Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods for evaluating option contracts, analyzing financial time series, selecting portfolios and managing risks based on realistic assumptions about market behavior. The focus is both on the fundamentals of mathematical finance and financial time series analysis, and on applications to specific problems concerning financial markets, thus making the book the ideal basis for lectures, seminars and crash courses on the topic. All numerical calculations are transparent and reproducible using quantlets. For this new edition the book has been updated and extensively revised and now includes several new aspects such as neural networks, deep learning, and crypto-currencies. Both R and Matlab code, together with the data, can be downloaded from the book's product page and the Quantlet platform. The Quantlet platform quantlet.de, quantlet.com, quantlet.org is an integrated QuantNet environment consisting of different types of statistics-related documents and program codes. Its goal is to promote reproducibility and offer a platform for sharing validated knowledge native to the social web. QuantNet and the corresponding Data-Driven Documents-based visualization allow readers to reproduce the tables, pictures and calculations inside this Springer book. "This book provides an excellent introduction to the tools from probability and statistics necessary to analyze financial data. Clearly written and accessible, it will be very useful to students and practitioners alike." Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics, Princeton University

During the last decade, problems in the world of finance have been the main driving force for developing sophisticated mathematical methods which may be used for identifying and measuring risk. The focus is still on quantifying market and credit risk, but general operational risks will become more important in the future. In this book the reader will find approaches from economic theory, allocation problems, credit scoring, volatility structures, general market risk, country risk and extreme value theory. The contributions of this book reflect the views of leading practitioners and academics in the field of risk management.
Most of the models considered for the evolution of asset values are of a complex and stochastic nature, including stochastic volatility models in continuous time as well as their counterparts in discrete time, the family of GARCH-like time series. The contents reflect the fact that a major part of recent research has been motivated by applications in finance, but most of the mathematical approaches may be used for risk analysis in engineering and science in a rather straightforward manner. As known from insurance mathematics for some time, extreme damages from natural disaster follow similar stochastic laws as extreme losses from certain investments.
The articles discuss critical concepts such as value-at-risk, volatility and other risk masures in nonstandard situations. Stochastic processes beyond geometric Brownian motion allow for a more realistic reflection of stylized facts like leptokurtosis or skewness of return distrubutions which often are observed in real data. Procedures for detecting change points in time series allow for dealing with the risk of a sudden structural change of the market. Models for extremal events in financial time series or stochastic processes in continuous time are of prime importance for risk management as, in practice, these rare events frequently dominate the whole profit/loss-process.

Das Buch vermittelt die n tigen mathematischen und statistischen Grundlagen f r eine T tigkeit im Financial Engineering und gibt eine Einf hrung in die wichtigsten Ideen aus den verschiedensten Bereichen der Finanzmathematik und Finanzstatistik. Die klassische Theorie der Bewertung von Derivaten, die Grundlagen der Finanzzeitreihenanalyse wie auch statistische Aspekte beim Einsatz finanzmathematischer Verfahren, d.h. die Auswahl geeigneter Modelle, werden vorgestellt und ihre Anpassung und Validierung anhand von Daten gegeben.

Die 2. Auflage wurde durch folgende Kapitel erweitert: Copulas und Value at Risk, Multivariate GARCH Modelle, Statistik extremer Ereignisse.

Die elektronische Version unter http: //www.xplore-stat.de/ebooks/ebooks.html bietet die M glichkeit, alle Tabellen und Grafiken interaktiv zu bearbeiten.

Dieser Band erfasst die grundlegenden Lehrinhalte der Elektrotechnik und der Elektronik, die in allen Ausbildungsschwerpunkten gebraucht werden. Fur die 5. Auflage wurden alle Abschnitte uberarbeitet und aktualisiert; der Abschnitt Grundlagen der Steuerungstechnik wurde neu aufgenommen.
Reihentext: Die Bande Arbeitshilfen und Formeln fur das technische Studium helfen Schulern und Studenten an Technischen Lehranstalten im Unterricht und beim Selbststudium.