RECENT ADVANCES IN FINANCIAL Proceedings of the 2008 Daiwa International Workshop on Financial Engineering CONTENTS Preface v Program ...

This book consists of 11 papers based on research presented at the KIER-TMU International Workshop on Financial Engineering, held in Tokyo in 2009. The Workshop, organised by Kyoto University's Institute of Economic Research (KIER) and Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), is the successor to the...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROGRAM -- The Distribution of Returns at Longer Horizons -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminary Evidence on Scaling and Accumulating i.i.d. Variates -- 3. Combining the Accumulation of i.i.d. Variates with Scaling -- 4. Estimating the Scaling Coefficients c, γ --...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Program -- Risk Sensitive Investment Management with Affine Processes: A Viscosity Approach M. Davis and S. Lleo -- Keywords: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analytical Setting -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Factor Dynamics -- 2.3 Asset Market Dynamics -- 2.4 Portfolio Dynamics...