Applied Quantitative Finance
Applied Quantitative Finance

Author: Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-02

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 3662544865

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This volume provides practical solutions and introduces recent theoretical developments in risk management, pricing of credit derivatives, quantification of volatility and copula modeling. This third edition is devoted to modern risk analysis based on quantitative methods and textual analytics to meet the current challenges in banking and finance. It includes 14 new contributions and presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of cutting-edge methods and topics, such as collateralized debt obligations, the high-frequency analysis of market liquidity, and realized volatility. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 revisits important market risk issues, while Part 2 introduces novel concepts in credit risk and its management along with updated quantitative methods. The third part discusses the dynamics of risk management and includes risk analysis of energy markets and for cryptocurrencies. Digital assets, such as blockchain-based currencies, have become popular b ut are theoretically challenging when based on conventional methods. Among others, it introduces a modern text-mining method called dynamic topic modeling in detail and applies it to the message board of Bitcoins. The unique synthesis of theory and practice supported by computational tools is reflected not only in the selection of topics, but also in the fine balance of scientific contributions on practical implementation and theoretical concepts. This link between theory and practice offers theoreticians insights into considerations of applicability and, vice versa, provides practitioners convenient access to new techniques in quantitative finance. Hence the book will appeal both to researchers, including master and PhD students, and practitioners, such as financial engineers. The results presented in the book are fully reproducible and all quantlets needed for calculations are provided on an accompanying website. The Quantlet platform quantlet.de, quantlet.com, quantlet.org is an integrated QuantNet environment consisting of different types of statistics-related documents and program codes. Its goal is to promote reproducibility and offer a platform for sharing validated knowledge native to the social web. QuantNet and the corresponding Data-Driven Documents-based visualization allows readers to reproduce the tables, pictures and calculations inside this Springer book.

Applied Quantitative Finance
Applied Quantitative Finance

Author: Mauricio Garita

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 3030291413

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This book provides both conceptual knowledge of quantitative finance and a hands-on approach to using Python. It begins with a description of concepts prior to the application of Python with the purpose of understanding how to compute and interpret results. This book offers practical applications in the field of finance concerning Python, a language that is more and more relevant in the financial arena due to big data. This will lead to a better understanding of finance as it gives a descriptive process for students, academics and practitioners.

Quantitative Finance
Quantitative Finance

Author: A. Reghai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1137414502

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The series of recent financial crises have thrown open the world of quantitative finance and financial modeling. This book brings together proven and new methodologies from finance, physics and engineering, along with years of industry and academic experience to provide a cookbook of models for dealing with the challenges of today's markets.

Applied Quantitative Methods for Trading and Investment
Applied Quantitative Methods for Trading and Investment

Author: Christian L. Dunis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-01-09

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0470871342

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This book provides a manual on quantitative financial analysis. Focusing on advanced methods for modelling financial markets in the context of practical financial applications, it will cover data, software and techniques that will enable the reader to implement and interpret quantitative methodologies, specifically for trading and investment. Includes contributions from an international team of academics and quantitative asset managers from Morgan Stanley, Barclays Global Investors, ABN AMRO and Credit Suisse First Boston. Fills the gap for a book on applied quantitative investment & trading models Provides details of how to combine various models to manage and trade a portfolio

Applied Quantitative Finance for Equity Derivatives - Third Edition
Applied Quantitative Finance for Equity Derivatives - Third Edition

Author: Jherek Healy

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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In its third edition, this book presents the most significant equitya derivatives models used these days. It is not a book around esoteric or cutting-edge models, but rather a book on relatively simple and standard models, viewed from the angle of a practitioner. A few key subjects explained in this book are: cash dividends for European, American, or exotic options; issues of the Dupire local volatility model and possible fixes; finite difference techniques for American options and exotics; Non-parametric regression for American options in Monte-Carlo, randomized simulations; the particle method for stochastic-local-volatility model with quasi-random numbers; numerical methods for the variance and volatility swaps; quadratures for options under stochastic volatility models; VIX options and dividend derivatives; backward/forward representation of exotics.The January 2021 third edition adds significant details around the physical exercise feature, how to imply the Black-Scholes volatility, the projected successive over-relaxation as well as the recent policy iteration method for the pricing of American options (particularly relevant in the case of negative interest rates), the Andersen-Lake algorithm as fast pricing routine for the case of vanilla American options under the Black-Scholes model, random number generation, antithetic variates, the vectorization of the Monte-Carlo simulation, RBF interpolation of implied volatilities, the Cos method for European option under stochastic volatility models, the Vega in stochastic volatility models. The new text also includes important corrections around the pricing of forward starting and knock-in options with finite difference methods.

