Preface -- Exotic options -- Passport to success / Hyer, Lipton, Pugachevsky -- Similarities via self-similarities / Lipton -- Predictability and unpredictability in financial markets / Lipton -- Universal barriers / Lipton, McGhee -- Pricing of vanilla and first generation exotic options /...

Stochastic volatility (SV) and local stochastic volatility (LSV) processes can be used to model the evolution of various financial variables such as FX rates, stock prices and so on. Considerable efforts have been devoted to pricing derivatives written on underliers governed by such processes....

This paper considers mutual obligations in the interconnected bank system and analyzes their influence on joint and marginal survival probabilities as well as CDS and FTD prices for the individual banks. To make the role of mutual obligations more transparent, a simple structural default model...