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Author : Gerhard Hambusch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Essays on Financial Dynamic Optimization Under Uncertainty written by Gerhard Hambusch and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giorgio Consigli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319416138
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Optimal Financial Decision Making under Uncertainty written by Giorgio Consigli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this volume is primarily to analyze from different methodological perspectives similar valuation and optimization problems arising in financial applications, aimed at facilitating a theoretical and computational integration between methods largely regarded as alternatives. Increasingly in recent years, financial management problems such as strategic asset allocation, asset-liability management, as well as asset pricing problems, have been presented in the literature adopting formulation and solution approaches rooted in stochastic programming, robust optimization, stochastic dynamic programming (including approximate SDP) methods, as well as policy rule optimization, heuristic approaches and others. The aim of the volume is to facilitate the comprehension of the modeling and methodological potentials of those methods, thus their common assumptions and peculiarities, relying on similar financial problems. The volume will address different valuation problems common in finance related to: asset pricing, optimal portfolio management, risk measurement, risk control and asset-liability management. The volume features chapters of theoretical and practical relevance clarifying recent advances in the associated applied field from different standpoints, relying on similar valuation problems and, as mentioned, facilitating a mutual and beneficial methodological and theoretical knowledge transfer. The distinctive aspects of the volume can be summarized as follows: Strong benchmarking philosophy, with contributors explicitly asked to underline current limits and desirable developments in their areas. Theoretical contributions, aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in the given domain with a clear potential for applications The inclusion of an algorithmic-computational discussion of issues arising on similar valuation problems across different methods. Variety of applications: rarely is it possible within a single volume to consider and analyze different, and possibly competing, alternative optimization techniques applied to well-identified financial valuation problems. Clear definition of the current state-of-the-art in each methodological and applied area to facilitate future research directions.
Author : Marco Avellaneda
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814495212
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Quantitative Analysis in Financial Markets written by Marco Avellaneda and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-10-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book contains lectures delivered at the celebrated Seminar in Mathematical Finance at the Courant Institute. The lecturers and presenters of papers are prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of quantitative financial modeling. Most are faculty members at leading universities or Wall Street practitioners. The lectures deal with the emerging science of pricing and hedging derivative securities and, more generally, managing financial risk. Specific articles concern topics such as option theory, dynamic hedging, interest-rate modeling, portfolio theory, price forecasting using statistical methods, etc. Contents:Deriving Closed-Form Solutions for Gaussian Pricing Models: A Systematic Time-Domain Approach (A Levin)Static Hedging of Exotic Options (P Carr et al.)Closed Form Formulas for Exotic Options and Their Lifetime Distribution (R Douady)Asian Options, the Sum of Lognormals, and the Reciprocal Gamma Distribution (S E Posner & M A Milevsky)Pricing and Hedging American Options: A Recursive Integration Method (M G Subrahmanyam et al.)Piecewise Convex Function Estimation: Pilot Estimators (K S Riedel)E-ARCH Model for Implied Volatility Term-Structure of FX Options (Y-Z Zhu & M Avellaneda)Calibrating Volatility Surfaces via Relative-Entropy Minimization (M Avellaneda et al.)Portfolio-Based Risk Pricing: Pricing Long-Term Put Options with GJR-GARCH(1,1)/Jump Diffusion Process (D-J Guo & S Esipov)Portfolio Generating Functions (R Fernholz)and other papers Readership: Students and researchers in economics, finance and applied mathematics. Keywords:
Author : ANDERSON ANDERSON WEBSTER
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483294994
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Financial Decision Making Under Uncertainty written by ANDERSON ANDERSON WEBSTER and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial Dec Making under Uncertainty
Author : W. T. Ziemba
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483273997
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance written by W. T. Ziemba and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stochastic Optimization Models in Finance focuses on the applications of stochastic optimization models in finance, with emphasis on results and methods that can and have been utilized in the analysis of real financial problems. The discussions are organized around five themes: mathematical tools; qualitative economic results; static portfolio selection models; dynamic models that are reducible to static models; and dynamic models. This volume consists of five parts and begins with an overview of expected utility theory, followed by an analysis of convexity and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions. The reader is then introduced to dynamic programming; stochastic dominance; and measures of risk aversion. Subsequent chapters deal with separation theorems; existence and diversification of optimal portfolio policies; effects of taxes on risk taking; and two-period consumption models and portfolio revision. The book also describes models of optimal capital accumulation and portfolio selection. This monograph will be of value to mathematicians and economists as well as to those interested in economic theory and mathematical economics.
