The last decades have seen the development of a profusion of theoretical models of the term structure of interest rates. The aim of this survey is to provide a comprehensive review of these continuous time modeling techniques of the term structure applicable to value and hedge default-free bonds...

[eng] Insurance-Company Risk Connected with Life-Insurance Contracts . by Christophe Berthelot, Mireille Bossy and Nathalie Pistre . Life-insurance contracts in francs are in fact capitalisation contracts which provide a return with the dual advantage of offering a guaranteed rate and benefiting...

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear P.D.E. in the weak sense: When the initial condition is a probability on R, the solution Ut is the distribution of the random variable Xt where (Xt) is a nonlinear stochastic process in the sense of McKean.

We construct a confined Langevin type process aimed to satisfy a mean no-permeability condition at the boundary. This Langevin process lies in the class of conditional McKean Lagrangian stochastic models studied by Bossy, Jabir and Talay (2010) [5]. The confined process considered here is a...

In this paper we present two parallel Monte Carlo based algorithms for pricing multi-dimensional Bermudan/American options. First approach relies on computation of the optimal exercise boundary while the second relies on classification of continuation and exercise values. We also evaluate the...

We study the approximation problem of Ef(XT) by Ef(XTn), where (Xt) is the solution of a stochastic differential equation, (Xtn) is defined by the Euler discretization scheme with step Tn, and f is a given function. For smooth f's, Talay and Tubaro had shown that the error Ef(XT) − Ef(XTn) can...

In this paper we study the convergence rate of the numerical approximation of the quantiles of the marginal laws of (Xt), where (Xt) is a diffusion process, when one uses a Monte Carlo method combined with the Euler discretization scheme. Our convergence rate estimates are obtained under two...