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Reversible and Composable Financial Contracts (extended abstract)
Jean Krivine / Julien Prat / Vincent Danos
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Reversible and Composable Financial Contracts (extended abstract)

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by Jean Krivine, Julien Prat, Vincent Danos

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Suggested foundations for market microstructure and execution and risk measurement and stress. Specialist prerequisites vary by paper.

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  1. Order Books

    Read bid, ask, depth and queue-based market state.

  2. Order Flow and Adverse Selection

    Understand why fills and order flow can carry information.

  3. Random Variables and Distributions

    Represent losses as a distribution rather than one forecast.

  4. Expected Shortfall and Other Tail Risk Measures

    Distinguish a loss quantile from the average loss in the tail.

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  1. Market Impact

    Connect trading speed and size to execution cost.

  2. Implementation Shortfall

    Measure execution relative to the decision price.

  3. VaR Estimation in Practice: Variance-Covariance, Historical Simulation, Monte Carlo

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