Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Programming techniques for financial calculus -- Chapter 1: An introduction to MATLAB®with applications -- 1.1: MATLAB®basics -- 1.1.1: Preliminary elements -- 1.1.2: Vectors and...

A comprehensive introduction to various numerical methods used in computational finance today Quantitative skills are a prerequisite for anyone working in finance or beginning a career in the field, as well as risk managers. A thorough grounding in numerical methods is necessary, as is the...

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 --...

I Pricing and ValuationStochastic Processes and Risk-Neutral Pricing Characteristic FunctionStochastic Models of Asset PricesValuing Derivatives under Various MeasuresTypes of DerivativesDerivatives Pricing via Transform TechniquesDerivatives Pricing via the Fast Fourier TransformFractional Fast...