Modeling multi-factor financial derivatives by a Partial Differential Equation approach with efficient implementation on Graphics Processing Units Duy Minh Dang Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2011 This thesis develops efficient modeling frameworks via a Partial Differential Equation (PDE) approach for multi-factor financial derivatives, with e...

We propose a novel, risk-based transmission mechanism for the effects of currency manipulation: policies that systematically induce a country’s currency to appreciate in bad times lower its risk premium in international markets and, as a result, lower the country’s risk-free interest rate and increase domestic capital accumulation and wages. Currency manipulations by large countries also have e...

This paper develops a fully microfounded two-sector DGE model for a small open economy subject to credit market imperfections (CMIs) and balance sheet problems (due to the presence of a currency mismatch). Specifically, some agents in this economy face credit constraints to finance investment due to information asymmetries and, while their assets are denominated in the domestic currency, their ...