<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886</id><updated>2011-11-25T07:38:18.848+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Stochastic Calculus for Finance</title><subtitle type='html'>Quantitative Finance, Financial Mathematics, Options, Derivatives, American options, Stochastic Calculus, Financial Engineering, Arbitrage, Martingales, Stochastic Processes, Heat Equation, Ito formula, Risk Neutral Valuation, Martingale Measure, Malliavin Calculus, Lévy Processes, Fourier Methods</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886.post-3061030883030878714</id><published>2011-11-25T16:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T12:53:22.021+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Explicit Solutions</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638869984961167666" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GpQcaFmTIaM/TkFKYBQ5ATI/AAAAAAAAEOs/UIxTufI4DhY/s200/explicit_solutions_asian.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Freely downloadable &lt;a href="http://explicitsolutions.wordpress.com/"&gt;Mathematica notebooks&lt;/a&gt; of analytical approximation formulae for European and Asian options under Local Volatility models.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6674129258991265886-3061030883030878714?l=math-finance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/3061030883030878714/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6674129258991265886&amp;postID=3061030883030878714' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/3061030883030878714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/3061030883030878714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/2011/08/explicit-solutions.html' title='Explicit Solutions'/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GpQcaFmTIaM/TkFKYBQ5ATI/AAAAAAAAEOs/UIxTufI4DhY/s72-c/explicit_solutions_asian.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886.post-7296569010147549894</id><published>2011-11-24T12:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T18:32:59.447+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Financial Mathematics</title><content type='html'>&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678522646999556194" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YII5bP32WnU/Ts4qQudrYGI/AAAAAAAAEYQ/I64P5TAH8Pc/s320/978-88-470-2537-0.tif" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;" width="210" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 45px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Financial Mathematics&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Theory and Problems for Multi-period Models&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"&gt;With the Bologna Accords a bachelor-master-doctor curriculum has been introduced in various countries with the intention that students may enter the job market already at the bachelor level. Since finan&lt;span id="goog_1320795861"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1320795862"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;cial Institutions provide non negligible job opportunities also for mathematicians, and scientists in general, it appeared to be appropriate to have a financial mathematics course already at the bachelor level in mathematics. Most mathematical techniques in use in financial mathematics are related to continuous time models and require thus notions from stochastic analysis that bachelor students do in general not possess. Basic notions and methodologies in use in financial mathematics can however be transmitted to students also without the technicalities from stochastic analysis by using discrete time (multi-period) models for which general notions from Probability suffice and these are generally familiar to students not only from science courses, but also from economics with quantitative curricula.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"&gt;There do not exists many textbooks for multi-period models and the present volume is intended to fill in this gap. It deals with the basic topics in financial mathematics and, for each topic, there is a theoretical section and a problem section. The latter includes a great variety of possible problems with complete solution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;Approx. 41.55 €&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.springer.com/mathematics/book/978-88-470-2537-0" style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136045643685011458" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/R0bmTQ4JoAI/AAAAAAAAAns/535z2t_h_GY/s200/cda_displaydesignimage.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6674129258991265886-7296569010147549894?l=math-finance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/7296569010147549894/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6674129258991265886&amp;postID=7296569010147549894' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/7296569010147549894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/7296569010147549894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/2011/11/financial-mathematics.html' title='Financial Mathematics'/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YII5bP32WnU/Ts4qQudrYGI/AAAAAAAAEYQ/I64P5TAH8Pc/s72-c/978-88-470-2537-0.tif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886.post-1344535211823244831</id><published>2009-04-23T08:36:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T18:31:41.072+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Finanza Matematica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.springer.com/math/book/978-88-470-1441-1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327772333865279954" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/SfAMtbwxodI/AAAAAAAADL4/-YCxmK1NNuU/s320/Finmat.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt;" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Finanza Matematica&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Teoria e problemi per modelli multiperiodali&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/SglTgDLm3EI/AAAAAAAADe4/LjAlZvZxU1c/s1600-h/cda_displaydesignimage.gif"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334887043671972930" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/SglTgDLm3EI/AAAAAAAADe4/LjAlZvZxU1c/s400/cda_displaydesignimage.gif" style="cursor: pointer; height: 15px; width: 21px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Ricerca/PDF/indicepr.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Indice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Approx. 27,84 €&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.springer.com/math/book/978-88-470-1441-1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5136045643685011458" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/R0bmTQ4JoAI/AAAAAAAAAns/535z2t_h_GY/s200/cda_displaydesignimage.gif" style="cursor: pointer;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;La Finanza Matematica ha visto un notevole sviluppo in tempi recenti,  soprattutto per l’introduzione di strumenti finanziari atti a contenere  il rischio nelle operazioni di mercato. Lo studio delle problematiche  relative a tali strumenti richiede tecniche matematiche talvolta  sofisticate di cui la maggior parte è legata alla teoria della Probabilità.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Il presente libro è inteso come testo per corsi di finanza matematica a  livello di laurea triennale e nasce dall’esperienza d’insegnamento degli  autori per tali corsi, con lo scopo di colmare una lacuna presente  nell’attuale panorama nazionale e internazionale. