Presents the developments arising from the combination of mathematics, numerical analysis, and finance. This book covers a wide range of topics, from portfolio management and asset pricing, to performance, risk, debt and real option evaluation. It also presents applications of a variety of...

The seminal work of Mandelbrot and Fama, carried out in the sixties, suggested the class of alpha-stable laws as a probabilistic model of financial assets returns. Stable distributions possess several properties which make plausible their application in the field of finance - heavy tails, excess...