Quantitative Analysis In Financial Markets: Collected Papers Of The New York University Mathematical Finance Seminar (Vol Ii)

Part 1 Estimation and data-driven models: transition densities for interest rate and other nonlinear diffusions, Y. Ait-Sahalia; hidden Markov experts, A. Weigend and S.-M. Shi; when is time continuous?, A. Lo et al; asset prices are Brownian motion - only in business time, H. Geman et al; hedging under stochastic volatility, K. Ronnie Sircar. Part 2 Model calibration and volatility smile: determining volatility surfaces and option values from an implied volatility smile, P. Carr and D. Madan; reconstructing the unknown local volatility function, T. Coleman et al; building a consistent pricing model from observed option prices, J.-P. Laurent and D. Leisen; weighted Monte Carlo -a new technique for calibrating asset-pricing models, M. Avellaneda et al. Part 3 Pricing and risk management: one-and multi-factor valuation of mortgages - computational problems and shortcuts, A. Levin; simulating Bermudan interest-rate derivatives, P. Carr and G. Yang; how to use self-similarities to discover similarities of path-dependent options, A. Lipton; Monte Carlo within a day, J. Cardenas et al; decomposition and search techniques in disjunctive programmes for portfolio selection, K. Wyatt.