In the paper, a thin market with an indivisible commodity, at which the market price is determined (by an organizer of the market) as the average price maximizing the traded volume, is modeled. Two models are presented - the first one with a finite, the second one with a possibly infinite number...

This paper investigates the impact of dependence among successive service times on the transient and steady-state performance of a large-scale service system. This is done by studying an infinite-server queueing model with time-varying arrival rate, exploiting a recently established...

A stochastic chartist–fundamentalist model of speculative asset dynamics in financial markets is developed. The model is represented by a stochastic delay-differential equation (SDDE). The SDDE is then solved using approximation and numerical Monte Carlo methods. The results show that for...

In this paper,11Version of 2012/07/08. we are interested in the optimization of computing time when using Monte-Carlo simulations for the pricing of the embedded options in life insurance contracts. We propose a very simple method which consists in grouping the trajectories of the initial...

Stochastic modeling of mortality rates focuses on fitting linear models to logarithmically adjusted mortality data from the middle or late ages. Whilst this modeling enables insurers to project mortality rates and hence price mortality products it does not provide good fit for younger aged...