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Computational Methods for Quantitative Finance

Finite Element Methods for Derivative Pricing

  • Offers an accessible introduction to modern deterministic numerical methods of option pricing
  • Presents methods for all standard European plain vanilla option as well as for widely used exotic derivative contracts, such as Barrier, American and multiperiod contracts
  • Includes a large section on methods for pricing derivatives on baskets, such as Lévy Copula models ?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Finance (FINANCE)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
  2. Basic Techniques and Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Notions of Mathematical Finance

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 3-9
    3. Elements of Numerical Methods for PDEs

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 11-25
    4. Finite Element Methods for Parabolic Problems

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 27-45
    5. European Options in BS Markets

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 47-64
    6. American Options

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 65-74
    7. Exotic Options

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 75-84
    8. Interest Rate Models

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 85-90
    9. Multi-asset Options

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 91-103
    10. Stochastic Volatility Models

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 105-122
    11. Lévy Models

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 123-143
    12. Sensitivities and Greeks

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 145-155
  3. Advanced Techniques and Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
    2. Wavelet Methods

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 159-176
    3. Multidimensional Diffusion Models

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 177-196
    4. Multidimensional Lévy Models

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 197-228
    5. Stochastic Volatility Models with Jumps

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 229-245
    6. Multidimensional Feller Processes

      • Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter
      Pages 247-267
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 269-299

About this book

Many mathematical assumptions on which classical derivative pricing methods are based have come under scrutiny in recent years. The present volume offers an introduction to deterministic algorithms for the fast and accurate pricing of derivative contracts in modern finance. This unified, non-Monte-Carlo computational pricing methodology is capable of handling rather general classes of stochastic market models with jumps, including, in particular, all currently used Lévy and stochastic volatility models. It allows us e.g. to quantify model risk in computed prices on plain vanilla, as well as on various types of exotic contracts. The algorithms are developed in classical Black-Scholes markets, and then extended to market models based on multiscale stochastic volatility, to Lévy, additive and certain classes of Feller processes. 

This book is intended for graduate students and researchers, as well as for practitioners in the fields of quantitative finance and applied and computational mathematics with a solid background in mathematics, statistics or economics.​

Reviews

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“This book … covers mainly finite element methods for derivative pricing. The book is divided into two parts: ‘Basic Techniques and Models’ and ‘Advanced Techniques and Models’. This partition makes the book useful to a large number of readers, from beginners in the subject to more advanced students and researchers, specializing not only in applied mathematics but also in mathematical finance.” (Javier de Frutos, Mathematical Reviews, July, 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Management and Law, Dept. for Banking, Finance, Insurance, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Norbert Hilber

  • Seminar for Applied Mathematics, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab

  • Allianz Deutschland AG, Munich, Germany

    Christoph Winter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Computational Methods for Quantitative Finance

  • Book Subtitle: Finite Element Methods for Derivative Pricing

  • Authors: Norbert Hilber, Oleg Reichmann, Christoph Schwab, Christoph Winter

  • Series Title: Springer Finance

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35401-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35400-7Published: 27 February 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43532-4Published: 07 March 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35401-4Published: 15 February 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1616-0533

  • Series E-ISSN: 2195-0687

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 299

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Quantitative Finance, Numerical Analysis, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

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