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Papers and Notes

I hold a PhD from Copenhagen Business School, Department of Finance, my thesis adviser was Professor Carsten Sørensen. I graduated in April 2006. My thesis contains 3 articles within the field of computational Finance. Below you find papers and notes on different financial problems. Also, a copy of my dissertation is available.

My PhD contains 3 articles;

My Dissertation

This note describes how to construct and decompose a return index for a bond. Payments from the bond - coupons and redemptions - are reinvested in the bond at the current market price. This include scheduled payments as well as payments from called loans.
Return Index

In this note many trivially (and some advanced) calculations in the Hull-White interest rate model are done. Please let me know if there are any errors.
Calculations in the Hull-White Model

The following presentation have been given for several years for industry people at the Summer School at Copenhagen Business School in the course Modelling, Pricing and Management of Interest Rate Risk. It describes how to build a model for pricing Fixed Rate Callable Mortgage Backed Securities. Unfortunately it's still in Danish.
MBS Pricing

An incomplete note on how financial pricing measures  are constructed.
Construction of Pricing Measures

A very short note on the relation between a swaption's BPV and it's delta.
Swaption BPV and Delta

A note on convexity adjustment of the forward rate and how to calculate the value today of a rate that is not known until a future date.
Convexity Adjustment

Pricing of non-callable Xibor products using the convexity adjustment approach developed above. Unfortunately, its only in Danish.
Prisfastsættelse af Cibor Producter

About me

In 1993 I graduated as Master of Economics and Mathematics from University of Southern Denmark.

I took my Ph.D. at Copenhagen Business School, Institute of Finance in 2006. My thesis contains 3 papers on computational finance.