Description
Book SynopsisBased around a conference on financial modeling held in Milan in December 1999, this book brings together the leading names in quantitative finance to discuss the modeling techniques in a variety of areas of financial engineering.
Table of ContentsPreface
The Quantitative Finance Timeline (Paul Wilmott)
Part I. New Directions in Equity Modelling
Introduction
Asymptotic analysis of stochastic volatility models (Henrik Rasmussen and Paul Wilmott)
Passport options, a review (Antony Penaud)
Equity Dividend Models (David Bakstein and Paul Wilmott)
Isoperimetry, log-concavity and elasticity of option prices (Christer Borell)
Part II. New Directions in Interest Rate Modelling
Introduction
Dynamic, deterministic and static optimal portfolio strategies in a mean-variance framework under stochastic interest rates (Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou and Roland Portrait)
Pricing bond options in a worst-case scenario (David Epstein and Paul Wilmott)
Part III. New Directions in Risk Management
Introduction
Implementing VaR by Historical Simulation (Aldo Nassigh, Andrea Piazzetta and Ferdinando Samaria)
CrashMetrics (Philip Hua and Paul Wilmott)
Herding in financial markets: a role for psychology in explaining investor behaviour? (Henriëtte Prast)
Further Reading
Author Biographies
Index
