Financial Economics researches have become active since 1950’s and many prominent theories regarding asset pricing and corporate finance have been proposed (Markowitz, 1952; Modigliani, Miller, 1958; Sharpe, 1964; Shleifer, 2000). The assumption of the efficiency of financial markets plays an important role in the literature in traditional financial theory and many research have been conducted ...

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Using the language of convex analysis we describe key results in several important areas of finance: portfolio theory, financial derivative trading and pricing and consumption based asset pricing theory. We hope to emphasize the importance of convex analysis in financial mathematics and also bring attention to researchers in convex analysis interesting issues in financial applications.

A financial derivative, for example an option, is an instrument (contract) whose value depends on the values of some underlying variables, where the underlying can be a commodity, an interest rate, stock, a stock index, a currency, to mention just a few examples. The financial derivatives market is enormous and is regularly reported to be worth $500 trillion. Derivatives provide an efficient wa...

this paper presents an analytical view of variance reduction by control variate technique for pricing arithmetic asian options as a financial derivatives. in this paper, the effect of correlation between two random variables is shown. we propose an efficient method for choose suitable control in pricing arithmetic asian options based on the control variates (cv). the numerical experiment shows ...

Complex financial instruments are a central concept for the survival of financial enterprises in liberalized markets. The need for fast pricing of more complex and exotic financial products led to the development of new algorithms, and to the parallelization of existing algorithms. In this paper, we present a parallelization scheme for pricing path-dependent interest rate products on bounded tr...

Assessing risk assets is one of the most important research issues in the financial field. There are various pricing models of capital assets in financial. In many models, it is not possible to consider a lot of restrictions on portfolio selection. In this paper, for choosing optimal portfolios, taking into account the prosperity and recession periods, and the types of investors in terms of ris...