This book presents a factor-based model of the stochastic evolution of the implied volatility surface. The model allows … volatility derivatives. In the first part, the book develops a unifying theory for the analysis of contingent claims under both … the real-world measure and the risk-neutral measure in an environment of stochastic implied volatility. On the basis of …

-frequency volatility estimators, market risk evaluation, covariance estimation and multivariate extensions of the processes. The book … and continues to be engaged in research on many topics in finance. His primary areas of interest are volatility, ARCH …

stochastic volatility, jumps in the underlying and the price process and a stochastic target level as well as with deterministic …