Search for dissertations about: "black scholes"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words black scholes.
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1. Essays on Lookback and Barrier Options - A Malliavin Calculus Approach
Abstract : This thesis consists of four theoretical essays on contingent claim analysis and its connection to Malliavin calculus. The first three papers are analyzed in the famous Black and Scholes model, while the setup of the fourth paper involves an international environment and the presence of exchange rates. READ MORE
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2. Option Pricing and Bayesian Learning
Abstract : This thesis consists of three chapters devoted to both empirical and theoretical aspects of option pricing. The first chapter investigates the market for European options on the Swedish OMX index using daily data for the period 1993-2000. READ MORE
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3. Calibration and Hedging in Finance
Abstract : This thesis treats aspects of two fundamental problems in applied financial mathematics: calibration of a given stochastic process to observed marketprices on financial instruments (which is the topic of the first paper) and strategies for hedging options in financial markets that are possibly incomplete (which is the topic of the second paper).Calibration in finance means choosing the parameters in a stochastic process so as to make the prices on financial instruments generated by the process replicate observed market prices. READ MORE
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4. Numerical methods for the calibration problem in finance and mean field game equations
Abstract : This thesis contains five papers and an introduction. The first four of the included papers are related to financial mathematics and the fifth paper studies a case of mean field game equations. READ MORE
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5. Derivative Prices for Models using Levy Processes and Markov Switching
Abstract : This thesis contributes to mathematics, finance and computer simulations. In terms of mathematics this thesis concerns applied probability and Lévy processes and from the financial point of view the thesis concerns derivative pricing. Within these two areas several simulation techniques are investigated. The thesis is organized as follows. READ MORE