Good thesis topic for financial mathematics?

[Aminem]

Please tell good topics for financial mathematics thesis?
Thanks alot

 

[Daniel Duffy]

How long is a piece of string?

 

[Pavlos Sakoglou]

How long is a piece of string?

Mystery Solved Vol. 2: how long is a piece of string - Wiktionary
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[Ken Abbott]

Please tell good topics for financial mathematics thesis?
Thanks alot

Have the statistical properties of financial markets changed since the crisis?
Time series: ARCH/GARCH, ARIMA
Cointegration
Correlation structure
PCA of swap curves

 

[rajanS]

Have the statistical properties of financial markets changed since the crisis?
Time series: ARCH/GARCH, ARIMA
Cointegration
Correlation structure
PCA of swap curves

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I worked on a project regarding statistical properties of crude oil / natural gas market/ cointegration modeling in presence of structura l breaks in time series. I even performed causality analysis post crisis

Practically, cointegration existed prior to 2009 until a decouling effect took over due to introduction of hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling. Increased supply of shale nat gas depressed these prices considerably.

If you slide all the way down, you will notice i performed regime switching in presence of co-integration and found should regime shifts underly changes in the time series.

How about recommending me based on practical work/ research experience ?

 

[Houston Hunter]

You're not going to find a good pair for crude. Use pairstradinglab.com to search for pairs based on cointegration, R squared, etc. Given searching for pairs based on a certain stat isn't extremely relevant in industry, for a thesis, you can find a few good ones.

With that said, do some work on using neural nets to predict share price/value (whatever angle you wish to take) based on earnings reports. Hint: use R, there is already a couple of good nnet packages available. From my expirence, academics like the use of neural nets if you can back up your model.

Good luck!