Author : Jonas Ekblom
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9176852024
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Decision Making under Uncertainty in Financial Markets written by Jonas Ekblom and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis addresses the topic of decision making under uncertainty, with particular focus on financial markets. The aim of this research is to support improved decisions in practice, and related to this, to advance our understanding of financial markets. Stochastic optimization provides the tools to determine optimal decisions in uncertain environments, and the optimality conditions of these models produce insights into how financial markets work. To be more concrete, a great deal of financial theory is based on optimality conditions derived from stochastic optimization models. Therefore, an important part of the development of financial theory is to study stochastic optimization models that step-by-step better capture the essence of reality. This is the motivation behind the focus of this thesis, which is to study methods that in relation to prevailing models that underlie financial theory allow additional real-world complexities to be properly modeled. The overall purpose of this thesis is to develop and evaluate stochastic optimization models that support improved decisions under uncertainty on financial markets. The research into stochastic optimization in financial literature has traditionally focused on problem formulations that allow closed-form or `exact' numerical solutions; typically through the application of dynamic programming or optimal control. The focus in this thesis is on two other optimization methods, namely stochastic programming and approximate dynamic programming, which open up opportunities to study new classes of financial problems. More specifically, these optimization methods allow additional and important aspects of many real-world problems to be captured. This thesis contributes with several insights that are relevant for both financial and stochastic optimization literature. First, we show that the modeling of several real-world aspects traditionally not considered in the literature are important components in a model which supports corporate hedging decisions. Specifically, we document the importance of modeling term premia, a rich asset universe and transaction costs. Secondly, we provide two methodological contributions to the stochastic programming literature by: (i) highlighting the challenges of realizing improved decisions through more stages in stochastic programming models; and (ii) developing an importance sampling method that can be used to produce high solution quality with few scenarios. Finally, we design an approximate dynamic programming model that gives close to optimal solutions to the classic, and thus far unsolved, portfolio choice problem with constant relative risk aversion preferences and transaction costs, given many risky assets and a large number of time periods.
Author : M. A. H. Dempster
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000784045
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Commodities written by M. A. H. Dempster and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since a major source of income for many countries comes from exporting commodities, price discovery and information transmission between commodity futures markets are key issues for continued economic development. Commodities: Fundamental Theory of Futures, Forwards, and Derivatives Pricing, Second Edition covers the fundamental theory of and derivatives pricing for major commodity markets, as well as the interaction between commodity prices, the real economy, and other financial markets. After a thoroughly updated and extensive theoretical and practical introduction, this new edition of the book is divided into five parts – the fifth of which is entirely new material covering cutting-edge developments. Oil Products considers the structural changes in the demand and supply for hedging services that are increasingly determining the price of oil Other Commodities examines markets related to agricultural commodities, including natural gas, wine, soybeans, corn, gold, silver, copper, and other metals Commodity Prices and Financial Markets investigates the contemporary aspects of the financialization of commodities, including stocks, bonds, futures, currency markets, index products, and exchange traded funds Electricity Markets supplies an overview of the current and future modelling of electricity markets Contemporary Topics discuss rough volatility, order book trading, cryptocurrencies, text mining for price dynamics and flash crashes
Author : Tusheng Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814489158
