About the Lab
Submitted by Gal Zahavi on Sun, 11/25/2012 - 09:39The Financial Engineering Laboratory operates within the Technion Research Centers, and is part of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management. It was established in 2009 and is headed by Dr. Gal Zahavi. The primary goal of the lab is to conduct empirical and analytical research in the field of quantitative finance. In the lab students play a very important role taking projects and programing. Students get the chance to step into experimental finance experiencing the models strength, weaknesses and reliability in the presence of real markets. Students are encouraged to join lab projects or projects in the financial industry before taking an active role as decision makers. The Financial Engineering Lab objectives are to preform model validation of bench mark pricing models and to test them on historical data as well as live streaming data.
Lab Research
Submitted by Gal Zahavi on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 16:46
Research Areas
Risk Management
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a) FEER Index - Forecasting Extreme Events Risk
Amitay Kauffmann, Gal Zahavi.
b) PROFIT Index - Pertinent Risk of Financial Investment
Amitay Kauffmann, Haim Shalit, Gal Zahavi.
Intrest Rate analysis.
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a) Extraction of Economies Aggregate Expectations, Using a Modified Yield Spread Approach.
Denis Geidman, Tzachu Perry.
Option Pricing Theory.
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a) Continuous Approximation to Discrete Time Hedging
Ido Ariav.
b) Performance evaluation of High Moments trading
Gal Zahavi.
c) Pricing and Hedging Derivative in Extreme Events
Ilan Geller, Gal Zahavi.
Credit Risk.
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a) Default Sensitivity Under Altman Z-Score Framework.
Michal Marom, Tal Moshe, Ron Presburger, Ziv Wangenheim
Tal Moshe, Ron Presburger
c) Systematic Risk Impact on Credit Defulat
Libi Ashkenazy, Kseniya Gluskin, Veronica Liberzon
Portfolio Management.
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a) Improved Portfolio Management by Greenblat’s Stock Picking Technique
Eran Ezra, Michael Vurgaft, Leonid Borin, Arkadi Podlisker
b) Incorporatin Tail Risk Events to Optimal Portfolio Management.
Guy Segal, Guy Varon
Renewable energy markets and emission trading.
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a) Weather Derivative Pricing With Nonlinear Weather Forecasting
Yaron Rosenstein, Gal Zahavi.
b) Construction of Solar Energy Index.
Jumana Amit, Yehuda Batash, Michael Vurgaft.
c) Possible investment schemes in the renewable energy industry
Michal Marom, Tal Moshe, Ron Presburger, Ziv Wangenheim
d) Market Analysis of Wind Power Investment
Ricardo Rio.
e) Carbon Trade - Capitat Market Structure
Livio Gal.
Microstructure and Liquidity Risk.
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a) On-line learning optimization of Market Making strategy.
Ori Gil, Gal Zahavi.
Bela Dubrov, Gal Zhavi.
Behavioral Finance and Artificial Markets.
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a) Agitated Losses and Relaxed Gain
Eldad Yechiam, Gal Zahavi
b) Loss restlessness and gain calmness: Durable effects of losses and gains on choice switching
Eldad Yechiam, Gal Zahavi
Time Series Analysis.
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a) Nonlinear chaos in temperature time series: Case studies
Yaron Rosenstein, Gal Zahavi
a) Extracting diffusion jump arrival rate from stock prices.
Yaniv Ling.
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Constructing a scientific paper.
How to improve your writing skiles.
