Classroom experiments as a teaching tool increase understanding and especially motivation. Traditionally, experiments have been run using pen-and-paper or in a computer lab. Pen-and-paper is time and resource consuming. Experiments in the lab require appropriate installations and impede the...

We describe the maximum likelihood method as a mechanism for estimating parameters in stochastic differential equations used to describe the behavior of financial variables. Are considered special cases of the Black-Scholes model and Vasicek, for which estimates are derived parameters that...

In insurance mathematics, optimal control problems over an infinite time horizon arise when computing risk measures. An example of such a risk measure is the expected discounted future dividend payments. In models which take multiple economic factors into account, this problem is...