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...

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