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» Alexandru Badescu
Alexandru Badescu
Professor
Statistics and Actuarial Science
+1 (403) 220-3963
Mathematical Sciences 576
abadescu@ucalgary.ca
Research Interests
Mathematical Finance:
Financial mathematics
Finance time series analysis
Financial & Economic model building and forecasting
Actuarial Science:
Actuarial Science
Statistics:
Machine Learning
Currently Teaching
W2024 - ACSC 515 - Models for Financial Economics
Details
LEC 1
MWF 12:00 - 12:50
MS 431
view past courses
Publications
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
Augustyniak, Maciej, Badescu, Alexandru and Bégin, Jean-François
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A Discrete-Time Hedging Framework with Multiple Factors and Fat Tails: On What Matters
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. Journal of Econometrics
232.2 (2023): 416-444. Print.
Augustyniak, Maciej, Badescu, Alexandru and Boudreault, Mathieu
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On the measurement of hedging effectiveness for long term investment guarantees
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. Journal of Risk and Financial Management
(to appear), Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Quaye, Enoch and Tunaru, Radu
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On Non-negative Equity Guarantee Calculations with Macroeconomic Variables Related to House Prices
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
103. (2022): 119-138. Print.
Augustyniak, Maciej, Badescu, Alexandru and Guo, Zhiyu
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Lattice-based hedging schemes under GARCH models
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. Quantitative Finance
21.5 (2021): 697-710. Print.
Augustyniak, Maciej and Badescu, Alexandru
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On the computation of hedging strategies in affine GARCH models
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. Journal of Futures Markets
41.5 (2021): 710-735. Print.
Cao, Hongkai, Badescu, Alexandru, Cui, Zhenyu and Jayaraman, Sarath Kumar
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Valuation of VIX and Target Volatility Options with affine GARCH models
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. Journal of Futures Markets
40.12 (2020): 1880-1917. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Chen, Yuyu, Couch, Matthew and Cui, Zhenyu
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Variance swaps valuation under non-affine GARCH models and their diffusion limits
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. Quantitative Finance
19.2 (2019): 227-246. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Cui, Zhenyu and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Closed-form variance swap prices under general affine GARCH models and their continuous-time limits
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. Annals of Operations Research
282. (2019): 27-57. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Cui, Zhenyu and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Non-affine GARCH option pricing models, variance dependent kernels, and diffusion limits
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. Journal of Financial Econometrics
15.4 (2017): 602-648. Print.
Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru, Haberman, Steven and Kim, Eun-Seok
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Efficient Risk Allocation within a Non-life Insurance Group under Solvency II Regime
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
66. (2016): 69-76. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, del Castillo, Joan and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Hedging of time discrete auto-regressive stochastic volatility options
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. Annals of Economics and Statistics
123-124. (2016): 271-306. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Zhenyu, Cui and Juan-Pablo, Ortega
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A note on the Wang transform for stochastic volatility pricing models
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. Finance Research Letters
19. (2016): 189-196. Print.
Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru, Siu, Tak Kuen and Zinchenko, Yuriy
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Capital Requirements and Optimal Investment with Solvency Probability Constraints
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. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
26.(4) (2015): 345-375. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Elliott, Robert and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Non-Gaussian GARCH Option Pricing Models and their Continuous Time Limits
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. European Journal of Operational Research
247.(3) (2015): 820-830. Print.
Asanga, Sujith, Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru and Haberman, Steven
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Portfolio Optimization under Solvency Constraints : a Dynamical Approach
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. North American Actuarial Journal
18.(3) (2014): 394-416. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Elliott, Robert and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Quadratic Hedging Schemes for non-Gaussian GARCH Models
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. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
42. (2014): 13-32. Print.
Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru and Cheung, Ka Chun
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Optimal reinsurance in the presence of counterparty default risk
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
53.(3) (2013): 690-697. Print.
Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru and Tsanakas, Andreas
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Optimal Risk Transfers in Insurance Groups
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. European Actuarial Journal
3. (2013): 159-190. Print.
Asimit, Alexandru, Badescu, Alexandru and Verdonck, Tim
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Optimal Risk Transfer under Quantile-Based Risk Measures
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
53.(1) (2013): 252-265. Print.
Elliott, Robert, Siu, Tak Kuen and Badescu, Alexandru
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On Pricing and Hedging Options in Regime-Switching Models with Feedback Effect
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. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
35.(2) (2011): 694-713. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Elliott, Robert, Kulperger, Reg, Miettinen, Jarko and Siu, Tak Kuen
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A Comparison of Pricing Kernels for GARCH Option Pricing with Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions
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. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance
14.(5) (2011): 669-708. Print.
Elliott, Robert, Siu, Tak Kuen and Badescu, Alexandru
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Bond Valuation Under Discrete and Continuous Time Regime-Switching Term-Structure Models
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. Managerial Finance
37.(11) (2011): 1025 - 1047. Print.
Elliott, Robert, Siu, Tak Kuen and Badescu, Alexandru
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On Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection under a Hidden Markovian Regime Switching Model
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. Economic Modelling
27. (2010): 678-686. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Elliott, Robert and Siu, Tak Kuen
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Esscher Transforms and Consumption-Based Models
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
45. (2009): 337-347. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru and Kulperger, Reg
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GARCH Option Pricing : a Semiparametric Approach
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. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
43. (2008): 69-84. Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Kulperger, Reg and Lazar, Emese
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Option Valuation with Normal Mixture GARCH Models
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. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
12.(2) (2008): 1-40. Print.
Preprint
Guo, Zhiyu, Augustyniak, Maciej and Badescu, Alexandru
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Efficient implementation of tree-based option pricing and hedging algorithms under GARCH models
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. submitted
, (2023). Print.
Augustyniak, Maciej, Badescu, Alexandru, Bégin, Jean-François and Jayaraman, Sarath Kumar
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Long memory in option pricing: A fractional discrete-time approach
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. submitted
, (2022). Print.
Badescu, Alexandru, Elliott, Robert, Grigoryeva, Lyudmila and Ortega, Juan-Pablo
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Option pricing and hedging under non-affine autoregressive stochastic volatility models
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. submitted
, (2016). Print.
Courses
Degrees
PhD - Statistics
University of Western Ontario
, 2007
MSc - Statistics
University of Western Ontario
, 2002
BSc - Mathematics
University of Bucharest, 1999
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