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Spot-forward simulation of electricity prices with regime shifts
Institution partenaire
English / 12/12/2013
Price dynamics in gas markets
Modeling natural gas futures prices is essential for valuation purposes as well as for hedging strategies in energy risk management. We present a general multi-factor affine diffusion model which incorporates the joint stylized features of both spot and futures prices. The model is brought into state space form on which Kalman filter techniques are applied to evaluate the maximum...
Institution partenaire
English / 10/10/2013
Price dynamics in electricity spot markets
We propose a novel regime-switching approach for the simulation of electricity spot prices that is inspired by the class of fundamental models and takes into account the relation between spot and forward prices. Additionally the model is able to reproduce spikes and negative prices. Market prices are derived given an observed forward curve. We distinguish between a base regime and an...
Institution partenaire
English / 08/07/2013
Medium-term planning for thermal electricity production
Institution partenaire
English / 06/07/2013
Adjustment Policy of Deposit Rates in the Case of Swiss Non-maturing Savings Accounts
Retail banks usually apply simple linear regression models for describing the dynamics of the deposit rates of non-maturing accounts (NMA) like savings deposits. Thus, typical patterns like asymmetry or rigidity that banks follow when adjusting their deposit rates are ignored. This is insofar surprising, as the asymmetric deposit rate adjustment affects the pricing of embedded...
Institution partenaire
English / 04/04/2013
Robustness in sample selection models
The problem of non-random sample selectivity often occurs in practice in many different fields. In presence of sample selection, the data appears in the sample according to some selection rule. In these cases, the standard tools designed for complete samples, e.g. ordinary least squares, produce biased results, and hence, methods correcting this bias are needed. In his seminal work,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Two essays in statistics: a prediction divergence criterion for model selection & wavelet variance based estimation of latent time series models
This thesis is divided in two parts. First, it presents a new criterion for model selection which is shown to be particularly well suited in "sparse" settings which we believe to be common in many research fields. Our selection procedure is developed for linear regression models, smoothing splines, autoregressive and mixed linear models. These developments are then applied...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Robust VIF Regression with Application to Variable Selection in Large Datasets
The sophisticated and automated means of data collection used by an increasing number of institutions and companies leads to extremely large datasets. Subset selection in regression is essential when a huge number of covariates can potentially explain a response variable of interest. The recent statistical literature has seen an emergence of new selection methods that provide some...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Consumer Behavior Analysis for Luxury Goods - A Technical Note for Empirical Studies
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Limits of the Allan Variance and Optimal Tuning of Wavelet Variance based Estimators
This article first demonstrates the inconsistency of the estimator based on the standard Allan Variance (AV) for composite stochastic processes. This result motivates the use of a recently developed estimator, called the Generalized Method of Wavelet Moments (GMWM) estimator. This estimator was previously shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed under the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
N-acetylcysteine does not prevent contrast nephropathy in patients with renal impairment undergoing emergency CT: a randomized study
BACKGROUND: Patients admitted to the emergency room with renal impairment and undergoing a contrast computed tomography (CT) are at high risk of developing contrast nephropathy as emergency precludes sufficient hydration prior to contrast use. The value of an ultra-high dose of intravenous N-acetylcysteine in this setting is unknown. METHODS: From 2008 to 2010, we randomized 120...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
An Algorithm for Automatic Inertial Sensors Calibration : Proceedings of the ION GNSS 2013
We present an algorithm for determining the nature of stochastic processes together with its parameters based on the analysis of time series of inertial errors. The algorithm is suitable mainly (but not only) for situations when several stochastic processes are superposed. In such cases, classical approaches based on the analysis of Allan variance or PSD are likely to fail due to the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Robust Estimation of Bivariate Copulas
Copula functions are very convenient for modelling multivariate observations. Popular es- timation methods are the two-stage maximum likelihood and an alternative semi-parametric with empirical cumulative distribution functions (cdf) for the margins. Unfortunately, they can be hastily biased whenever relatively small model deviations occur at the marginal (empirical or parametric)...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Robust Estimation for Bivariate Distribution
Copula functions are very convenient for modelling multivariate observations. Popular estimation methods are the two-stage MLE and an alternative semi-parametric with empirical cdf for the margins. Unfortunately, they are hastily biased whenever relatively small model deviations occur at the marginal (empirical or parametric) and/or copula levels. In this master thesis we propose...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Wavelet-Variance-Based Estimation for Composite Stochastic Processes
This article presents a new estimationmethod for the parameters of a times series model.We consider here composite Gaussian processes that are the sum of independent Gaussian processes which, in turn, explain an important aspect of the time series, as is the case in engineering and natural sciences. The proposed estimation method offers an alternative to classical estimation based on...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Extreme spillover between shadow banking and regular banking
The current financial crisis brought light to a large banking sector that existed for decades within the "darkness" of the financial system - the shadow banking sector. Shadow bank assets are widely traded in the financial markets and shadow banking activities are intertwined with the daily business of regular banks. This unregulated banking sector has become systematically...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2013
Modeling non-maturing savings volumes
In Basel II the regulators stress the importance of finding realistic volumes models for non-maturing accounts (NMAs), given their cash-flow uncer- tainty due to optionality. Focusing on Swiss savings accounts, we identify their seasonal pattern and we derive their sensitivity to market rates and to relevant macroeconomic factors. We derive a realistic volumes model, that allows for...
Institution partenaire
English / 02/07/2012
Fault Detection and Isolation in Multiple MEMS-IMUs Configurations
This research presents methods for detecting and isolating faults in multiple MEMS-IMU configurations. First, geometric configurations with n sensor triads are investigated. It is proofed that the relative orientation between sensor triads is irrelevant to system optimality in the absence of failures. Then, the impact of sensor failure or decreased performance is investigated. Three...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2012
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