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Hans Bystrom

Professor of Finance at Lund University
Verified email at nek.lu.se
Cited by 1871

Extreme value theory and extremely large electricity price changes

HNE Byström - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2005 - Elsevier
h forecasts instead of simple 1-h forecasts. At noon each day in the test period we forecast tail
quantiles for the price change over the following 24 h… 1-h forecasts to get 24-h forecasts for …

[BOOK][B] Credit default swaps and equity prices: The iTraxx CDS index market

HNE Byström - 2005 - taylorfrancis.com
… In the simplified model, the default probability is a simple function of the stock price volatility
and the leverage ratio and Byström (2006) shows how the CreditGrades model can be deduced …

Managing extreme risks in tranquil and volatile markets using conditional extreme value theory

HNE Byström - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2004 - Elsevier
… This means that the asymptotic distribution of (normalized) maxima for the non-IID series is
in fact a GEV distribution; more specifically, it is the GEV distribution H Y (y), which we would …

Blockchains, real-time accounting, and the future of credit risk modeling

H Byström - Ledger, 2019 - ledgerjournal.org
In this paper I discuss how blockchains potentially could affect the way credit risk is modeled,
and how the improved trust and timing associated with blockchain-enabled real-time …

CreditGrades and the iTraxx CDS index market

H Byström - Financial Analysts Journal, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
In the study reported, the CreditGrades model was used to calculate credit default swap
spreads and the spreads were compared with empirically observed CDS spreads for eight …

The microfinance collateralized debt obligation: A modern Robin Hood?

HNE Byström - World Development, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to highlight a potentially very fruitful link between micro-entrepreneurs
and international capital markets. It discusses the role structured finance and credit …

The hedging performance of electricity futures on the Nordic power exchange

HNE Byström - Applied Economics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The Nordic Power Exchange (Nord Pool), the first multinational exchange for electricity trading,
has existed since January 1996. Spot and futures contracts are traded on this exchange …

Reduced muscle radiological density, cross-sectional area, and strength of major hip and knee muscles in 22 patients with hip osteoarthritis

A Rasch, AH Byström, N Dalen, HE Berg - Acta orthopaedica, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background Patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) typically suffer joint pain, and often experience
muscular weakness. We hypothesized that substantial atrophy would manifest in multiple …

What drives bitcoin volatility?

H Bystrom, D Krygier - Available at SSRN 3223368, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
Bitcoin is the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Bitcoin is also extremely
volatile, and predicting the volatility of any currency or asset is one of the most fundamental …

Default risk, systematic risk and Thai firms before, during and after the Asian crisis

H Byström, L Worasinchai, S Chongsithipol - Research in international …, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper applies the Merton [Merton, R., 1974. On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk
structure of interest rates. J. Finance 2 (2), 449–470] default probability model to the firms in the …