Das Buch vermittelt die notigen mathematischen und statistischen Grundlagen fur eine Tatigkeit im Financial Engineering und gibt eine Einfuhrung in die wichtigsten Ideen aus den verschiedensten Bereichen der Finanzmathematik und Finanzstatistik. Die klassische Theorie der Bewertung von Derivaten, die Grundlagen der Finanzzeitreihenanalyse wie auch statistische Aspekte beim Einsatz finanzmathematischer Verfahren, d.h. die Auswahl geeigneter Modelle, werden vorgestellt und ihre Anpassung und Validierung anhand von Daten gegeben.

Die 2. Auflage wurde durch folgende Kapitel erweitert:...

Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance presents ready-to-use solutions, theoretical developments and method construction for many practical problems in quantitative finance and insurance. Written by practitioners and leading academics in the field, this book offers a unique combination of topics from which every market analyst and risk manager will benefit.

Features of the significantly enlarged and revised second edition:

• Offers insight into new methods and the applicability of the stochastic technology
• Provides the tools, instruments and...

Practice makes perfect. Therefore the best method of mastering models is working with them.

This book contains a large collection of exercises and solutions which will help explain the statistics of financial markets. These practical examples are carefully presented and provide computational solutions to specific problems, all of which are calculated using R and Matlab. This study additionally looks at the concept of corresponding Quantlets, the name given to these program codes and which follow the name scheme SFSxyz123.

The book is divided into three main parts, in which...

Copulas are mathematical objects that fully capture the dependence structure among random variables and hence offer great flexibility in building multivariate stochastic models. Since their introduction in the early 1950s, copulas have gained considerable popularity in several fields of applied mathematics, especially finance and insurance. Today, copulas represent a well-recognized tool for market and credit models, aggregation of risks, and portfolio selection. Historically, the Gaussian copula model has been one of the most common models in credit risk. However, the recent financial...