregressive specification. We also document a stable relationship between the US dollar/euro Carhart momentum conditional correlation (CCW) and the euro area business cycle. CCW signals a progressive weakening in economic conditions since June 2014, consistent with the scattered recovery from the sovereign debt crisis and the new Greek solvency crisis exploded in late spring/early summer 2015. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Mortality effects of temperature changes in the United Kingdom

Temperature changes are known to affect the social and environmental determinants of health in various ways. Consequently, excess deaths as a result of extreme weather conditions may increase over the coming decades because of climate change. In this paper, the relationship between trends in mortality and trends in temperature change (as a proxy) is investigated using annual data and for specified (warm and cold) periods during the year in the UK. A thoughtful statistical analysis is implemented and a new stochastic, central mortality rate model is proposed. The new model encompasses the good features of the Lee and Carter (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1992, 87: 659–671) model and its recent extensions, and for the very first time includes an exogenous factor which is a temperature‐related factor. The new model is shown to provide a significantly better‐fitting performance and more interpretable forecasts. An illustrative example of pricing a life insurance product is provided and discussed.     

Knight不确定环境下供应商的乐观度对定价决策的影响

针对供应商的可变成本和产品市场价的双重Knight不确定性,本文运用α-maxmin多先验期望效用和纳什讨价还价模型研究了供应商的定价问题,涉及固定价格、成本加成和参考市场价三种合同,剖析了供应商的乐观度和含糊度对这些定价决策的影响。结论表明,固定价格随着供应商对成本的乐观度的提高而降低,随着市场价的乐观度的提高而提高.成本(市场价)的乐观度决定着成本(市场价)的含糊度与定价结果的关系.参考市场价合同下,供应商的定价权威不影响目标价格与成本的乐观度的关系,但影响目标价格与市场价的乐观度之间的关系。上述研究为分析不确定环境下供应商的定价行为提供理论支持。     

半马氏市道轮换利率期限结构模型——基于最小Tsallis熵鞅测度

基于Ho-Lee模型,讨论零息债券价格的演变,应用无套利原理和鞅测度的方法,建立了一个离散时间半马氏过程控制的市道轮换下的二叉树期限结构模型.运用最小Tsallis熵鞅测度(the minimal Tsallis entropy martingale measure,MTEMM)处理上述模型,并在马氏和半马氏市道下给出在欧式债券期权定价方面的应用.研究发现模型结果与最小熵鞅测度下的结果具有一致性.     

“新常态”下铜加工企业营销思考

随着我国经济发展的深刻变化,目前国内铜加工行业也面临着“新常态”,需求增长放缓,产能过剩严重,市场竞争加剧,资金流动紧张以及盈利能力下降等因素导致大多数铜加工企业处于亏损或微利状态,形势异常严峻.基于此背景,认为“从粗放型转向精益型,从追求规模转向追求风险控制”的营销管理理念是当前铜加工企业适应“新常态”比较务实的选择,并在定价管理、资金和价格风险规避、服务管理等方面给出了一些建议和思考,以期能帮助铜加工企业进一步提升营销管理水平,从而能够改善当前的经营困境,更好地应对激烈的市场竞争.     

CEV过程下回顾期权的定价问题研究

讨论了当基础资产遵循不变方差弹性（CEV）过程时回期权的定价问题,通过构建一个三项式模型对CEV过程进行近似化处理并利用其为回顾期权进行定价,发现当资产价格服从CEV过程时,Babbs提出的方法可修改用来为回顾期权定值。     

保费调整模型的研究

在分析保险累积损失和有效投资的基础上 ,利用倒向随机微分微分方程 ,建立了以投资收益相支持的保险价格调整模型 ,并对两种常见类型的保险进行了保险价格调整分析 .对保险人通过投资改变其保险市场竞争地位有积极的作用 .最后 ,用释例进行了说明 .     

一种逆向物流回收品定价模型

以逆向物流回收系统总利润最大化为目标，考虑再生产过程要求回收品持续不断地供应以及回收品修复率等因素，构建一种单周期单产品回收定价模型，并对模型进行数值分析和算例验证。回收模型总利润与回收品再销售价格及回收周期相关，回收品再销售价格是其修复率的单调递减函数，回收品回收周期是其修复率的单调递增函数，回收品修复率保持在一定范围内对企业有利。     

信息不完全与资产组合理论的文献综述

介绍了信息不完全与资产组合理论的基本理论成果,指出作为信息情报科学与经济学的交叉学科,现代资产组合理论是这一领域最为成功和最活跃的理论.     

一种特殊跳跃-扩散过程的欧式期权定价研究

当股票市场受到冲击时，股票价格会呈现跳跃-扩散现象，但由于市场规律，股票价格会很快趋于相对稳定状态．本文把股票价格受到冲击后的跳和最终趋于稳定的这个过程视为一次特殊的跳过程，并基于此过程得出欧式期权的定价公式．