Random Evolutions and their Applications

Random Evolutions and their Applications

Author: Anatoly Swishchuk

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9401595984

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The book is devoted to the new trends in random evolutions and their various applications to stochastic evolutionary sytems (SES). Such new developments as the analogue of Dynkin's formulae, boundary value problems, stochastic stability and optimal control of random evolutions, stochastic evolutionary equations driven by martingale measures are considered. The book also contains such new trends in applied probability as stochastic models of financial and insurance mathematics in an incomplete market. In the famous classical financial mathematics Black-Scholes model of a (B,S) market for securities prices, which is used for the description of the evolution of bonds and stocks prices and also for their derivatives, such as options, futures, forward contracts, etc., it is supposed that the dynamic of bonds and stocks prices are set by a linear differential and linear stochastic differential equations, respectively, with interest rate, appreciation rate and volatility such that they are predictable processes. Also, in the Arrow-Debreu economy, the securities prices which support a Radner dynamic equilibrium are a combination of an Ito process and a random point process, with the all coefficients and jumps being predictable processes.


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.


Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques in Derivatives Hedging

Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques in Derivatives Hedging

Author: Bruno Bouchard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 3319389904

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This book covers the theory of derivatives pricing and hedging as well as techniques used in mathematical finance. The authors use a top-down approach, starting with fundamentals before moving to applications, and present theoretical developments alongside various exercises, providing many examples of practical interest.A large spectrum of concepts and mathematical tools that are usually found in separate monographs are presented here. In addition to the no-arbitrage theory in full generality, this book also explores models and practical hedging and pricing issues. Fundamentals and Advanced Techniques in Derivatives Hedging further introduces advanced methods in probability and analysis, including Malliavin calculus and the theory of viscosity solutions, as well as the recent theory of stochastic targets and its use in risk management, making it the first textbook covering this topic. Graduate students in applied mathematics with an understanding of probability theory and stochastic calculus will find this book useful to gain a deeper understanding of fundamental concepts and methods in mathematical finance.


Stochastic Flows and Stochastic Differential Equations

Stochastic Flows and Stochastic Differential Equations

Author: Hiroshi Kunita

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521599252

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The main purpose of this book is to give a systematic treatment of the theory of stochastic differential equations and stochastic flow of diffeomorphisms, and through the former to study the properties of stochastic flows.The classical theory was initiated by K. Itô and since then has been much developed. Professor Kunita's approach here is to regard the stochastic differential equation as a dynamical system driven by a random vector field, including thereby Itô's theory as a special case. The book can be used with advanced courses on probability theory or for self-study.


Numerical Methods in Finance

Numerical Methods in Finance

Author: L. C. G. Rogers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-06-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780521573542

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Numerical Methods in Finance describes a wide variety of numerical methods used in financial analysis.


Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance

Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance

Author: Dieter Sondermann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-12-02

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 3540348379

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Although there are many textbooks on stochastic calculus applied to finance, this volume earns its place with a pedagogical approach. The text presents a quick (but by no means "dirty") road to the tools required for advanced finance in continuous time, including option pricing by martingale methods, term structure models in a HJM-framework and the Libor market model. The reader should be familiar with elementary real analysis and basic probability theory.


Backward Stochastic Differential Equations

Backward Stochastic Differential Equations

Author: N El Karoui

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-01-17

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780582307339

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This book presents the texts of seminars presented during the years 1995 and 1996 at the Université Paris VI and is the first attempt to present a survey on this subject. Starting from the classical conditions for existence and unicity of a solution in the most simple case-which requires more than basic stochartic calculus-several refinements on the hypotheses are introduced to obtain more general results.


Continuous-Time Finance

Continuous-Time Finance

Author: Robert C. Merton

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1992-11-03

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 9780631185086

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Robert C. Merton's widely-used text provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis. It covers individual finance choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance.