Michèle Breton
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of adaptive investments on international environmental agreements (IEAs) focused on reducing greenhouse gas ...
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We investigate counterparty credit risk and credit valuation adjustments in portfolios including derivatives with early-exercise opportunities, under a net...
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In this paper we examine the stability of international environmental agreements about a (common) emissions target. By signing the agreement, the parties d...
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We consider a two-stage game in a differentiated duopoly, where firms can pursue both a financial and an environmental objective. We assume that the maximu...
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In this paper we consider a differentiated oligopoly with two product varieties that are supplied by two groups of firms. We assume that firms can change t...
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We study the time evolution of a vertically and horizontally differentiated oligopolistic industry, where firms compete in quantity and are divided into gr...
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In its reform of the US bankruptcy procedure, the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) is proposing to grant a redemption option to junior creditors and let...
BibTeX referenceEquilibria in a two-species fishery
In this paper, we consider a two-species fishery model where the species can have different biological interactions, namely, competitive, symbiotic or prey...
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Wrong-way risk arises when the value of a financial transaction is adversely correlated with the creditworthiness of the counterparty. This paper investiga...
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The third installment of the Basel Accords advocates a capital charge against Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) variability. We propose an efficient numeri...
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We examine the stability of international environmental agreements when they include both adaptation and mitigation policies. We assume that adaptation req...
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We propose an analytical formula for the evaluation of compound options when the underlying asset is described by a two-states Markov regime-switching log-...
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Unlike delta-hedging or similar methods based on Greeks, global hedging is an approach optimizing some terminal criterion that depends on the difference be...
BibTeX referenceTime is money: An empirical investigation of delivery behavior in the U.S. T-bond futures market
One of the most complex early-exercise decisions faced by traders in the financial derivatives markets is with T-Bond futures, due to the combination of mu...
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We study the impact of timing and commitment on adaptation and mitigation policies in the context of international environmental problems. Adaptation polic...
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The recent disappearance of a five-year-maturity gap from the set of Treasury bonds deliverable into the Chicago Board of Trade Treasury bond futures has res...
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Reforming energy consumption subsidies, in particular for fossil fuels, has been frequently referred to as a quick-win policy to enhance environmental miti...
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In early 2001, the U.S. Department of the Treasury suspended the issuance of 30-year bonds, and then resumed issuing its long paper in early 2006. As a res...
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We introduce an efficient approach to evaluate counterparty risk and we compute the Credit Valuation Adjustement for derivatives having early exercise feat...
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This paper provides an investigation into an anomaly called a short squeeze, in the CBOT T-Bonds Futures Market, for the period spanning January 1985 to Se...
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We introduce an efficient approach to evaluate counterparty risk and compute the Credit Value Adjustement for derivatives having early exercise features. The...
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We propose a new numerical method for evaluating long-maturity American put options. Most existing numerical approaches are based on the time discretization...
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This paper proposes a dynamic game model of the process through which countries join international environmental agreements (IEAs). The model assumes that ...
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This paper analyzes the coalitional Great Fish War model under the assumption that players differ in their time preferences and use different discount rate...
BibTeX referenceApproximation of Dynamic Programs
Under some standard market assumptions, evaluating a derivative implies computing the discounted expected value of its future cash flows. In that context, th...
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We consider a duopoly competing in quantity, where firms can invest in both innovative and absorptive R&D to reduce their unit production cost, and where t...
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It is now well known that in order to solve global environmental problems, such as global warming, a volunteer participation of sovereign countries to inte...
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We study the welfare effects of Price Cap Regulation (PCR) and the strategic behaviour it may induce in gas transportation networks by analyzing a stylized g...
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We extend the contingent claims framework for the levered firm in explicitly modeling the resolution of financial distress under formal bankruptcy as a non-c...
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We develop a contingent claims model of a firm in financial distress with a formal account for renegotiations under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedure. Sh...
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This paper reviews the use of Fourier transform methods in the pricing of contingent claims. This is a very promosing topic in finance, given the scarcity ...
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We explore the implications of the farsightedness assumption on the conjectures of players in a coalitional Great Fish War model with symmetric players, deri...
BibTeX referencePricing the CBOT T-Bonds Futures
The aim of this paper is to investigate the pricing of the Chicago Board of Trade Treasury-Bond futures. The difficulty to price it arises from its multiple ...
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In this paper, we propose a Partial Differential Equation formulation for the value of an option when the underlying asset's price is described by a discrete...
BibTeX referenceStability of International Environmental Agreements: An Illustration with Asymmetrical Countries
In this paper we use a dynamic model to analyze the composition and stability of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in an asymmetrical framework. ...
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In this paper we develop a model to analyze, in a dynamic framework, how countries join international environmental agreements (IEAs). In the model, where co...
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The main purpose of this paper is to apply the True Notional Bond System (TNBS) proposed by Oviedo (2006) for the theoretical pricing of the Chicago Board ...
