Jean-Guy Simonato

Professor

Finance department

HEC Montréal

3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine

Montréal (Québec)

Canada

H3T 2A7

514.340.6807


jean-guy.simonato@hec.ca      Curriculum vitae       Google Scholar page


Research:

Simonato, J.G., 2012, New warrant issues valuation with leverage and noisy equity values, working paper.

Denault,, Simonato, Stentoft, 2011,A simulation-and-regression approach for stochastic dynamic programs with endogenous state variables, working paper. 

Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2012, Linearized Nelson-Siegel and Svensson models for the estimation of spot interest rates, forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research.

Dionne, Gauthier, Hammami, Maurice, Simonato, 2011, A Reduced Form Model of Default Spreads with Markov-Switching Macro. Factors, Journal of Banking and Finance 35, 1984-2000.

Simonato, J.G., 2011, The performance of Johnson distributions for Value at risk and expected shortfall computation, Journal of Derivatives 19, 7–24.

Simonato, J.G., 2011, Johnson Binomial trees, Quantitative Finance 11, 1165-1176.

Simonato, J.G., 2011, Computing American option prices in the lognormal jump-diffusion framework with a Markov chain, Finance Research Letters 8, 220-226.

Dionne, G., Gauthier, G., Hammami, K., Maurice, M., Simonato, J.G., 2010, Default Risk in Credit Spread, Financial Management, summer, 707-731.

Denault, M., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2009, Estimation of Physical Intensity Models for Default Risk, Journal of Futures Markets 29, 95-113.

Duan, J.C., Gauthier, G., Sasseville, C., Simonato, J.G., 2006, Approximating the GJR-GARCH and EGARCH Option Pricing Models Analytically, Journal of Computational Finance 9, spring.

Denault, M., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2006, Improving Lattice Schemes Through Bias Reduction, Journal of Futures Markets 26, 733-757.

Raynauld, J., Simonato, J.G., 2005, Studio Teaching in an Undergraduate Course in Options and Futures, International Journal of Finance Education 1, 124-140.

Duan, J.C., Gauthier, G., Sasseville, C., Simonato, J.G., 2003, Approximating American Option Prices in the GARCH Framework, Journal of Futures Markets 23, 915-929.

Duan, J.C., Dudley, E., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2003, Pricing Discretely Monitored Barrier Options by a Markov Chain, Journal of Derivatives 10, 9-31.

Datey, J.Y., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2003, The Performance of Analytical approxi. for the Computation of Asian Quanto-Basket Option Prices, Multinational Finance Journal 7, 55-82.

Duan, J.C., Simonato, J.G., 2002, Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Deposit Insurance Value with Interest Rate Risk, Journal of Empirical Finance 9, 109-132.

Duan, J.C., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 2001, Asymptotic Distribution of the EMS Option Price, Management Science 47, 1122-1132

Duan, J.C., Simonato, J.G., 2001, American Option Pricing under GARCH by a Markov Chain Approximation, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 25, 1689-1718.

Duan, J.C., Gauthier, G., Simonato, J.G., 1999, An Analytical Approximation for the GARCH Option Pricing Model, Journal of Computational Finance 2, 75-116.

Duan, J.C., Simonato, J.G., 1998, Estimating and Testing Exponential Affine Term Structure Models by Kalman Filters, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 13, 111-135.

Duan, J.C., Simonato, J.G., 1998, Empirical Martingale Simulation for Asset Prices, Management Science 44, 1218-1233.

Simonato, J.G., 1993, The Estimation of GARCH Process Under Structural Change, Economic Letters 40, 155-158.

Duan, J.C., Simonato, J.G., 1993, Multiplicity of Solutions in Factor Analysis, Journal of Statistical Computations and Simulations 47, 37-47.

Raynauld, J., Simonato, J.G., 1993, Seasonal BVARS, a Search Along some Time Domain Priors, Journal of Econometrics 55, 203-229.