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Analysis and Applications to Finance written by Tusheng Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of solicited and refereed articles from distinguished researchers across the field of stochastic analysis and its application to finance. The articles represent new directions and newest developments in this exciting and fast growing area. The covered topics range from Markov processes, backward stochastic differential equations, stochastic partial differential equations, stochastic control, potential theory, functional inequalities, optimal stopping, portfolio selection, to risk measure and risk theory. It will be a very useful book for young researchers who want to learn about the research directions in the area, as well as experienced researchers who want to know about the latest developments in the area of stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. Contents:Non-Linear Evolution Equations Driven by Rough Paths (Thomas Cass, Zhongmin Qian and Jan Tudor)Optimal Stopping Times with Different Information Levels and with Time Uncertainty (Arijit Chakrabarty and Xin Guo)Finite Horizon Optimal Investment and Consumption with CARA Utility and Proportional Transaction Costs (Yingshan Chen, Min Dai and Kun Zhao)MUniform Integrability of Exponential Martingales and Spectral Bounds of Non-Local Feynman-Kac Semigroups (Zhen-Qing Chen)Continuous-Time Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection with Finite Transactions (Xiangyu Cui, Jianjun Gao and Duan Li)Quantifying Model Uncertainties in the Space of Probability Measures (J Duan, T Gao and G He)A PDE Approach to Multivariate Risk Theory (Robert J Elliott, Tak Kuen Siu and Hailiang Yang)Stochastic Analysis on Loop Groups (Shizan Fang)Existence and Stability of Measure Solutions for BSDE with Generators of Quadratic Growth (Alexander Fromm, Peter Imkeller and Jianing Zhang)Convex Capital Requirements for Large Portfolios (Hans Föllmer and Thomas Knispel)The Mixed Equilibrium of Insider Trading in the Market with Rational Expected Price (Fuzhou Gong and Hong Liu)Some Results on Backward Stochastic Differential Equations Driven by Fractional Brownian Motions (Yaozhong Hu, Daniel Ocone and Jian Song)Potential Theory of Subordinate Brownian Motions Revisited (Panki Kim, Renming Song and Zoran Vondraček)Research on Social Causes of the Financial Crisis (Steven Kou)Wick Formulas and Inequalities for the Quaternion Gaussian and β-Permanental Variables (Wenbo V Li and Ang Wei)Further Study on Web Markov Skeleton Processes (Yuting Liu, Zhi-Ming Ma and Chuan Zhou)MLE of Parameters in the Drifted Brownian Motion and Its Error (Lemee Nakamura and Weian Zheng)Optimal Partial Information Control of SPDEs with Delay and Time-Advanced Backward SPDEs (Bernt Øksendal, Agnès Sulem and Tusheng Zhang)Simulation of Diversified Portfolios in Continuous Financial Markets (Eckhard Platen and Renata Rendek)Coupling and Applications (Feng-Yu Wang)SDEs and a Generalised Burgers Equation (Jiang-Lun Wu and Wei Yang)Mean-Variance Hedging in the Discontinuous Case (Jianming Xia) Readership: Graduates and researchers in stochatic analysis and mathematical finance. Keywords:Stochastic Analysis;Finance;Stochastic Partial Differential Equations;Backward Stochastic Differential Equations;Potential TheoryKey Features:Unique combination of stochastic analysis and financeSolicited articles from leading researchers in the areaA volume in honour of Jia-an Yan, a prominent scholar in both stochastic analysis and mathematical finance
Author : Klaus Wälde
Publisher : Klaus Wälde
ISBN 13 : 3000324283
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Applied Intertemporal Optimization written by Klaus Wälde and published by Klaus Wälde. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles S. Tapiero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461558239
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Applied Stochastic Models and Control for Finance and Insurance written by Charles S. Tapiero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Stochastic Models and Control for Finance and Insurance presents at an introductory level some essential stochastic models applied in economics, finance and insurance. Markov chains, random walks, stochastic differential equations and other stochastic processes are used throughout the book and systematically applied to economic and financial applications. In addition, a dynamic programming framework is used to deal with some basic optimization problems. The book begins by introducing problems of economics, finance and insurance which involve time, uncertainty and risk. A number of cases are treated in detail, spanning risk management, volatility, memory, the time structure of preferences, interest rates and yields, etc. The second and third chapters provide an introduction to stochastic models and their application. Stochastic differential equations and stochastic calculus are presented in an intuitive manner, and numerous applications and exercises are used to facilitate their understanding and their use in Chapter 3. A number of other processes which are increasingly used in finance and insurance are introduced in Chapter 4. In the fifth chapter, ARCH and GARCH models are presented and their application to modeling volatility is emphasized. An outline of decision-making procedures is presented in Chapter 6. Furthermore, we also introduce the essentials of stochastic dynamic programming and control, and provide first steps for the student who seeks to apply these techniques. Finally, in Chapter 7, numerical techniques and approximations to stochastic processes are examined. This book can be used in business, economics, financial engineering and decision sciences schools for second year Master's students, as well as in a number of courses widely given in departments of statistics, systems and decision sciences.
Author : Michael Balch
Publisher : North-Holland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Economic Behavior Under Uncertainty written by Michael Balch and published by North-Holland. This book was released on 1974 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Elishakoff
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1848164785
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Optimization and Anti-optimization of Structures Under Uncertainty written by Isaac Elishakoff and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents a collaboration between internationally recognized experts on anti-optimization and structural optimization, and summarizes various novel ideas, methodologies and results studied over 20 years. The book vividly demonstrates how the concept of uncertainty should be incorporated in a rigorous manner during the process of designing real-world structures. The necessity of anti-optimization approach is first demonstrated, then the anti-optimization techniques are applied to static, dynamic and buckling problems, thus covering the broadest possible set of applications. Finally, anti-optimization is fully utilized by a combination of structural optimization to produce the optimal design considering the worst-case scenario. This is currently the only book that covers the combination of optimization and anti-optimization. It shows how various optimization techniques are used in the novel anti-optimization technique, and how the structural optimization can be exponentially enhanced by incorporating the concept of worst-case scenario, thereby increasing the safety of the structures designed in various fields of engineering.
Author : Horand Gassmann
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814407518
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Stochastic Programming written by Horand Gassmann and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the breadth and depth of stochastic programming applications. All the papers presented here involve optimization over the scenarios that represent possible future outcomes of the uncertainty problems. The applications, which were presented at the 12th International Conference on Stochastic Programming held in Halifax, Nova Scotia in August 2010, span the rich field of uses of these models. The finance papers discuss such diverse problems as longevity risk management of individual investors, personal financial planning, intertemporal surplus management, asset management with benchmarks, dynamic portfolio management, fixed income immunization and racetrack betting. The production and logistics papers discuss natural gas infrastructure design, farming Atlantic salmon, prevention of nuclear smuggling and sawmill planning. The energy papers involve electricity production planning, hydroelectric reservoir operations and power generation planning for liquid natural gas plants. Finally, two telecommunication papers discuss mobile network design and frequency assignment problems.
Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451956940
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (519 download)
Download or read book IMF Staff papers, Volume 39 No. 1 written by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on exchange rate economics. Two main views of exchange rate determination have evolved since the early 1970s: the monetary approach to the exchange rate (in flexible-price, sticky-price, and real interest differential formulations); and the portfolio balance approach. In this paper, the literature on these views is surveyed, followed by a discussion of the empirical evidence and likely future developments in the area of exchange rate determination. The literature on foreign exchange market efficiency, exchange rates and “news,” and international parity conditions is also reviewed.
Author : J.K. Sengupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642701639
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Optimal Decisions Under Uncertainty written by J.K. Sengupta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the stochastic enviornment is as much important to the manager as to the economist. From production and marketing to financial management, a manager has to assess various costs imposed by uncertainty. The economist analyzes the role of incomplete and too often imperfect information structures on the optimal decisions made by a firm. The need for understanding the role of uncertainty in quantitative decision models, both in economics and management science provide the basic motivation of this monograph. The stochastic environment is analyzed here in terms of the following specific models of optimization: linear and quadratic models, linear programming, control theory and dynamic programming. Uncertainty is introduced here through the para meters, the constraints, and the objective function and its impact evaluated. Specifically recent developments in applied research are emphasized, so that they can help the decision-maker arrive at a solution which has some desirable charac teristics like robustness, stability and cautiousness. Mathematical treatment is kept at a fairly elementary level and applied as pects are emphasized much more than theory. Moreover, an attempt is made to in corporate the economic theory of uncertainty into the stochastic theory of opera tions research. Methods of optimal decision rules illustrated he re are applicable in three broad areas: (a) applied economic models in resource allocation and economic planning, (b) operations research models involving portfolio analysis and stochastic linear programming and (c) systems science models in stochastic control and adaptive behavior.
