The focus of this volume is on the development of new approaches for the market-conform valuation of newly issued derivatives. The first chapter presents a flexible approach to construct the binomial process of the underlying asset price by using a simultaneously backward and forward induction...

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect...

The integration of product recovery into regular production processes enables new opportunities for cost savings. It also yields new challenges for inventory management because there are two sources to satisfy product requirements which need to be coordinated by additionally taking into account...

Useful for mathematicians interested in the methods of modern mathematical finance without prior knowledge of advanced stochastic analysis, this book contains lecture notes which start with an elementary approach to stochastic calculus due to Follmer, who showed that one can develop Ito's...

Optimization Theory and Algorithms -- On the Asymptotic Behavior of a System of Steepest Descent Equations Coupled by a Vanishing Mutual Repulsion -- Inverse Linear Programming -- Second-Order Conditions in C1,1 Vector Optimization with Inequality and Equality Constraints -- Benson Proper...