Measuring Darknet Markets

Background: A lot of scientists have tried to shed light on dark web markets. They did this by scraping these marketplaces over a period of time and describe what they were seeing. However, the methods used to measure these markets were never validated before. Research goal: This research will identify and validate the methods that are used in...

Proxying Bond Credit Spreads with Machine Learning

The bond market is affected by the shortage of liquidity problem, which means that many bonds are not frequently traded. This implies that market data for these bonds are missing. This lack of data represent a problem for financial risk measures such as Value at Risk (VaR). This research provides the framework for the construction of a proxy...