Jean-Paul LAURENT
Professor of Finance
École de Management de la Sorbonne
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, FRANCE
jean-paul.laurent@univ-paris1.fr



Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective


Cours de Finance (M1) 

Cours du Magistère de Finance et du M2 Finance de Marché et Gestion des Risques


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Published articles and book chapters

An overview of the valuation of collateralized derivatives contracts, 2014, Review of Derivatives Research, volume 17, issue 3, 261-286.
Pricing CDOs with State Dependent Stochastic Recovery Rates, 2012, Quantitative Finance, volume 12, issue 8, 1219-1240.
Hedging default risks of CDOs in Markovian contagion models, 2011, Quantitative Finance, volume 11, issue 12, 1773-1791
A note on the risk management of CDOs, 2011, in Recent Advances in Financial Engineering 2010, Proceedings of KIER-TMU International Workshop on Financial Engineering 2010, Kijima et al. (eds), 43-68, World Scientific.
Dynamic hedging of synthetic CDO tranches: Bridging the gap between theory and practice, 2011, in Credit risk frontiers. The subprime crisis, pricing and hedging, CVA, MBS, ratings and liquidity, T. Bielecki , D. Brigo and F. Patras (eds), Chapter 6, 149-184, Wiley.
Hedging CDO tranches in a Markovian environment, 2010, Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2010, 1-62, R. Carmona and N. Touzi (eds), Springer.
Couverture des risques de défaut dans des modèles de contagion markoviens, 2010, in Financial RIsks - New Developments in Structured Product & Credit Derivatives, Chapter 6, 63-75, C. Gouriéroux and M. Jeanblanc (eds), Economica.
Credit Default Swaption, 2010, in Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance, R. Cont (ed.), Wiley.
A comparative analysis of CDO pricing models under the factor copula approach, 2009, Journal of Derivatives, Vol. 16, n°4, 9-37.
An overview of factor modeling for CDO pricing, 2008, in Frontiers in Quantitative Finance: Credit Risk and Volatility Modeling, R. Cont (ed.), Chapter 7, 185-216, Wiley.
A comparative analysis of CDO pricing models, 2008, in The Definitive Guide to CDOs, G. Meissner (ed.), Chapter 15, 389-427, Risk Books.
Hedging issues for CDOs, 2008, in The Definitive Guide to CDOs, G. Meissner (ed.), Chapter 17, 461-480, Risk Books.
Practical pricing of synthetic CDOs, 2008, in "The Definitive Guide to CDOs", G. Meissner (ed.), Chapter 9, 223-257, Risk Books.
Mortality fluctuations modelling with a shared frailty approach, 2008, Life & Pensions, October, 39-44.
Comparison results for exchangeable credit risk portfolios, 2008, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 42, n°3, 1118-1127.
Spectral risk measures and portfolio selection, 2008, Journal of Banking & Finance,Vol. 32, n°9, 1870-1882.
Beyond the Gaussian copula: stochastic and local correlation, 2007, Journal of Credit Risk, Vol. 3, n°1, 31-62.
Alternative risk measures for alternative investments, 2006, Journal of Risk, Vol. 8, n°4, 1-32.
Basket default swaps, CDOs and factor copulas, 2005, Journal of Risk, Vol. 7, n°4, 103-122.
Credit risk assessment and stochastic LGD's: an investigation of correlation effects, 2005, "Recovery Risk: The Next Challenge in Credit Risk Management", E. Altman, A. Resti, A. Sironi (eds.), Chapter 15, 267-284, Risk Publications, London.
Hedging deposit accounts: a new perspective, 2005, Banque & Marchés, n°75, 28-34.
A bootstrap approach to the price uncertainty of weather derivatives, 2004, Bulletin Français d'Actuariat, Vol. 6, n°12, 153-171.
Double impact: credit risk assessment and collateral value, 2004, Revue Finance, Vol 25, 157-178.
In the core of correlation, 2004, RISK, Octobre, 87-91.
Model risk in the pricing of weather derivatives, 2004, Banque & Marchés, n°72, 5-16.
Aggregation and credit risk measurement in retail banking, 2004, Banque & Marchés, n°70, 5-15.
I will survive, 2003, RISK, June, 103-107, also published in "Derivatives Trading and Option Pricing", N. Dunbar (ed.), Chapter 8, 129-145, Risk Books, 2005 and in "Theory and Practice of Credit Risk Modelling", A. Lipton (ed.), Chapter 14, 211-226, Risk Publications, 2008.
L'assurance et les dérivés de crédit, 2003, in "La Réassurance, approche technique", J. Blondeau et C. Partrat (eds.), Economica, 556-579.
Les dérivés de crédit, 2000, Revue d'Economie Financière, n° 59, 115-134.
Building a consistent pricing model from observed option prices, 2000, “Collected papers of the New York University Mathematical Finance Seminar”, M. Avellaneda (ed.), Volume II, 216-238, World Scientific, ISBN 981-02-4225-5.
Sensitivity analysis of values at risk, 2000, Journal of Empirical Finance, Award Winning Paper, Vol. 7 (3-4), 225-245.
Approximating payoffs and pricing formulas, 2000, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 24, n°11/12, 1721-1749.
On the edge of completeness, Octobre 1999, RISK, 61-65, also published in “Credit Risk Modelling: The Cutting-edge Collection, M. Gordy (ed.), Chapter 8, 51-60, Risk Books, 2003, ISBN 1904339085.
Building models for credit spreads, 1999, Journal of Derivatives, Spring, 27-43.
Distributions implicites anormales des taux de change, 1999, Banque & Marchés, n° 41, 5-16.
Dynamic programming and mean-variance hedging, 1999, Finance and Stochastics, Vol. 3, n°1, 83-110
Estimation of a linear Gaussian model, 1998, Revue Finance, Vol 19, n° 2, 41-69.
Risques financiers : juniors vs seniors, 1998, Revue d'Economie Financière, n° 49, 189-211.
Mean-variance hedging and numéraire, 1998, Mathematical Finance, Vol.8, n°3, 179-200.
La couverture des risques financiers, 1997, Banque & Marchés, n° 31, 53-59.
Les nouvelles formes de gestion de l'épargne : le cadre financier, 1997, Revue d'Economie Financière, n° 42, 57-73.
Les nouvelles techniques financières et la gestion des crédits, 1995, Revue d'Economie Financière, n° 32, 149-165.
Acheter ou louer : les déterminants économiques, 1994, Revue d'Economie Financière, numéro hors-série, 193-203.
Les risques des produits garantis, 1993, Revue d'Economie Financière, n° 24, 11-42.
Les options cachées dans la banque, 1991, Bulletin du Centre d’Information sur l’Epargne et le Crédit, n° 136.
Où en est la théorie de la courbe des taux ?, 1991, Problèmes Economiques, n° 2239, et Bulletin du Centre d’Information sur l’Epargne et le Crédit, n° 134, 8-13, 1990.
Epargne-logement : la bombe tranquille, 1989, Bulletin du Centre d’Information sur l’Epargne et le Crédit, n° 121.
The reliability of control experiments, 1988, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 12, n°1, 173-179.
La Contrainte pétrolière est-elle un obstacle à la croissance française ?, 1988, Economie et Statistique, n° 207, 3-14.

