Useful for mathematicians interested in the methods of modern mathematical finance without prior knowledge of advanced stochastic analysis, this book contains lecture notes which start with an elementary approach to stochastic calculus due to Follmer, who showed that one can develop Ito's...

In many areas of finance and stochastics, significant advances have been made since this field of research was opened by Black, Scholes and Merton in 1973. Advances in Finance and Stochastics contains a collection of original articles by a number of highly distinguished authors on research...