Most financial and investment decisions are based on considerations of possible future changes and require forecasts on the evolution of the financial world. Time series and processes are the natural tools for describing the dynamic behavior of financial data, leading to the required forecasts....

With the impact of the recent financial crises, more attention must be given to new models in finance rejecting “Black-Scholes-Samuelson” assumptions leading to what is called non-Gaussian finance. With the growing importance of Solvency II, Basel II and III regulatory rules for insurance...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Editor -- About the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Extremes -- 1.2 History -- 1.3 Extreme value theory -- 1.4 Statistical estimation of extremes -- 1.5 Applications in finance -- 1.6 Practitioners' points of view -- 1.7 A...