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Academic journals, research papers: [ASTIN Bulletin],[Bulletin Français d'Actuariat],[DefaultRisk],[Deutsche Bank Equities],[European Actuarial Journal],[Finance Contrôle Stratégie],[Financial Econometrics Resarch Center],[Goldman Sachs],[IDEAS],[IME],[Institutional Investors Journals],[JoF related sites ],[Journal of Risk],[mathfinance],[Quantitative Finance],[Ressources Actuarielles],[Revue d'Economie Financiere],[Revue Finance],[RISK],[RiskLab],[SSRN],[Wharton Financial Institutions Center],[Working papers Berkeley],[Working papers FRB].

Professional and Academic associations[Actuarial Foundation],[AFECEI],[AFFI],[AFG-ASFFI],[AFIR/ERM],[Axa Research Fund],[Bachelier Society],[Casualty Actuarial Society],[CDSE],[ERM-II],[ISDA],Fédération Bancaire Française],[FFSA],[EFMA],[FNEGE],[Fondation du Risque],[GARP],[IAFE],[Institut des Actuaires],[Institut Europlace de Finance],[Institut Louis Bachelier],[Institute of Actuaries],[Pension Research Institute],[PRMIA],[Society of Actuaries].

Financial & Insurance compagnies, Risk management software and consulting: [Algorithmics],[Associes en Finance],[eRisks],[Financial Engineering Associates],[Kamakura],[Moodyskmv],[LifeInsurance],[MSCI],[RiskResearch].