An Introduction to Quantitative Finance
An Introduction to Quantitative Finance

Author: Stephen Blyth

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0199666598

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The quantitative nature of complex financial transactions makes them a fascinating subject area for mathematicians of all types. This book gives an insight into financial engineering while building on introductory probability courses by detailing one of the most fascinating applications of the subject.

Methods of Mathematical Finance
Methods of Mathematical Finance

Author: Ioannis Karatzas

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1998-08-13

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 0387948392

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This monograph is a sequel to Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus by the same authors. Within the context of Brownian-motion- driven asset prices, it develops contingent claim pricing and optimal consumption/investment in both complete and incomplete markets. The latter topic is extended to a study of equilibrium, providing conditions for the existence and uniqueness of market prices which support trading by several heterogeneous agents. Although much of the incomplete-market material is available in research papers, these topics are treated for the first time in a unified manner. The book contains an extensive set of references and notes describing the field, including topics not treated in the text. This monograph should be of interest to researchers wishing to see advanced mathematics applied to finance. The material on optimal consumption and investment, leading to equilibrium, is addressed to the theoretical finance community. The chapters on contingent claim valuation present techniques of practical importance, especially for pricing exotic options. Also available by Ioannis Karatzas and Steven E. Shreve, Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1991, 470 pp., ISBN 0-387- 97655-8.

Implementing Models in Quantitative Finance: Methods and Cases
Implementing Models in Quantitative Finance: Methods and Cases

Author: Gianluca Fusai

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-12-20

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 3540499598

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This book puts numerical methods in action for the purpose of solving practical problems in quantitative finance. The first part develops a toolkit in numerical methods for finance. The second part proposes twenty self-contained cases covering model simulation, asset pricing and hedging, risk management, statistical estimation and model calibration. Each case develops a detailed solution to a concrete problem arising in applied financial management and guides the user towards a computer implementation. The appendices contain "crash courses" in VBA and Matlab programming languages.

Discounting, LIBOR, CVA and Funding
Discounting, LIBOR, CVA and Funding

Author: C. Kenyon

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1137268522

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Providing the most up-to-date tools and techniques for pricing interest rate and credit products for the new financial world, this book discusses pricing and hedging, funding and regulation, and interpretation, as an essential resource for quantitatively minded practitioners and researchers in finance.

SABR and SABR LIBOR Market Models in Practice
SABR and SABR LIBOR Market Models in Practice

Author: Christian Crispoldi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1137378646

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Interest rate traders have been using the SABR model to price vanilla products for more than a decade. However this model suffers however from a severe limitation: its inability to value exotic products. A term structure model à la LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is often employed to value these more complex derivatives, however the LMM is unable to capture the volatility smile. A joint SABR LIBOR Market Model is the natural evolution towards a consistent pricing of vanilla and exotic products. Knowledge of these models is essential to all aspiring interest rate quants, traders and risk managers, as well an understanding of their failings and alternatives. SABR and SABR Libor Market Models in Practice is an accessible guide to modern interest rate modelling. Rather than covering an array of models which are seldom used in practice, it focuses on the SABR model, the market standard for vanilla products, the LIBOR Market Model, the most commonly used model for exotic products and the extended SABR LIBOR Market Model. The book takes a hands-on approach, demonstrating simply how to implement and work with these models in a market setting. It bridges the gap between the understanding of the models from a conceptual and mathematical perspective and the actual implementation by supplementing the interest rate theory with modelling specific, practical code examples written in Python.