Functionals of Multidimensional Diffusions with Applications to Finance

Professor Eckhard Platen is a joint appointment between the School of Finance and Economics and the Department of Mathematical Sciences to the 1997 created Chair in Quantitative Finance at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to this appointment he was Founding Head of the Centre for Financial Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. He completed a PhD in Mathematics at the Technical University in Dresden in 1975 and obtained in 1985 his Dr. sc. from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, where he headed at the Weierstrass Institute the Sector of Stochastics. He is co-author of two successful books on Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations, published by Springer Verlag, and has authored more than 100 research papers in quantitative finance and mathematics.

1 A Benchmark Approach to Risk Management.- 2 Functionals of Wiener Processes.- 3 Functionals of Squared Bessel Processes.- 4 Lie Symmetry Group Methods.- 5 Transition Densities via Lie Symmetry Methods.- 6 Exact and Almost Exact Simulation.- 7 Affine Diffusion Processes on the Euclidean Space.- 8 Pricing Using Affine Diffusions.- 9 Solvable Affine Processes on the Euclidean State Space.- 10 An Introduction to Matrix Variate Stochastics.- 11 Wishart Processes.- 12 Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods.- 13 Computational Tools.- 14 Credit Risk under the Benchmark Approach.- A Continuous Stochastic Processes.- B Time-Homogeneous Scalar Diffusions.- C Detecting Strict Local Martingales.

"The textbook at hand focuses on 'tractable multidimensional models with functionals that have explicit solutions'. ... The book also covers in detail numerical techniques such exact and almost exact simulation, transform methods, and quasi-Monte Carlo schemes. Moreover, it contains a self-contained summary of the tools from stochastic calculus that are used in the main body of the text." (Johannes Muhle-Karbe, zbMATH 1401.60001, 2019)

From the book reviews:

"This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on applications of stochastic processes to financial mathematics, and can serve as a useful introduction to the various techniques needed in order to derive closed form expressions for a variety of functionals of multidimensional diffusions arising in financial models but also as a useful reference book, in which researchers and practitioners may retrieve various useful results." (Athanasios Yannacopoulos, Mathematical Reviews, March, 2015)