This thesis deals with design of Forex trading strategy. The main goal is to achieve satisfying trading results with strategy based on fundamental and technical analysis. This paper provides brief introduction into the International Interbank Foreign Exchange and describes basic principles of both technical and fundamental analysis. The most important part of this thesis contains the design of trading strategy and description of its implementation. Also the verication of suitability of designed strategy for Forex trading is involved.

[pt] Esta dissertação desenvolve um modelo tratável de formação endógena de redes do mercado interbancário. Devido a choques de liquidez, bancos enfrentam um trade-off entre investir seus recursos num ativo líquido e num ativo ilíquido de alto retorno. O mercado interbancário é modelado como uma rede. Um link estendido por um banco a outro é interpretado como uma linha de crédito da qual o primeiro banco pode tomar emprestado ativos líquidos do segundo para cobrir fluxos de saída de recursos. O Banco Central, através de linhas financeiras, empresta recursos aos bancos com saldos negativos e toma emprestado de instituições com saldos positivos a taxas por ele estabelecidas. Essas taxas definem um corredor no qual a taxa cobrada em empréstimos interbancários deve estar contida. Nesse contexto, caracterizamos o equilíbrio (único) nas decisões de investimento dos bancos para qualquer rede. Em seguida, endogenizamos a rede, através da decisão dos bancos de linhas de crédito, e mostramos que toda rede em equilíbrio é uma rede de núcleo-periferia completa. Esse resultado é consistente com redes empiricamente observadas. Ademais, introduzimos um trade-off para Bancos Centrais ao decidir o corredor de juros: um corredor mais estreito dá mais controle ao Banco Central sobre a taxa interbancária, o que é importante para a condução de política monetária. No entanto, se considerarmos as decisões de links dos bancos, isso pode levar a um equilíbrio com uma rede mais esparsa, onde o investimento total no ativo líquido é maior, o que representa um custo implícito, já que esses recursos poderiam ser investidos no ativo mais produtivo. No geral, nossa análise ressalta o importante papel que redes endógenas têm na transmissão de política monetária. / [en] This paper develops a tractable endogenous network formation model of the interbank market. Due to liquidity shocks, banks face a trade-off between investing their resources in a liquid asset and a high-yield illiquid asset. The interbank market is modeled as a network. A link extended by one bank to another is interpreted as a credit line from which the former bank can borrow a share of the latter s liquid assets to cover liquidity outflows. The central bank, by means of its standing facilities, lends resources to banks that are short in liquidity and borrows from institutions with liquidity surpluses at predetermined rates. These rates establish a corridor in which the rate that banks charge for interbank loans must lie. In this setting, we characterize the unique equilibrium of banks liquidity holdings for any network. We then endogenize the network, via banks decision of credit lines, and provide a sharp equilibrium characterization: every equilibrium network is a complete core-periphery graph. This characterization is consistent with empirically observed networks. Moreover, we introduce a trade-off for central banks when choosing the corridor rate: a narrower corridor implies more precise targeting of the interbank rate, which is important for the conduct of monetary policy. However, if we account for banks linking decisions, this may lead to an equilibrium with a sparser network, where total liquidity holdings are higher, incurring an implicit cost since these funds could be invested in the more productive illiquid asset instead. More generally, our analysis highlights the important role that endogenous networks play in the transmission of monetary policy.

