Hawkes processes and some financial applications

Includes bibliographical references. === The self-exciting point process, which is now more commonly known as the Hawkes process, is a model for a point process on the real line introduced by Hawkes (1971). The distinguishing feature of such processes is that they allow all past `events' to aff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lapham, Brendon M
Other Authors: MacDonald, Iain L
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8523