Numerical Methods in Finance

Introduction; 1. Convergence of numerical schemes for degenerate parabolic equations arising in finance theory G. Barles; 2. Continuous-time Monte Carlo methods and variance reduction Nigel J. Newton; 3. Recent advances in numerical methods for pricing derivative securities M. Broad and J. Detemple; 4. American options: a comparison of numerical methods F. AitSahlia and P. Carr; 5. Fast, accurate and inelegant valuation of American options Adriaan Joubert and L. C. G. Rogers; 6. Valuation of American options in a jump-diffusion model Xiao Lan Zhang; 7. Some nonlinear methods for studying far-from-the-money contingent claims E. Fournié, J. M. Lasry and P.-L. Lions; 8. Stochastic volatility models E. Fournié, J. M. Lasry and N. Touzi; 9. Dynamic optimisation for a mixed portfolio with transaction costs Agnès Sulem; 10. Imperfect markets and backward stochastic differential equations N. El Karoui and M. C. Quenez; 11. Numerical methods for backward stochastic differential equations D. Chevance; 12. Viscosity solutions and numerical schemes for investment/consumption models with transaction costs Agnès Tourin and Thaleia Zariphopoulou; 13. Does volatility jump or just diffuse? A statistical approach Renzo G. Avesani and Pierre Bertrand; 14. Martingale-based hedge error control Peter Bossaerts and Bas Werker; 15. The use of second order stochastic dominance to bound European call prices: theory and results Claude Henin and Nathalie Pistre.