Purpose: We investigate causes for the cost overrun and delay of the railway project Stuttgart 21. Besides, we try to forecast the actual costs and completion date at an early stage. Design/methodology/approach: The results of exploratory research show the causes for the cost overrun and delay...

The academic interest in utility indifference based approaches to derivative pricing in incomplete markets has grown during the last decades. In lack of arbitrage arguments the fair price of an option can be found through the value function of two optional investment choices, one where an option...

We propose a quasi-Monte Carlo (qMC) algorithm to simulate variates from the normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) distribution. The algorithm is based on a Monte Carlo technique found in Rydberg [13], and is based on sampling three independent uniform variables. We apply the algorithm to three problems...

Following the increasing awareness of the risk from volatility fluctuations, the market for hedging contracts written on realized volatility has surged. Companies looking for means to secure against unexpected accumulation of market activity can find over-the-counter products written on...