A basket option is an option whose underlying is a portfolio of individual stock prices. Due to the unknown dependence structure between stocks, basket option pricing relies in general on approximations or numerical methods like Monte Carlo simulation. We propose a methodology for pricing basket...

To evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial or insurance portfolio, a risk analyst has to calculate the distribution function of a sum of random variables. As the individual risk factors are often positively dependent, the classical convolution technique will not be sufficient. On the other...

To evaluate the aggregate risk in a financial or insurance portfolio, a risk analyst has to calculate the distribution function of a sum of random variables. As the individual risk factors are often positively dependent, the classical convolution technique will not be sufficient. On the other...