Kris Boudt

 

Assocate Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Assistant Professor of Finance Lessius/KULeuven and VU University Amsterdam
Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven - Belgium
Tel. +32 16 326728   E-mail:
Kris.Boudt (at) econ.kuleuven.be                                                                          


 Research

    Recent research news:   

    Peer-reviewed international publications:

  1. Boudt K. and Petitjean M. 201x. Intraday liquidity dynamics and news releases around price jumps: Evidence from the DJIA stocks.  Journal of Financial Markets, forthcoming. pdf
  2. Boudt K. and Zhang, J. 201x. Jump robust two time scale covariance estimation and realized volatility budgets. Quantitative Finance, forthcoming. pdf
  3. Boudt K., Cornelissen J. and Croux C. 2013. The impact of a sustainability constraint on the mean-tracking error efficient frontier.  Economics Letters 119, 255-260. pdf webappendix
  4. Boudt K., Carl P. and Peterson B. 2013. Asset allocation with Conditional Value-at-Risk Budgets. Journal of Risk 15 (3), Spring 39-68. pdf
  5. Boudt K., Danielsson J. and Laurent S. 2013. Robust forecasting of dynamic conditional correlation GARCH models. International Journal of Forecasting 29, 244-257. pdf  webappendix
  6. Boudt K., Cornelissen J. and Croux C. 2012. Jump robust daily covariance estimation by disentangling variance and correlation components.  Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 56, 2993-3005. pdf
  7. Boudt K., Cornelissen J. and Croux C. 2012. The Gaussian rank correlation estimator: robustness properties. Statistics and Computing 22, 471-483. pdf
  8. Boudt K., Croux C. and Laurent S. 2011.  Outlyingness weighted covariation. Journal of Financial Econometrics 9, 657-684. pdf  webappendix   
  9. Ardia, D., Boudt, K., Carl, P., Mullen, K. and Peterson, B. 2011. Differential evolution (DEoptim) for non-convex portfolio optimization. R Journal 3, 27-34. pdf   
  10. Boudt K., Croux C. and Laurent S. 2011.  Robust estimation of intraweek periodicity in volatility and jump detection. Journal of Empirical Finance 18, 353-367. pdf  code
  11. Boudt K, Caliskan D.  and Croux C. 2011. Robust explicit estimators of Weibull parameters. Metrika 73(2), 187-209. pdf
  12. Boudt K. and Croux C. 2010.  Robust M-estimation of multivariate GARCH models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 54, 2459-2469. pdf  code
  13. Boudt K., Todorov V. and Upadhyaya S. 2009.  Nowcasting manufacturing value added for cross-country comparison.  Statistical Journal of the IAOS: Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics 26 (1-2), 15-20. pdf
  14. Peterson B. and Boudt K. Component VaR for a non-normal world. Risk,  November 2008.  Reprint in Asia Risk. pdf
  15. Boudt K., Peterson B. and Croux C. 2008.  Estimation and decomposition of downside risk for portfolios with non-normal returns.  Journal of Risk 11(2), 79-103.  pdf   

   Book chapters:

  1. Ardia, D. and K. Boudt. 2013. The short-run persistence of performance in funds of hedge funds. In G. Gregoriou (Ed.) Reconsidering funds of hedge funds, Elsevier (pp. 289-301). 
  2. Boudt K., Cornelissen, J., Croux, C. and S. Laurent. 2011. Non-parametric tests for intraday jumps: Impact of periodicity and microstructure noise. In L. Bauwens, C. Hafner and S. Laurent (Eds). Volatility models and their applications (handbook of financial econometrics). Wiley (pp 565-584).  
  3. Boudt K., Lahaye J. and Laurent S. 2009.  Realized volatility and intraday periodicity. In S. Laurent (Ed.) G@RCH 6, Estimating and forecasting ARCH models (pp. 149-193). London, Timberlake Consultants. link      
  4. Boudt K., Peterson B. and Carl P. 2008. Hedge fund portfolio selection with modified expected shortfall. In C. Brebbia, M. Constantino, and M. Larran (Eds.), Computational Finance and its Applications III, WIT Transactions on Modelling and Simulation. WIT, Southampton.   pdf

   Software:

  1. Cornelissen J., Boudt K and Payseur, S. Highfrequencylink  cran  (replaces RTAQ)
  2. Boudt K., Carl P. and Peterson B. PortfolioAnalytics: Portfolio Analysis, including numeric methods for optimization of portfolios. link
  3. Ardia, D. and Boudt K. CompStrat source  bin
  4. Contributions to Ox-package G@RCH, the R package PerformanceAnalytics and the VBA applications of PerformanceAnalysis.

    Working papers:

  1. Boudt, K, De Goei, P, Thewissen, J and Van Campenhout G. 2012. The short term prediction of analysts' forecast errors. RR pdf
  2. Boudt, K, Liu, F. and Sercu P. 2012. Equities exposure to currencies: Beyond the loglinear model. Submitted pdf
  3. Boudt K., Paulus, E. and Rosenthal, D. 2010. Funding liquidity, market liquidity and TED spread: A two-regime model. Work in progress pdf
  4. Ardia, D. and Boudt K. 2012. The peer performance of hedge funds. Work in progress pdf
  5. Boudt, K., Danielsson, J., Koopman, SJ and Lucas, A. 2013. Regime switches in the volatility and correlation of financial institutions. Work in progress pdf

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