Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the John and Natty McArthur University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Merton received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1997 for a new...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Risk Management and Portfolio Optimization -- Importance Sampling and StratiEcation for Value-at-Risk -- ConEdence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing for the -- Sharpe and Treynor Performance Measures: -- A Bootstrap Approach --...

Given a European derivative security with an arbitrary payoff function and a corresponding set of" underlying securities on which the derivative security is based, we solve the dynamic replication problem: find a" self-financing dynamic portfolio strategy involving only the underlying securities...