O balanço de uma instituição financeira reflete suas principais decisões estratégicas, a saber, suas decisões de aplicação e captação que determinam os seus resultados. O objetivo desse trabalho é sugerir e testar uma composição para os segmentos do sistema bancário brasileiro baseado nessas decisões estratégicas e, assim, desenhar um perfil de atuação para os bancos no país. Esse trabalho utiliza dados de balancetes públicos padronizados pelo Plano Contábil das Instituições Financeiras (COSIF) e disponibilizados pelo Banco Central do Brasil. Os dados são transversais e a data base escolhida para esse estudo é dezembro de 2004, dez anos após a implantação do Plano Real e a publicação do primeiro artigo do gênero no Brasil por Savoia e Weiss (1995). Muitas transformações aconteceram nesses dez anos, em que pese à redução do sistema bancário de 263 para 140 instituições bancárias operantes. As técnicas multivariadas usadas são: análise de cluster, análise discriminante e escalonamento multidimensional. Os procedimentos hierárquico e não-hierárquico de análise de clusters foram utilizados em seqüência para formar segmentos internamente homogêneos e heterogêneos entre si. A solução escolhida subdivide o sistema bancário brasileiro em cinco grupos: varejo, crédito, tesouraria, intermediação bancária e transição ou outros repasses. Essa solução foi testada por meio de uma análise discriminante com bons resultados do ponto de vista da sua significância prática. O escalonamento multidimensional foi utilizado para propiciar uma solução gráfica que facilitasse a análise dos dados. Os resultados sugeriram que o sistema bancário era bem explicado por esses cinco segmentos. Três deles, os segmentos de varejo, crédito e tesouraria estavam voltados para a atividade-fim do sistema bancário, a intermediação financeira. Dois deles, os segmentos de intermediação bancária e transição ou repasses, foram caracterizados como intermediação da intermediação. Grupos com menor foco na intermediação financeira completa, entre credores e devedores primários, realizada pelos três segmentos anteriores. Levanta-se a hipótese de que o grupo de transição ou repasse representa os novos entrantes do mercado ou bancos com dificuldade de adaptação ao sistema bancário. O fato de mais de 30% dos bancos terem essas características de intermediação da atividade de crédito, ou estarem em busca de novos nichos de atuação sugere que o processo de reestruturação do sistema bancário iniciado em 1994 ainda não está concluído / The balance sheets of financial institutions reveal their primary strategies, namely investment and funding, which determine banks profitability. The aim of the present study was to suggest and try out experiment with a (optimal) combination for the Brazilian banking system markets based on these strategic parameters decisions, and thus, design a course of action for the Brazilian banks. This study relies on public balances provided by the Brazilian Central Bank and standardized by the Accounting Chart for Institutions of the National Financial System (COSIF). Balances chosen for this cross-section study date December, 2004; ten years after the implementation of the Real plan and the publication of the first article of the kind by Savoia and Weiss (1995). During the referred period Brazilian banking system underwent deep transformations and banking institutions were reduced from 263 to 140. The multivariate methods applied to this study comprised cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical cluster procedures were carried out in order to bring about five groups, distinct among themselves, but homogeneous within themselves. The proposal lies in dividing the Brazilian banking system into five major groups: hybrid; credit; treasury; interbanking; and transition or distribution banks. This solution was tested by a discriminant analysis and met practical significance criteria. Multidimensional scaling provided a graphical interface that simplified further analysis. The results suggest the five-group solution is adequate. Three of them, hybrid, credit and treasury banks, perform well-defined bank operations, providing banking intermediation, whereas the other two, interbanking and transition or distribution banks operate as intermediates in the banking system (i.e., an intermediation of the intermediation). Thus, the last two are not so focused on the whole financial intermediation between lenders and borrowers as the three first groups are. It is suggested that such intermediation of credit distribution be a non-profit strategy of the transition or distribution banks for new entrants or banks facing difficulties in fitting in the financial system. Over 30% of the banking system operate as credit intermediates alone or follow a course of action searching for new profitable markets. This high number of transition banks suggests that the Brazilian banking system is still in the process of consolidation.

Before the 2008 financial crisis, most research in financial mathematics focused on the risk management and the pricing of options without considering effects of counterparties’ default, illiquidity problems, systemic risk and the role of the repurchase agreement (Repo). During the 2008 financial crisis, a frozen Repo market led to a shutdown of short sales in the stock market. Cyclical interdependencies among financial corporations caused that a default of one firm seriously affected other firms and even the whole financial network. In this dissertation, we will consider financial markets which are shaped by financial crisis. This will be done from two distinct perspectives, an investor’s and a regulator’s. From an investor’s perspective, recently models were proposed to compute the total valuation adjustment (XVA) of derivatives without considering a potential crisis in the market. In our research, we include a possible crisis by apply an alternating renewal process to describe a switching between a normal financial status and a financial crisis status. We develop a framework for pricing the XVA of a European claim in this state-dependent framework. We represent the price as a solution to a backward stochastic differential equation and prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution. To study financial networks from a regulator’s perspective, one popular method is the fixed point based approach by L. Eisenberg and T. Noe. However, in practice, there is no accurate record of the interbank liabilities and thus one has to estimate them to use Eisenberg - Noe type models. In our research, we conduct a sensitivity analysis of the Eisenberg - Noe framework, and quantify the effect of the estimation errors to the clearing payments. We show that the effect of the missing specification of interbank connection to clearing payments can be described via directional derivatives that can be represented as solutions of fixed point equations. We also compute the probability of observing clearing payment deviations of a certain magnitude.