Author : William F. Massy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418991
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Reengineering the University written by William F. Massy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education expert William F. Massy’s decades as a professor, senior university officer, and consultant have left him with a passionate belief in the need for reform in America’s traditional universities. In Reengineering the University, he addresses widespread concerns that higher education’s costs are too high, learning falls short of objectives, disruptive technology and education models are mounting serious challenges to traditional institutions, and administrators and faculty are too often unwilling or unable to change. An expert microeconomist, Massy approaches the challenge of reform in a genuinely new way by applying rigorous economic principles, informed by financial data and other evidence, to explain the forces at work on universities and the flaws in the academic business model. Ultimately, he argues that computer models that draw on data from college transaction systems can help both administrators and faculty address problems of educational performance and cost analysis, manage the complexity of planning and budgeting systems, and monitor the progress of reform in nonintrusive and constructive ways. Written for institutional leaders, faculty, board members, and policymakers who bear responsibility for initiating and carrying through on reform in traditional colleges and universities, Reengineering the University shows how, working together, administrators and faculty can improve education, research, and affordability by keeping a close eye on both academic values and the bottom line. "Massy's in-depth yet highly accessible analysis is a must-read for any academic leader."—Academic Leader "William Massy is a complex, deeply knowledgeable man: half hopeless romantic about the value and high purposes of higher education and half pragmatic engineer focused on costs, efficiency, and metrics. That combination proves to be just right for this wise and insightful book."—Michael S. McPherson, The Spencer Foundation "Reengineering the University spells out the efforts that William Massy has made throughout his extraordinary career to develop models to aid academic institutions in improving their cost efficiency and academic quality. Written in clear and concise form, academic administrators and faculty concerned about the future of their institutions should read it."—Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute "This book is a game changer. It cogently deals with the problem of long-term sustainability of universities by addressing the core problems of quality in relation to cost and margin. Massy builds a strong case for his 'reengineering tools' which any university leader would find remarkably helpful in tackling critical issues of quality-conscious cost containment."—Paula Myrick Short, University of Houston "Reengineering the University is a tough love prescription for making the nation's colleges and universities more affordable by reengineering them to be more efficient. It is Bill Massy at his best."—Robert Zemsky, Founder of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania "Only Bill Massy could provide this perspective on an extraordinary moment in higher education, offering leaders a variety of adaptive tools and methods to engage this moment and strengthen the important work of creating sustainable futures for our universities."—John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University William F. Massy, a higher education consultant, is professor emeritus of education and business administration and a former vice president and vice provost at Stanford University. The author of Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education, he is the former president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group.
Author : Gerard Cornuejols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521861700
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Optimization Methods in Finance written by Gerard Cornuejols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optimization models play an increasingly important role in financial decisions. This is the first textbook devoted to explaining how recent advances in optimization models, methods and software can be applied to solve problems in computational finance more efficiently and accurately. Chapters discussing the theory and efficient solution methods for all major classes of optimization problems alternate with chapters illustrating their use in modeling problems of mathematical finance. The reader is guided through topics such as volatility estimation, portfolio optimization problems and constructing an index fund, using techniques such as nonlinear optimization models, quadratic programming formulations and integer programming models respectively. The book is based on Master's courses in financial engineering and comes with worked examples, exercises and case studies. It will be welcomed by applied mathematicians, operational researchers and others who work in mathematical and computational finance and who are seeking a text for self-learning or for use with courses.
