Yangyong Zhang

Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics

55 Water Street

New York, NY 10041

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

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Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Estimating Flexible, Fat-Tailed Conditional Asset Return Distributions

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2012
Craig A. Friedman, Yangyong Zhang and Wenbo Cao
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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Minimum Relative U−Entropy, Conditional Probability Distribution, Fat-tailed, Power-Law Distribution, Heteroskedastic, Financial Data, Asset Returns

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Estimating Future Transition Probabilities when the Value of Side Information Decays, with Applications to Credit Modeling

Journal of Risk Volume 14/Number 1, Fall 2011
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Craig A. Friedman, Jinggang Huang and Yangyong Zhang
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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Transition probability model, side information, information value decay, credit model, hazard rate model, default probability model, rating transition model, information theory, minimumrelative entropy principle, conditional relative entropy, robust model

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Estimating Flexible, Fat-Tailed Asset Return Distributions

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2012
Craig A. Friedman, Yangyong Zhang and Jinggang Huang
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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Minimum Relative U−Entropy, Probability Distribution, Fattailed, Power-Law Distribution, Financial Data, Asset Returns

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Engineering More Effective Weighted Monte Carlo Option Pricing Models

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2013
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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Minimum Relative U-Entropy, Weighted Monte Carlo, Option Pricing, Swaptions, Equity Index Options, Student-t distributions, Fat-tailed distributions

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Imputation Via Copula and Transformation Methods, With Applications to Financial and Economic Data

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Dec 2010
Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics, State++, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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Missing Variable Imputation, Generalized T-Distribution, Arellano-Valle and Bolfarine’s Generalized T−Distribution, Copula, Mixture Models, Quadrature

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A Method to Find Diverse and Manageable Sets of Plausible Yet Severe Financial Scenarios

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Jan 2014
Craig A. Friedman and Yangyong Zhang
State++ and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics
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scenario simulation, stress scenarios, copula models, Basel II and Basel III, loss scenarios, mean center methods, large portfolios, financial systems, sector-specific risk, model misspecification risk

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Joint and Conditional Transformed T−Mixture Models with Applications to Financial and Economic Data

Journal of Risk, Vol. 11, No. 3, Spring 2009
Posted: 09 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2011
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics

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Copula, Conditional Probability Density, Gaussian Mixture Model, t−Mixture Model, Multivariate Probability Distribution, Multivariate t−Distribution, Arellano-Valle and Bolfarine’s Generalized t−distribution, Fat-Tailed, Simulation, Stock Return Distribution, Financial Data, Economic Data

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Estimating Univariate Distributions Via Relative Entropy Minimization: Case Studies on Financial and Economic Data

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), 2010
Posted: 08 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2010
Craig A. Friedman, Yangyong Zhang and Jinggang Huang
State++, Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics and Standard & Poor's - Quantitative Analytics

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Kullback-Leibler relative entropy, maximum likelihood, probability distribution, fat-tailed, point mass, stock return distribution, stock index return distribution, financial data, economic data, California Housing Data