The dissertation deals with interbank payment systems with finality of settlement in Czech Republic and Slovakia. First chapter defines each payment system based on different criteria and deals with risks related to operation of payment systems. As both countries are members of European Union, same legal documents of European Union apply for both of them. These documents are described in the second chapter. A brief description of payment systems used in European Union is included in the third chapter. There is also described the development of payment flows in European payment systems TARGET, TARGET2 and EURO1. Forth chapter contains global analysis of Czech payment system CERTIS and Slovak payment systems EURO SIPS and TARGET2-SK from different perspectives. Very important part of this dissertation is fifth chapter, where payment systems are analyzed based on the comparison -- number of participants, number of process payments and volumes of these transactions.

Compte-tenu du degré de complexité des interconnexions au sein du système financier mondial, mis en avant pendant la crise financière 2007-2009, l'adoption des modèles de réseaux, comme paradigme d'analyse et d'amélioration de la robustesse du système, paraît particulièrement pertinent, sinon nécessaire. Les institutions financières sont vues comme des nœuds d'un réseau où les transactions interbancaires constituent les liens au travers desquels la propagation des chocs se matérialise. En outre, la crise a également mis en évidence le rôle d'un rationnement de la liquidité comme canal majeur de transmission des chocs. Cette thèse examine les interactions entre les tensions sur le marché monétaire, la contagion interbancaire et la structure du réseau, avec une application au marché interbancaire européen et au système de paiement. La contribution de cette étude à la littérature sur les réseaux financiers s'articule autour de trois axes. Le premier est un modèle intégrant trois canaux de propagation des chocs, à l'œuvre durant la crise 2007-2009, à savoir les expositions à un facteur de risque commun, aux risques de contrepartie et, enfin, au risque de liquidité. Le deuxième axe est une application de ce modèle étudiant les expositions interbancaires dans le système financier européen entre 2008 et 2012, et ce, au niveau individuel des agents, i.e. de banque à banque; constituant ainsi, et à notre connaissance, l'unique contribution académique dans ce domaine. Cette étude souligne notamment le rôle de la structure du réseau dans la propagation des chocs et reproduit la fragmentation du marché européen observée en 2011-2012. Enfin, la troisième contribution porte sur la propension des banques à retarder leurs transactions sur la base des données du système de paiement TARGET2. Cette étude souligne une divergence des comportements des banques au niveau de leur gestion de la liquidité intra-journalière. En effet, deux types de comportements se distinguent à cet égard : le premier consiste à fixer un niveau de liquidité initiale suffisant pour répondre aux besoins de la journée et un second qui a tendance à gérer cette liquidité en flux tendus. Les banques adoptant ce deuxième type de comportement sont à l'origine de la majorité des retards de paiements constatés au niveau du système financier. L'ampleur des retards de paiement est par ailleurs fortement corrélée au niveau des tensions sur le marché, constituant de ce fait un indicateur avancé d'une éventuelle crise à venir.Le résumé substantiel n'a pas été fourni par l'auteur / Given the extent and importance of financial interconnectedness in recent years that were particularly underlined by the 2007-2009 financial crisis, the adoption of the network paradigm to analyze and improve robustness of a financial system appears to be fully relevant. Financial institutions are viewed as nodes of a network and their short- or long-term loans extended to each other as links or exposures through which a shock may propagate. Moreover, the same crisis accentuated the role of funding shortage as a channel of shock transmission. This dissertation focuses on the interplay of liquidity stress, interbank contagion and a network structure with application to the European interbank market and payment system. The contribution of this research to the literature on financial networks is threefold. The first develops a model that allows analyzing three contagion channels that happened to be at play during the financial crisis: exposures to a common risk factor; exposures to credit and counterparty risk in the interbank market; exposures to short-term liquidity risk. The second contribution is the unique analysis of cross-border contagion in the European banking system from 2008 to 2012 at the bank level using the developed model. Overall, the study finds the importance of the network structure for the extent of contagion propagation and captures the fragmentation of the market observed in 2011-2012. The third contribution consists of analysis of payment delays in the European payment system TARGET2. More specifically, this chapter provides evidence that banks differ in the way they manage their daily liquidity and can be split into two groups in this regard: those which put enough initial liquidity into the system, and those which economize on liquidity and rely on incoming payments to make outgoing transactions. The second group is responsible for the majority of the delayed payments, particularly during the period of low liquidity in the market, which constitutes an early warning indicator of stress.

