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Preventing market crashes through insuring the speed of drawdowns

 

When 11.00 on Friday 1st July 2011
Where H103, Connaught House
Presentations  
Speaker Olympia Hadjiliadis
From City University of New York
Abstract

In this work we derive analytical formulas for the joint distribution of the drawdown, the last visit time of the maximum of a process preceding the drawdown and the maximum of the process under general diffusion dynamics. The motivation for this work arises in the financial risk management of drawdowns.

Drawdowns measure the first time the current drop of an investor’s wealth from its historical maximum reaches a pre-specified level. Therefore a quantity related to the drawdown is the duration of time between the drawdown and the last time at which the maximum was achieved. This quantity is studied here.

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