Just tell them the crisis was caused by an undue love of concavity and a perilous disdain for convexity. If investors worldwide had been less enamoured of financial concavity and less neglectful ...

Convexity refers to how much the shape of the curve changes on a graph showing the link between a bond's price and its yield. What Is Convexity? Convexity is the curvature in the connection ...

The concavity exercise asks students to think about erosion in natural forms and how that concavity contrasts with the convexity of the objects. Dominant, subdominant, and subordinate relationships ...

Convexity analysis alone may have recommended selling $250b in securities, but $100b of the duration issues were addressed elsewhere in the balance sheet so only $150b in MBS's needed to be sold.

"Unlike facial convexity, the skeletal morphology and growth trends of facial concavity are dynamic," Prof. Gang Shen explained. "This makes understanding these patterns crucial for developing both ...

Oscar Wong / Getty Images Duration and convexity are two tools used to manage the risk exposure of fixed-income investments. Duration measures the bond's sensitivity to interest rate changes.

A phenomenon Cole likes to attribute to the presence of shadow convexity in the system. So, while in game theory a single-minded strategy is supposed to be the best strategy because cooperation is ...