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O balanço de uma instituição financeira reflete suas principais decisões estratégicas, a saber, suas decisões de aplicação e captação que determinam os seus resultados. O objetivo desse trabalho é sugerir e testar uma composição para os segmentos do sistema bancário brasileiro baseado nessas decisões estratégicas e, assim, desenhar um perfil de atuação para os bancos no país. Esse trabalho utiliza dados de balancetes públicos padronizados pelo Plano Contábil das Instituições Financeiras (COSIF) e disponibilizados pelo Banco Central do Brasil. Os dados são transversais e a data base escolhida para esse estudo é dezembro de 2004, dez anos após a implantação do Plano Real e a publicação do primeiro artigo do gênero no Brasil por Savoia e Weiss (1995). Muitas transformações aconteceram nesses dez anos, em que pese à redução do sistema bancário de 263 para 140 instituições bancárias operantes. As técnicas multivariadas usadas são: análise de cluster, análise discriminante e escalonamento multidimensional. Os procedimentos hierárquico e não-hierárquico de análise de clusters foram utilizados em seqüência para formar segmentos internamente homogêneos e heterogêneos entre si. A solução escolhida subdivide o sistema bancário brasileiro em cinco grupos: varejo, crédito, tesouraria, intermediação bancária e transição ou outros repasses. Essa solução foi testada por meio de uma análise discriminante com bons resultados do ponto de vista da sua significância prática. O escalonamento multidimensional foi utilizado para propiciar uma solução gráfica que facilitasse a análise dos dados. Os resultados sugeriram que o sistema bancário era bem explicado por esses cinco segmentos. Três deles, os segmentos de varejo, crédito e tesouraria estavam voltados para a atividade-fim do sistema bancário, a intermediação financeira. Dois deles, os segmentos de intermediação bancária e transição ou repasses, foram caracterizados como intermediação da intermediação. Grupos com menor foco na intermediação financeira completa, entre credores e devedores primários, realizada pelos três segmentos anteriores. Levanta-se a hipótese de que o grupo de transição ou repasse representa os novos entrantes do mercado ou bancos com dificuldade de adaptação ao sistema bancário. O fato de mais de 30% dos bancos terem essas características de intermediação da atividade de crédito, ou estarem em busca de novos nichos de atuação sugere que o processo de reestruturação do sistema bancário iniciado em 1994 ainda não está concluído / The balance sheets of financial institutions reveal their primary strategies, namely investment and funding, which determine banks profitability. The aim of the present study was to suggest and try out experiment with a (optimal) combination for the Brazilian banking system markets based on these strategic parameters decisions, and thus, design a course of action for the Brazilian banks. This study relies on public balances provided by the Brazilian Central Bank and standardized by the Accounting Chart for Institutions of the National Financial System (COSIF). Balances chosen for this cross-section study date December, 2004; ten years after the implementation of the Real plan and the publication of the first article of the kind by Savoia and Weiss (1995). During the referred period Brazilian banking system underwent deep transformations and banking institutions were reduced from 263 to 140. The multivariate methods applied to this study comprised cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, and multidimensional scaling. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical cluster procedures were carried out in order to bring about five groups, distinct among themselves, but homogeneous within themselves. The proposal lies in dividing the Brazilian banking system into five major groups: hybrid; credit; treasury; interbanking; and transition or distribution banks. This solution was tested by a discriminant analysis and met practical significance criteria. Multidimensional scaling provided a graphical interface that simplified further analysis. The results suggest the five-group solution is adequate. Three of them, hybrid, credit and treasury banks, perform well-defined bank operations, providing banking intermediation, whereas the other two, interbanking and transition or distribution banks operate as intermediates in the banking system (i.e., an intermediation of the intermediation). Thus, the last two are not so focused on the whole financial intermediation between lenders and borrowers as the three first groups are. It is suggested that such intermediation of credit distribution be a non-profit strategy of the transition or distribution banks for new entrants or banks facing difficulties in fitting in the financial system. Over 30% of the banking system operate as credit intermediates alone or follow a course of action searching for new profitable markets. This high number of transition banks suggests that the Brazilian banking system is still in the process of consolidation.

