Academic research
Preprints:
Risky Sovereign Capital Structure: Fundamentals, 2015. [SSRN]
Risky Sovereign Capital Structure: Macrofinancial Diagnostics, 2015. [SSRN]
Risky Sovereign Capital Structure: Relative Value and Arbitrage, 2015. [SSRN]
Inside the EMs Risky Spreads and CDS-Sovereign Bonds Basis, 2015. [SSRN]
- Challenges in Derivatives Markets, Munich 2015 (a shorter version in a book chapter, ref. below)
Multi-currency (Risky) Sovereign Bonds Arbitrage: A Dynamic Factors Approach, 2015. [SSRN]
Local Currency Intricacies: IR Derivatives, Quantos, OIS Discounting, and XVA, 2018. [SSRN]
Strategic and Tactical Ideas in Fixed Income and Derivatives Trading Strategies and Active Portfolio Management, 2018.
Inside the Currency Board Arrangement Risky Spreads and Credit Default Swap - Sovereign Bonds Basis, with Prodanov, K., Totkov, A., 2015. [SSRN]
Dynamic CDO Pricing and Hedging in a Forward Setting, 2015. [SSRN]
Inside the CDO Correlation Surface, 2015. [SSRN]
Bootstrapping a Single-Tranche CDO, 2015. [SSRN]
Portfolio Credit Derivatives Top Down Dependence Diagnostics via Majorization, 2016. [SSRN]
Optimal Financial Portfolios via Majorization: The Static Case, 2017. [SSRN]
Systemic Financial Turmoil: Inside the Subprime and the Eurozone Crises Quantitative Architecture and Empirics, 2015. [SSRN]
Publications:
The Bulgarian Foreign and Domestic Debt - A No-Arbitrage Macrofinancial View, The William Davidson Institute at the UMichigan, WP 1032, 2012. [SSRN]
Compound Real Option Valuation with Phase-Specific Volatility: A Multi-Phase Mobile Payments Case Study, with Cassimon, D., Engelen, P. J., Technovation 31, 240-255, 2011. [SSRN]
Incorporating Technical Risk in Compound Real Option Models to Value a Pharmaceutical R&D Licensing Opportunity, with Cassimon, D., De Backer, M., Engelen, P. J., Van Wouwe, M., Research Policy, 40, 1200-1216, 2011. [SSRN]
Decomposing the Value of a Pharmaceutical Firm, with Cassimon, D., Engelen, P. J., International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine, 20(2):87-97, 2006. [SSRN]
Book chapters:
Innovations in Derivatives Markets: Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and Regulation, Editors: Glau, K., Grbac, Z., Scherer, M., Zagst, R. (Eds.), Springer, 2016
Book projects:
TBA
Work in progress:
Risky Sovereign Capital Structure: Coupon Bonds Pricing, 2019 (status - final review)
Risky DM and Monetary Union Sovereign Capital Structure: Fundamentals, 2019 (status - final review)
Inside the Risky Sovereign Spreads and CDS-bond Basis: EMs, DMs, and the Eurozone: A Comparative Study, 2019 (status - final review)
Inside the Risky Sovereign Spreads Risk Premia: EMs, DMs, and the Eurozone, 2019 (status - final review)
Inside the Risky Sovereign Multi-currency and Inflation-linked Bonds, 2019 (status - final review)
Corporate Bonds Arbitrage: A Dynamic Factors Approach, 2019 (status - final review)
Dynamic Hedging and Vol Risk-Premium in Interest Rate and Inflation Derivatives, 2019 (status - final review)
Dynamic Hedging and Vol Risk-Premium in FX Derivatives, 2019 (status - final review)
Dynamic Hedging and Vol Risk-Premium in Equity Derivatives, 2019 (status - final review)
Optimal Fixed Income and Equity Portfolios via Orthogonal Factors, 2019 (status - final review)
Optimal Fixed Income and Equity Portfolios via Machine Learning, 2019 (status - final review)
Alpha Ideas in Equity and FX HFT and STS, 2019 (status - final review)
Currency Board Arrangement Capital Structure Macrofinancial Diagnostics, 2014 (status - in progress)
Three Curves, Ones Sovereign: The Russian and Turkish Foreign and Domestic Debt Macrofinancial Diagnostics (status - in progress)