This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...

This book analyzes real options valuation for non-constant versus constant interest rates using simulation and historical backtesting. Several real options are investigated and combined with various pricing tools and stochastic term structure models. Interest rates for real options valuation are...

Real Options in Theory and Practice -- Stochastic Models for the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Real Options Valuation Tools in Corporate Finance -- Analysis of Various Real Options in Simulations and Backtesting -- Summary and Outlook