LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy

Autores
Bariviera, Aurelio F.; Martín, María Teresa; Plastino, Ángel Luis; Vampa, Victoria Cristina
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
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versión publicada
Descripción
According to the definition of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), contributing banks should give fair estimates of their own borrowing costs in the interbank market. Between 2007 and 2009, several banks made inappropriate submissions of LIBOR, sometimes motivated by profit-seeking from their trading positions. In 2012, several newspapers’ articles began to cast doubt on LIBOR integrity, leading surveillance authorities to conduct investigations on banks’ behavior. Such procedures resulted in severe fines imposed to involved banks, who recognized their financial inappropriate conduct. In this paper, we uncover such unfair behavior by using a forecasting method based on the Maximum Entropy principle. Our results are robust against changes in parameter settings and could be of great help for market surveillance.
Instituto de Física La Plata
Materia
Física
Maximum Entropy
LIBOR manipulation
Interest rates
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
title LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
spellingShingle LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
Bariviera, Aurelio F.
Física
Maximum Entropy
LIBOR manipulation
Interest rates
title_short LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
title_full LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
title_fullStr LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
title_full_unstemmed LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
title_sort LIBOR troubles: Anomalous movements detection based on maximum entropy
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bariviera, Aurelio F.
Martín, María Teresa
Plastino, Ángel Luis
Vampa, Victoria Cristina
author Bariviera, Aurelio F.
author_facet Bariviera, Aurelio F.
Martín, María Teresa
Plastino, Ángel Luis
Vampa, Victoria Cristina
author_role author
author2 Martín, María Teresa
Plastino, Ángel Luis
Vampa, Victoria Cristina
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Física
Maximum Entropy
LIBOR manipulation
Interest rates
topic Física
Maximum Entropy
LIBOR manipulation
Interest rates
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv According to the definition of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), contributing banks should give fair estimates of their own borrowing costs in the interbank market. Between 2007 and 2009, several banks made inappropriate submissions of LIBOR, sometimes motivated by profit-seeking from their trading positions. In 2012, several newspapers’ articles began to cast doubt on LIBOR integrity, leading surveillance authorities to conduct investigations on banks’ behavior. Such procedures resulted in severe fines imposed to involved banks, who recognized their financial inappropriate conduct. In this paper, we uncover such unfair behavior by using a forecasting method based on the Maximum Entropy principle. Our results are robust against changes in parameter settings and could be of great help for market surveillance.
Instituto de Física La Plata
description According to the definition of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), contributing banks should give fair estimates of their own borrowing costs in the interbank market. Between 2007 and 2009, several banks made inappropriate submissions of LIBOR, sometimes motivated by profit-seeking from their trading positions. In 2012, several newspapers’ articles began to cast doubt on LIBOR integrity, leading surveillance authorities to conduct investigations on banks’ behavior. Such procedures resulted in severe fines imposed to involved banks, who recognized their financial inappropriate conduct. In this paper, we uncover such unfair behavior by using a forecasting method based on the Maximum Entropy principle. Our results are robust against changes in parameter settings and could be of great help for market surveillance.
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