Pricing, hedging and testing risky assets in financial markets
State price density (SPD) and stochastic discount factor (SDF) are important elements in asset pricing. In this thesis, I first propose to use projection pursuit regression (PPR) and local polynomial regression (LPR) to estimate the SPD of interest rates nonparametrically. By using a similar approac...
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Language: | en en |
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2008
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1238 |