Some applications of time series models to financial data
In practice, it is well known that hedging a derivative instrument can never be perfect. In the case of credit derivatives (e.g. synthetic CDO tranche products), a trader will have to face some specific difficulties. The first one is the inconsistence between most of the existing pricing models, where the risk is the occurrence of defaults, and the real hedging strategy, where the trader will protect his portfolio against small CDS spread movements. The second one, which is the main subject of...
Wavelets (see [2, 3, 4]) are a recent mathematical tool that is applied in signal processing, numerical mathematics and statistics. The wavelet transform allows to follow data in the frequency as well as time domain, to compute efficiently the wavelet coefficients using fast algorithm, to separate approximations from details. Due to these properties, the wavelet transform is suitable for analyzing and forecasting in time series. In this paper, Box-Jenkins models (see [1, 5]) combined with wavelets...