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Benché concepito maggiormente per un corso di laurea in Matematica, esso  si adatta anche a corsi di tipo quantitativo per le facoltà di Economia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;La struttura del testo, originata dall’idea di insegnare per esempi e  contro-esempi, si è poi sviluppata in un testo completo che contiene  anche la teoria. A differenza però di altre trattazioni teoriche, questo  libro contiene numerosi esempi ed esercizi risolti. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Il testo è suddiviso in quattro parti in cui vengono trattati i seguenti  argomenti: valutazione e copertura di derivati Europei, ottimizzazione  di portafoglio (programmazione dinamica e metodi martingala),  valutazione e copertura di derivati Americani, modelli multi-periodali  per i tassi d’interesse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6674129258991265886-1344535211823244831?l=math-finance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/1344535211823244831/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6674129258991265886&amp;postID=1344535211823244831' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/1344535211823244831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/1344535211823244831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/2009/04/finanza-matematica.html' title='Finanza Matematica'/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/SfAMtbwxodI/AAAAAAAADL4/-YCxmK1NNuU/s72-c/Finmat.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886.post-4006986228207546964</id><published>2008-09-23T04:27:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T18:31:47.680+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/S_0Tvs57BFI/AAAAAAAAD34/z14RHHrG7mk/s1600/viewer.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="320" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475554432181273682" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/S_0Tvs57BFI/AAAAAAAAD34/z14RHHrG7mk/s320/viewer.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;" width="245" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"&gt;PDE and Martingale Methods in Option Pricing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Ricerca/PDF/contents1.pdf"&gt;Table of contents&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Ricerca/PDF/ErrataPDE.pdf"&gt;Errata corrige&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Unified and detailed treatment of PDE and martingale methods in option pricing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Full treatment of arbitrage theory in discrete and continuous time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Self-contained introduction to advanced methods (Malliavin calculus, Lévy processes, Fourier methods, etc)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #000099; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This book offers an introduction to the mathematical, probabilistic and numerical methods used in the modern theory of option pricing. The text is designed for readers with a basic mathematical background.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The first part contains a presentation of the arbitrage theory in discrete time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In the second part, the theories of stochastic calculus and parabolic PDEs are developed in detail. At first, the classical arbitrage theory is analyzed in a Markovian setting by means of PDEs techniques. After the martingale representation theorems and the Girsanov theory have been presented, arbitrage pricing is revisited in the martingale theory optics. General tools form PDE and martingale theories are also used for an in-depth analysis of volatility modeling.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The book also contains an introduction to Lévy processes and Malliavin calculus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The last part is devoted to the description of the numerical methods used in option pricing: Monte Carlo, binomial trees, finite differences and Fourier transform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #000099;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6674129258991265886-4006986228207546964?l=math-finance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/4006986228207546964/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6674129258991265886&amp;postID=4006986228207546964' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/4006986228207546964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/4006986228207546964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/2008/09/news-english-edition-forthcoming.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9JUImRKA2OM/S_0Tvs57BFI/AAAAAAAAD34/z14RHHrG7mk/s72-c/viewer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6674129258991265886.post-2650970248994598460</id><published>2007-12-31T13:01:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T18:31:53.388+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Il libro fornisce un’esposizione accessibile ad un lettore che abbia una formazione matematica di base. Con lo scopo di ridurre il formalismo, il testo introduce rapidamente i concetti fondamentali senza rinunciare al rigore matematico.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;La prima parte del volume contiene un’introduzione agli elementi di probabilità e una presentazione della teoria della valutazione nell’ambito dei mercati discreti. Vengono in particolare illustrati con dimostrazione i teoremi fondamentali della valutazione, i modelli binomiale e trinomiale e vengono accennati alcuni approcci al problema della valutazione in mercati incompleti.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Nella seconda parte viene sviluppata in dettaglio la teoria dell’integrazione e del calcolo stocastico. Il classico modello di Black&amp;amp;Scholes è presentato inizialmente in ambito Markoviano con un approccio basato sulle equazioni alle derivate parziali. Successivamente, dopo aver trattato il teorema di Girsanov, la valutazione d’arbitraggio viene rivisitata nell’ottica della teoria delle martingale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Di seguito viene approfondita la teoria delle equazioni differenziali stocastiche mettendo particolare enfasi sui legami con le equazioni alle derivate parziali paraboliche, eventualmente degeneri. Gli strumenti introdotti vengono utilizzati nella discussione di alcuni recenti modelli per la volatilità che generalizzano l’analisi classica di Black&amp;amp;Scholes. Una parte del testo è dedicata alla descrizione dei classici metodi numerici utilizzati nella valutazione dei derivati: metodo Monte Carlo, alberi binomiali e schemi alle differenze finite. L'ultimo capitolo contiene un'introduzione al Calcolo di Malliavin corredato da numerosi esempi di applicazioni al calcolo delle greche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6674129258991265886-2650970248994598460?l=math-finance.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/feeds/2650970248994598460/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6674129258991265886&amp;postID=2650970248994598460' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/2650970248994598460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6674129258991265886/posts/default/2650970248994598460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://math-finance.blogspot.com/2011/11/calcolo-stocastico-per-la-finanza.html' title=''/><author><name>Andrea Pascucci</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06892974536221699568</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.dm.unibo.it/~pascucci/web/Immagini/fotomia.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqq0xLQdORU/Ts4ypb_aOMI/AAAAAAAAEYY/0mn2ZJ5JkUw/s72-c/Copertina.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
