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Handbook of Computational Finance

  • Modern financial Tools
  • Computianal efficient algorithms
  • Pricing of complex products

Part of the book series: Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics (SHCS)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Computational Finance: An Introduction

      • Jin-Chuan Duan, James E. Gentle, Wolfgang Karl Härdle
      Pages 3-11
  3. Asset Pricing Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Modeling Asset Prices

      • James E. Gentle, Wolfgang Karl Härdle
      Pages 15-33
    3. Diffusion Models of Asset Prices

      • Jérôme Detemple, Marcel Rindisbacher
      Pages 35-60
    4. Jump-Diffusion Models Driven by Lévy Processes

      • José E. Figueroa-López
      Pages 61-88
    5. Multivariate Time Series Models for Asset Prices

      • Christian M. Hafner, Hans Manner
      Pages 89-115
    6. Option Data and Modeling BSM Implied Volatility

      • Matthias R. Fengler
      Pages 117-142
    7. Volatility Investing with Variance Swaps

      • Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Elena Silyakova
      Pages 203-219
  4. Statistical Inference in Financial Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
    2. Parametric Estimation of Risk Neutral Density Functions

      • Maria Grith, Volker Krätschmer
      Pages 253-275
    3. Nonparametric Estimation of Risk-Neutral Densities

      • Maria Grith, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Melanie Schienle
      Pages 277-305
    4. Value at Risk Estimation

      • Ying Chen, Jun Lu
      Pages 307-333
    5. Volatility Estimation Based on High-Frequency Data

      • Christian Pigorsch, Uta Pigorsch, Ivaylo Popov
      Pages 335-369
    6. Identifying Jumps in Asset Prices

      • Johan Bjursell, James E. Gentle
      Pages 371-399
  5. Computational Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 437-437

About this book

Any financial asset that is openly traded has a market price. Except for extreme market conditions, market price may be more or less than a “fair” value. Fair value is likely to be some complicated function of the current intrinsic value of tangible or intangible assets underlying the claim and our assessment of the characteristics of the underlying assets with respect to the expected rate of growth, future dividends, volatility, and other relevant market factors. Some of these factors that affect the price can be measured at the time of a transaction with reasonably high accuracy. Most factors, however, relate to expectations about the future and to subjective issues, such as current management, corporate policies and market environment, that could affect the future financial performance of the underlying assets. Models are thus needed to describe the stochastic factors and environment, and their implementations inevitably require computational finance tools.

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“This handbook provides a carefully chosen survey of the concepts and methods of computational finance, ranging from basic background material through the current frontier of research … . This handbook is an authoritative and valuable account of an important field. I am sure that it will be an important reference source for researchers and practitioners.” (Lasse Koskinen, International Statistical Review, Vol. 81 (3), 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Jin-Chuan Duan

  • L.v.Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics, C.A.S.E. Centre f. Appl. Stat. & Econ., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Karl Härdle

  • , Department of Computational and Data Sci, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA

    James E. Gentle

About the editors

Jin-Chuan Duan is the Director of Risk Management Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and concurrently holds the Cycle & Carriage Professorship in Finance at the NUS Business School. Duan received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in financial engineering and risk management, and is known for his work on the GARCH option pricing model. Duan is an Academician of Academia Sinica.

Wolfgang Karl Härdle is professor of statistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and director of C.A.S.E. – the Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics. He teaches quantitative finance and semiparametric statistical methods. His research focuses on dynamic factor models, multivariate statistics in finance and computational statistics. He is an elected ISI member and advisor to the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University and to National Central University, Taiwan.

James E. Gentle is University Professor of Computational Statistics at George Mason University.  His research interests include Monte Carlo methods and computational finance.  He is an elected member of ISI and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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