Fabio Mercurio (born 26 September 1966) is an Italian
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
, internationally known for a number of results in
mathematical finance
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.
Main results
Mercurio worked during his Ph.D. on
incomplete markets In economics, incomplete markets are markets in which there does not exist an Arrow–Debreu security for every possible state of nature. In contrast with complete markets, this shortage of securities will likely restrict individuals from transfer ...
theory using dynamic mean-variance hedging techniques. With
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Main results
Brigo started his work with the ...
(2002–2003), he has shown how to construct
stochastic differential equations
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consistent with
mixture model
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s, applying this to
volatility smile
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modeling in the context of
local volatility A local volatility model, in mathematical finance and financial engineering, is an option pricing model that treats volatility as a function of both the current asset level S_t and of time t . As such, it is a generalisation of the Black–Scho ...
models. He is also one of the main authors in inflation modeling. Mercurio has also authored several publications in top journals and co-authored the book ''Interest rate models: theory and practice'' for Springer-Verlag, that quickly became an international reference for stochastic dynamic interest rate modeling. He is the recipient of the 2020 Risk quant-of-the-year award
Quant of the year award announcement
from Risk Magazine
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jointly with Andrei Lyashenko of QRM for their joint paper Lyashenko and Mercurio (2019).
Affiliations
Currently Mercurio is the global head of Quantitative Analytics at Bloomberg L.P.
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, New York City
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. He holds a Ph.D.
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in mathematical finance from the Erasmus University
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in Rotterdam
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.
Selected publications
* A. Lyashenko and F. Mercurio (2019), "Libor replacement: a modelling framework for in-arrears term rates", Risk Magazine, June 2019, recipient of the "Quant of the year" award.
* F. Mercurio and A. Pallavicini (2006), "Smiling at convexity: bridging swaption skews and CMS adjustments", Risk August, 64–69.
* F. Mercurio and N. Moreni (2006), "Inflation with a smile", Risk March, Vol. 19(3), 70–75.
* L. Bisesti, A. Castagna and F. Mercurio (2005), "Consistent Pricing and Hedging of an FX Options Book", Kyoto Economic Review 74(1), 65–83.
* F. Mercurio (2005), "Pricing Inflation-Indexed Derivatives", Quantitative Finance 5(3), 289–302.
* D. Brigo, F. Mercurio and G. Sartorelli (2003), "Alternative asset-price dynamics and volatility smile", Quantitative Finance 3(3), 173–183.
* D. Brigo and F. Mercurio (2002), "Lognormal-Mixture Dynamics and Calibration to Market Volatility Smiles", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance 5(4), 427–446.
* D. Brigo and F. Mercurio (2001), "A Deterministic-Shift Extension of Analytically-Tractable and Time-Homogeneous Short-Rate Models", Finance and Stochastics 5(3), 369–387.
* F. Mercurio and J. Moraleda (2001), "A Family of Humped Volatility Models", The European Journal of Finance 7, 93–116.
* F. Mercurio (2001), "Claim Pricing and Hedging under Market Incompleteness and Mean-Variance Preferences", European Journal of Operational Research 133/3, 181–198.
* D. Brigo and F. Mercurio (2000), "Option Pricing Impact of Alternative Continuous Time Dynamics for Discretely Observed Stock Prices", Finance and Stochastics 4 (2), 147–160.
* F. Mercurio and J. Moraleda (2000), "An Analytically Tractable Interest Rate Model with Humped Volatility", European Journal of Operational Research 120/1, 205–214.
* F. Mercurio and A.C.F. Vorst (1996), "Option Pricing with Hedging at Fixed Trading Dates", Applied Mathematical Finance 3, 135–158.
* F. Mercurio and W.J. Runggaldier (1993), "Option Pricing for Jump-Diffusion: Approximations and Their Interpretation", Mathematical Finance 3, 191–200.
References
External links
Fabio Mercurio's personal web page
Fabio Mercurio's research papers
at the Social Science Research Network
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Fabio Mercurio's citations
at Google Scholar
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21st-century Italian mathematicians
Probability theorists
Financial economists
Living people
1966 births