Preface -- Exotic options -- Passport to success / Hyer, Lipton, Pugachevsky -- Similarities via self-similarities / Lipton -- Predictability and unpredictability in financial markets / Lipton -- Universal barriers / Lipton, McGhee -- Pricing of vanilla and first generation exotic options /...

Key Features:Contributors are practitioners and academics from leading institutions such as Citigroup, Lehmen Brothers, JP Morgan, University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Stanford University.

This handbook provides a timely discussion of the mathematical modelling that underpins both credit derivatives and securitisation. It covers statistical analysis and techniques modelling of default of both single and multiple entities counterparty risk, Gaussian and non-Gaussian modelling, and...