The assessment of models of financial market behaviour requires evaluation tools. When complexity hinders a direct estimation approach, e.g., for agent based microsimulation models or multifractal models, simulation based estimators might provide an alternative. In order to apply such...

Agent based models take into account limited rational behaviour of individuals acting on financial markets. Explicit simulation of this behaviour and the resulting interaction of individuals provide a description of aggregate financial market time series. At least for some parameter settings,...

The paper first compares the use of optimization heuristics to the classical optimization techniques for the selection of optimal portfolios. Second, the heuristic approach is applied to problems other than those in the standard mean-variance framework where the classical optimization fails.

Many numerical methods to price options have been suggested in the finance literature. This paper aims at reviewing several numerical approaches in order to discuss their practical strenghts and/or weaknesses. The problem under investigation is a multivariate contingent claims model with three...

In this paper we investigate the performance of the threshold accepting heuristic for the index tracking problem. The index tracking problem consists in minimizing the tracking error between a portfolio and a benchmark. The objective is to replicate the performance of a given index upon the...

In this paper we present an implementation of a Newton method based on iterative Krylov subspace methods such as GMRES, QMR and BiCGSTAB for solving large nonlinear macroeconometric models. These methods are tested for the solution of the model MULTIMOD and the computational costs of the...