Jump risk plays an important role in current financial markets, yet it is a risk that cannot be easily measured and hedged. We numerically evaluate American call options under stochastic volatility, stochastic interest rates and jumps in both the asset price and volatility. By employing the...

This paper proposes a framework for pricing credit derivatives within the defaultable Markovian HJM framework featuring unspanned stochastic volatility. Motivated by empirical evidence, hump-shaped level dependent stochastic volatility specifications are proposed, such that the model admits...

Part I The Fundamentals of Derivative Security Pricing -- 1 The Stock Option Problem -- 2 Stochastic Processes for Asset Price Modelling -- 3 An Initial Attempt at Pricing an Option -- 4 The Stochastic Differential Equation -- 5 Manipulating Stochastic Differential Equations and Stochastic...