Alex Lipton

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mount Scopus

Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905

Israel

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

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Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19 (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 31 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2021
Marcos Lopez de Prado, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Alex Lipton
Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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COVID-19, nowcasting, machine learning, Monte Carlo, backtesting, backtest overfitting

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A Closed-Form Solution for Optimal Mean-Reverting Trading Strategies

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2020
Alex Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Marcos Lopez de Prado
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
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optimal trading strategy, Heat potentials, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, mean-reversion

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Exit Strategies for COVID-19: An Application of the K-SEIR Model (Presentation Slides)

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Alex Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Marcos Lopez de Prado
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
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COVID-19, pandemic, SEIR, case fatality rate, reproductive numbers, lockdowns

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Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19

Risk Magazine, April 2020.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 01 May 2020
Alex Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Marcos Lopez de Prado
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
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COVID-19, pandemic, SEIR, case fatality rate, reproductive numbers, lockdowns

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SPX, VIX and Scale-Invariant LSV

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Alex Lipton and Adil Reghai
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ADIA
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VIX, LSV, Scale, Invariance, Barriers, Volatility swaps, Scenario generation

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Kelvin Waves, Klein-Kramers and Kolmogorov Equations, Path-Dependent Financial Instruments: Survey and New Results

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 09 Sep 2023
Alex Lipton
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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affine processes, Kelvin waves, Klein-Kramer equation, Kolmogorov equation, stochastic volatility, path-dependent options

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Automated Market-Making for Fiat Currencies

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 Oct 2021
Alex Lipton and Artur Sepp
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clearstar AG
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Cryptocurrencies, Automated Market Making, Decentralized Finance, Blockchain, Decentralized Exchanges, Central Bank Digital Currencies

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Credit Value Adjustment for Credit Default Swaps via the Structural Default Model

The Journal of Credit Risk, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 127-150, 2009
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 22 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2013
Alex Lipton and Artur Sepp
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clearstar AG
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counterparty risk, jump-to-default

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Filling the Gaps

Risk Magazine, October 2011, 66-71
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Sep 2012
Alex Lipton and Artur Sepp
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clearstar AG
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local volatility, diffusion with tiled volatility

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Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19: Lessons from the K-SEIR Model

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 17 May 2022
Alex Lipton, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Marcos Lopez de Prado
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial EngineeringAbu Dhabi Investment Authority
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COVID-19, pandemic, SEIR, K-SEIR, epidemiology, case fatality rate, reproductive numbers, lockdowns

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Toward an Efficient Hybrid Method for Pricing Barrier Options on Assets With Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Apr 2022
Alex Lipton and Artur Sepp
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clearstar AG
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barrier options, stochastic volatility, Heston model, heat potentials, semi-analytical solution, Volterra equation, Willards' formula

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Simulation in the Real World

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 31 Aug 2016
Russell Barker, Andrew Samuel Dickinson and Alex Lipton
Independent, Bank of America and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Asset Pricing, Risk Management, Risk-Neutral Pricing, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Esscher Transform

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Stochastic Volatility Models and Kelvin Waves

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Vol. 41, 2008
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Sep 2012
Alex Lipton and Artur Sepp
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Clearstar AG
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Stochastic volatility, Stein-Stein model, Heston model

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Asymptotics for Exponential Levy Processes and Their Volatility Smile: Survey and New Results

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 28 Jun 2012
Leif B. G. Andersen and Alex Lipton
Bank of America and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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option pricing, Levy processes, local volatility processes, small-time asymptotics, large-time asymptotics, wing asymptotics

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(Preface) Credit Correlation: Life after Copulas

CREDIT CORRELATION: LIFE AFTER COPULAS, Alexander Lipton, Andrew Ronnie, eds., World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Alex Lipton and Andrew Rennie
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Merrill Lynch & Co. - Merrill Lynch, UK
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credit derivatives, Gaussian copulas, tranches, credit baskets, base correlations

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Toward a Public-Key Management Framework for Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers

Electronic version of an article published as [The Journal of FinTech, Volume 1, Number 1, 2021, 27 pages] [https://doi.org/10.1142/S2705109920500017] © [copyright World Scientific Publishing Company]
Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Lipton and Alex Pentland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Virtual asset, virtual asset service provider, blockchain, public-keycerticates, key management