Statistics Of Financial
Markets presents in a vivid yet concise style the necessary statistical and mathematical
background for Financial Engineers and introduces to the main ideas in mathematical
finance and financial statistics. Topics covered are, among others, option valuation,
financial time series analysis, value-at-risk, copulas, and statistics of the extremes.
The underlying structure of
the book, i.e. basic tools in mathematical finance, financial time series analysis and
applications to given problems of financial markets, allows to use the book as a basis for
lectures, seminars and even crash courses on the topic.
A full set of transparencies
can be downloaded using the registration card at the back of the book. The registration
card allows also the use of the e-book version with links to world wide computing servers.
Table of contents
Option Pricing:
Derivaties.- Introduction to Option Management.- Basic Concepts of Probability Theory.-
Stochastic Processes in Discrete Time.- Stochastic Integrals and Differential
Equations.- Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.- Binomial Model for European
Options.- American Options.- Exotic Options and Interest Rate Derivatives. Statistical
Model of Financial Time Series: Introduction: Definitions and Concepts.- ARMA Time Series
Models.- Time Series with Stochastic Volatility.- Nonparametric Concepts for Financial
Time Series. Selected Financial Applications: Valuing Options with Flexible Volatility
Estimators.- Value-at-Risk and Backtesting.- Copulas and Value-at Risk.- Statistics of
Extreme Risks.- Neural Networks.- Volatility Risk of Portfolios.- Nonparametric Estimators
for the Probability of Defaulting.
About Authors
URGEN FRANKE is Professor
for Applied Mathematical Statistics at University of Kaiserslautern, member of the
Graduate School "Mathematics as a Key Technology", and since 2000 Advisor to the
Financial Mathematics group, Fraunhofer Institute Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik,
Kaiserslautern. His research focuses on nonlinear time series and nonparametric statistics
with applications in financial time series and risk analysis.
Wolfgang Hardle is Professor
of Statistics at Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin and director of CASE - Center 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.
Christian Hafner is
assistant professor of econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work is mainly
concerned with applications of nonlinear time series and volatility models to financial
markets.
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