Arnaud Dufays, Université Laval

Research

(1) Universal approximators (2) Shrinkage priors (3) Artificial Neural Networks (4) Volatility models (5) Time-varying parameters

Latest funding

Modelling Financial contagions with Artificial Neural networks
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$33,609

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Modelling Financial contagions with Artificial Neural networks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Dufays, Arnaud

Keywords: (1) Universal approximators; (2) Shrinkage priors; (3) Artificial Neural Networks; (4) Volatility models; (5) Time-varying parameters

$33,609

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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