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This paper analyzes competition between mutual funds in a multiple funds version of the model of Hugonnier and Kaniel [18]. We characterize the set of equili...
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We use a stylized gas system to study the use of access-to-gas storage in a seasonal model. In a duopoly setting, we find that welfare is higher under vert...
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In this paper, we develop an efficient algorithm to price options under discrete time GARCH processes. We propose a procedure based on dynamic programming c...
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This paper proposes a two-player, finite-horizon differential game model to analyze joint implementation in environmental projects, one of the flexible mech...
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Installment options are a generalization of compound options, where the holder periodically decides whether to keep an option alive or not by paying the ins...
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We investigate the effects of a price cap regulation on the consumer’s surplus within the framework of two gas ownership structures. In the case of a firm o...
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We study in this paper dynamic equilibrium advertising strategies in a duopoly with asymmetric information structure. The advertising model of Lanchester is...
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We consider a differentiated duopoly where firms invest in research and development (R&D) to reduce their production cost. We show that if the firms pl...
BibTeX referenceDynamic R&D with Strategic Behavior
We consider a two-player infinite-horizon discrete-time game where the players invest in R&D in order to develop a new technology to reduce production costs....
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We propose a Dynamic Programming (DP) approach combined with approximation for pricing options embedded in bonds, the focus being on call and put options wit...
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This paper proposes a two-player, finite-horizon differential game model to analyze joint implementation in environmental projects, one of the flexible mecha...
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Using an inifinite-horizon two-player differential game, we derive and compare Bertrand and Cournot equilibria, for a differentiated duopoly engaging in proc...
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The objective of this paper is to provide a game-theoretic interpretation of joint implementation in environmental projects. We consider a two-player game an...
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Installment options are Bermudan-style options where the holder periodically decides whether to exercise or not and then to keep the option alive or not (by ...
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We ask whether young agents prefer to work in different-age or same-age production pairs in an overlapping-generations model where wages are reputation-base...
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Call and put options embedded in bonds are of American-style, and cannot be priced in a closed-form. In this paper, we formulate the problem of pricing thes...
BibTeX referenceCharacteristic Functions, Coalitions Stability and Free-riding in a Game of Pollution Control
We consider a set of countries that wish to sign an international agreement to control pollution. The problem is studied from the perspective of cooperativ...
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This paper presents a decomposition approach for the solution of the dynamic programming formulation of the Unit Loading Problem in hydroplant management. T...
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We analyze the extent to which intergenerational teams provide information on workers' productivity in the long run. We use a dynamic stochastic framework ...
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This paper presents a dynamic programming approach for the solution of the Unit Loading Problem in hydroplant management. The model accounts for losses in t...
BibTeX referenceAn Oil Pipeline Design Problem
We consider a given set of offshore platforms and onshore wells, producing known (or estimated) amounts of oil, to be connected to a port. Connections may t...
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Pricing Asian options based on the arithmetic average, under the Black and Scholes model, involves estimating an integral (a mathematical expectation) for w...
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We consider an asymmetric duopoly producing a homogeneous commodity and facing a competitive demand. Our model incorporates two asymmetries. The first one i...
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A hedger of a contingent claim may decide to partially replicate on some states of nature and not on the others: A partial hedge initially costs less than a...
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This paper studies the informational content of elective teams in a dynamic agency framework with adverse selection. Two agents with different employment hi...
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In this paper, we present a scenario aggregation algorithm for the solution of the dynamic minimax problem in stochastic programming. We consider the case w...
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In this paper, we present algorithms for the solution of the dynamic minimax problem in stochastic programs. This dynamic minimax approach is suggested for ...
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The objective of this paper is to study optimal pricing strategies in a duopoly, under an asymmetric information structure, where the appropriate solution c...
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In this paper, we present three algorithms for the solution of a large-scale zero-sum two-player stochastic game in discrete time, with a finite state set a...
BibTeX referenceApplication of Stochastic Programming to Medium and Long Term Planning in the Refining Industry
The refining industry is faced with medium and long term planning problems (e.g. crude supply, stocks, capacity decisions) where an important part of the da...
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In this paper, we present decomposition algorithms for the solution of large scale stochastic dynamic problems, with convergence results and implementation ...
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In this paper, we suggest an approximation procedure for the solution of two-player zero-sum stochastic games with continuous state and action spaces simila...
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The aim of this paper is the characterization and the computation of equilibrium solutions in multistage games represented by networks. More specifically, w...
BibTeX referenceAlgorithms for Stochastic Games
In this paper, we present algorithms for the solution of finite discounted stochastic games, without special structure. Three equilibrium concepts are consi...
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The concept of ϵ-sequential Stackelberg equilibrium is introduced in the general framework of dynamic two-person games defined in the Denardo contracti...
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Various algorithms for numerical solutions of discounted stochastic games are presented. For zero-sum two-person games, the existing algorithms are compared...
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This paper deals with a class of games defined on a network flow model. The network represents the transformation process of a commodity from its extraction...
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