Statistical Tools in 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 of quantitative finance and insurance, this...

Rezension: Standardwerk (erstmals 1967) in nunmehr 13. Auflage (zuletzt: ID 28/02). Nachdem mit der 12. Auflage (2006, hier nicht besprochen) bereits Gliederung und Inhalt grundlegend neu strukturiert und ergänzt wurden, enthält diese Ausgabe weitere Präzisierungen und etliche kleinere...

The dissertation consists of three essays. The main focus is set on semiparametric regression modeling, which embodies the strength of parametric and nonparametric regression models in terms of flexibility, dimensionality and interpretability. The first essay is “Some Recent Advances in...

This paper considers factor estimation from heterogenous data, where some of the variables are noisy and only weakly informative for the factors. To identify the irrelevant variables, we search for zero rows in the loadings matrix of the factor model. To sharply separate these irrelevant...