The classic contingent-claims pricing model views the borrower’s right to default ona mortgage as a put option. By defaulting on a mortgage the borrower effectivelysells the property to the lender with the current value of the mortgage. The primarygoal of this dissertation is to develop a...

In this paper we propose a feasible way to price American options in a model with time varying volatility and conditional skewness and leptokurtosis using GARCH processes and the Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution. We show how the risk neutral dynamics can be obtained in this model, we...

With deregulation in the electric power industry, traditionalapproaches for minimizing production costs have become unfit forthe present competitive environment. Owners of generationassets must now consider price uncertainty in solving unitcommitment problems for scheduling and operating their...