Applied Stochastic Models and Control for Finance and Insurance presents at an introductory level some essential stochastic models applied in economics, finance and insurance. Markov chains, random walks, stochastic differential equations and other stochastic processes are used throughout the...

With the aim of modelling key stylized features of observational series from finance and turbulence a number of stochastic processes with normal inverse Gaussian marginals and various types of dependence structures are discussed. Ornstein - Uhlenbeck type processes, superpositions of such...

This paper analyzes the relationship between money and labor supply, and derives money's optimal rate of return when production functions experience stochastic shocks. Increases in money's return increase both the deterministic component and variance of labor supply. Moreover, money's optimal...

This paper presents closed-form solutions for the investment and valuation of a competitive firm with a Cobb-Douglas production function and a constant elasticity adjustment cost function in the presence of stochastic prices for output and inputs. The value of the firm is a linear function of...

This paper considers the problem of calculating optimal policy rules to stabilize fluctuations in investment in an economy where firms' investment behavior can be described by a dynamic optimization model. In the optimization model, the dynamics of investment are generated by heterogeneous...

High-dimensional pricing problems frequently arise with financial options (examples include basket options, outperformance options, interest-rate and foreign currency options) and real options. American versions of these options, i.e., where the owner has the right to exercise early, are...