Emanuel Derman gave the last presentation of the day on mathematical models and their role in financial markets. His presentation seemed to build on some of his earlier ideas with Paul Wilmott on the “Modeller’s Manifesto“.
Emanuel said that there was a “scandal based on models” is wrong; models did (and do) have their faults but they were not a root cause of the crisis.…
Roberta Romano gave her presentation in the second session of the morning, putting forward her ideas that what was needed was greater regulatory dis-harmony rather than world-wide harmonisation. Fundamentally she argued that this diversity of approaches in different regulatory regimes would minimise the impact of regulatory error (since it would confine the error to less of the system) and it would provide a test bed for ideas so that it could be seen what regulations work and what do not.…
Baruch College hosted the Capco-sponsored “Institute Paper Series in Applied Finace” on Thursday. I assume this is a further follow-up event to the one they did at NYU Poly last year (see some notes here). I have put some notes together below, my apologies in advance to the speakers for any innaccuracies or ommissions in putting my thoughts together:
Systemic Risk Presentation
First part of the day started with a presentation by Viral V.…
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