Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management, 3 Teile

Model.- Constant Elasticity of Variance Option Pricing Model: Integration and Detailed Derivation.- Stochastic Volatility Option Pricing Models.- Derivations and Applications of Greek Letters: Review and Integration.- A Further Analysis of the Convergence Rates and Patterns of the Binomial Models.- Estimating Implied Probabilities from Option Prices and the Underlying.- Are Tails Fat Enough to Explain Smile.- Option Pricing and Hedging Performance Under Stochastic Volatility and Stochastic Interest Rates.- Application of the Characteristic Function in Financial Research.- Asian Options.- Numerical Valuation of Asian Options with Higher Moments in the Underlying Distribution.- The Valuation of Uncertain Income Streams and the Pricing of Options.- Binomial OPM, Black-Scholes OPM and Their Relationship: Decision Tree and Microsoft Excel Approach.- Risk Management.- Combinatorial Methods for Constructing Credit Risk Ratings.- The Structural Approach to Modeling Credit Risk.- An Empirical Investigation of the Rationales for Integrated Risk-Management Behavior.- Copula, Correlated Defaults, and Credit VaR.- Unspanned Stochastic Volatilities and Interest Rate Derivatives Pricing.- Catastrophic Losses and Alternative Risk Transfer Instruments.- A Real Option Approach to the Comprehensive Analysis of Bank Consolidation Values.- Dynamic Econometric Loss Model: A Default Study of US Subprime Markets.- The Effect of Default Risk on Equity Liquidity: Evidence Based on the Panel Threshold Model.- Put Option Approach to Determine Bank Risk Premium.- Keiretsu Style Main Bank Relationships, R&D Investment, Leverage, and Firm Value: Quantile Regression Approach.- On the Feasibility of Laddering.- Stock Returns, Extreme Values, and Conditional Skewed Distribution.- Capital Structure in Asia and CEO Entrenchment.- A Generalized Model for Optimum Futures Hedge Ratio.- The Sensitivity of Corporate Bond Volatility to Macroeconomic Announcements.- Raw Material Convenience Yields and Business Cycle.- Alternative Methods to Determine Optimal Capital Structure: Theory and Application.- Actuarial Mathematics and Its Applications in Quantitative Finance.- The Prediction of Default with Outliers: Robust Logistic Regression.- Term Structure of Default-Free and Defaultable Securities: Theory and Empirical Evidence.- Liquidity Risk and Arbitrage Pricing Theory.- An Integrated Model of Debt Issuance, Refunding, and Maturity.- Theory, Methodology, and Applications.- Business Models: Applications to Capital Budgeting, Equity Value, and Return Attribution.- Dividends Versus Reinvestments in Continuous Time: A More General Model.- Segmenting Financial Services Market: An Empirical Study of Statistical and Non-parametric Methods.- Spurious Regression and Data Mining in Conditional Asset Pricing Models.- Issues Related to the Errors-in-Variables Problems in Asset Pricing Tests.- McMC Estimation of Multiscale Stochastic Volatility Models.- Regime Shifts and the Term Structure of Interest Rates.- ARM Processes and Their Modeling and Forecasting Methodology.- Alternative Econometric Methods for Information-based Equity-selling Mechanisms.- Implementation Problems and Solutions in Stochastic Volatility Models of the Heston Type.- Revisiting Volume vs. GARCH Effects Using Univariate and Bivariate GARCH Models: Evidence from U.S. Stock Markets.- Application of Fuzzy Set Theory to Finance Research: Method and Application.- Hedonic Regression Analysis in Real Estate Markets: A Primer.- Numerical Solutions of Financial Partial Differential Equations.- A Primer on the Implicit Financing Assumptions of Traditional Capital Budgeting Approaches.- Determinants of Flows into U.S.-Based International Mutual Funds.- Predicting Bond Yields Using Defensive Forecasting.- Range Volatility Models and Their Applications in Finance.- Examining the Impact of the U.S. IT Stock Market on Other IT Stock Markets.- Application of Alternative ODE in Finance and Economics Research.- Application of Simultaneous Equation in Finance Research.- The Fuzzy Set and Data Mining Applications in Accounting and Finance.- Forecasting S&P 100 Volatility: The Incremental Information Content of Implied Volatilities and High-Frequency Index Returns.- Detecting Structural Instability in Financial Time Series.- The Instrument Variable Approach to Correct for Endogeneity in Finance.- Bayesian Inference of Financial Models Using MCMC Algorithms.- On Capital Structure and Entry Deterrence.- VAR Models: Estimation, Inferences, and Applications.- Signaling Models and Product Market Games in Finance: Do We Know What We Know?.- Estimation of Short- and Long-Term VaR for Long-Memory Stochastic Volatility Models.- Time Series Modeling and Forecasting of the Volatilities of Asset Returns.- Listing Effects and the Private Company Discount in Bank Acquisitions.- An ODE Approach for the Expected Discounted Penalty at Ruin in Jump Diffusion Model (Reprint).- Alternative Models for Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital for Property/Casualty Insurers.- Implementing a Multifactor Term Structure Model.- Taking Positive Interest Rates Seriously.- Positive Interest Rates and Yields: Additional Serious Considerations.- Functional Forms for Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Closed-End Country Funds.- A Semimartingale BSDE Related to theMinimal Entropy Martingale Measure.- The Density Process of theMinimal Entropy Martingale Measure in a Stochastic Volatility Model with Jumps (Reprint).- Arbitrage Detection from Stock Data: An Empirical Study.- Detecting Corporate Failure.- Genetic Programming for Option Pricing.- A Constant Elasticity of Variance (CEV) Family of Stock Price Distributions in Option Pricing, Review, and Integration.

text to Statistics of Business and Financial Economics, of which he is one of the co-authors. John has been a Senior Technology Officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for PBBEF Research.