Depuis son éruption en septembre 2009, la crise de la zone euro a été au centre de l'attention des économistes et des décideurs politiques. L'objectif principal de cette thèse est de développer des modèles théoriques pertinents afin d'analyser les facteurs à l'origine de la crise jumelle des banques et de la dette souveraine dans une union monétaire avec une architecture institutionnelle globalement similaire de l'Union économique et monétaire avant 2012. Tout en mettant l'accent sur la vulnérabilité financière, nous explorons la relation entre le secteur bancaire, l'économie réelle et le budget du gouvernement dans le contexte d 'une union monétaire. Cette thèse se compose de quatre modèles théoriques de la crise bancaire, avec le premier illustrant la crise financière qui avait éclaté en 2008 dans les petites économies européennes en dehors de l 'UEM et les trois modèles suivants élucidant la situation de crise dans la zone euro en2009 jusqu'en 2012. / In this Ph. D. thesis, we analyze the conditions for the emergence and the aggravation of the recent crisis in Europe from 2008 to 2012. The major objective of this Ph. D. thesis is to develop theoretical models which will be effective in investigating the twin banking and sovereign debt crises in a monetary union with a broadly similar institutional design to the EMU before 2012. Different from 'traditional' financial crisis models that shed light on the role of the central bank in crisis policy response, the models developed in this thesis investigate and underline the importance of fiscal crisis management. White accentuating financial vulnerability, we explore the relationship between the banking sector, the realeconomy and the public budget in the context of a monetary union. This thesis consists of four theoretical models of the banking crisis, with the first framework depicting the financial crisis which burst in 2008 in small European economies outside the EMU and the next three models elucidating the crisis situation in the Eurozone from early 2009 until August 2012.

Cette thèse présente plusieurs extensions relatives aux modèles affines positifs de taux d'intérêt. Un premier chapitre introduit les concepts reliés aux modélisations employées dans les chapitres suivants. Il détaille la définition de processus dits affines, et la construction de modèles de prix d'actifs obtenus par non-arbitrage. Le chapitre 2 propose une nouvelle méthode d’estimation et de filtrage pour les modèles espace-état linéaire-quadratiques. Le chapitre suivant applique cette méthode d’estimation à la modélisation d’écarts de taux interbancaires de la zone Euro, afin d’en décomposer les fluctuations liées au risque de défaut et de liquidité. Le chapitre 4 développe une nouvelle technique de création de processus affines multivariés à partir leurs contreparties univariées, sans imposer l’indépendance conditionnelle entre leurs composantes. Le dernier chapitre applique cette méthode et dérive un processus affine multivarié dont certaines composantes peuvent rester à zéro pendant des périodes prolongées. Incorporé dans un modèle de taux d’intérêt, ce processus permet de rendre compte efficacement des taux plancher à zéro. / This thesis presents new developments in the literature of non-negative affine interest rate models. The first chapter is devoted to the introduction of the main mathematical tools used in the following chapters. In particular, it presents the so-called affine processes which are extensively employed in no-arbitrage interest rate models. Chapter 2 provides a new filtering and estimation method for linear-quadratic state-space models. This technique is exploited in the 3rd chapter to estimate a positive asset pricing model on the term structure of Euro area interbank spreads. This allows us to decompose the interbank risk into a default risk and a liquidity risk components. Chapter 4 proposes a new recursive method for building general multivariate affine processes from their univariate counterparts. In particular, our method does not impose the conditional independence between the different vector elements. We apply this technique in Chapter 5 to produce multivariate non-negative affine processes where some components can stay at zero for several periods. This process is exploited to build a term structure model consistent with the zero lower bound features.