Giovanni Zambruno – författare

This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science. The book is structured in three parts, emphasizing common methodological approaches arising in the areas of interest:-          Part I: Optimization techniques-          Part II: Pricing and Valuation -          Part III: Risk ModelingThe book presents to a wide community of Academics and Practitioners a selection of theoretical and applied contributions on topics that have recently attracted increasing interest in commodity and financial markets. Within a structure based on the three parts, it presents recent state-of-the-art and original works related to:-          The adoption of multi-criteria and dynamic optimization approaches in financial and insurance markets in presence of market stress and growing systemic risk;-          Decision paradigms, based on behavioral finance or factor-based, or more classical stochastic optimization techniques, applied to portfolio selection problems including new asset classes such as alternative investments;-          Risk measurement methodologies, including model risk assessment, recently applied to energy spot and future markets and new risk measures recently proposed to evaluate risk-reward trade-offs in global financial and commodity markets; and derivatives portfolio hedging and pricing methods recently put forward in the financial community in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science. The book is structured in three parts, emphasizing common methodological approaches arising in the areas of interest:

-          Part I: Optimization techniques

-          Part II: Pricing and Valuation

-          Part III: Risk Modeling

The book presents to a wide community of Academics and Practitioners a selection of theoretical and applied contributions on topics that have recently attracted increasing interest in commodity and financial markets. Within a structure based on the three parts, it presents recent state-of-the-art and original works related to:

-          The adoption of multi-criteria and dynamic optimization approaches in financial and insurance markets in presence of market stress and growing systemic risk;

-          Decision paradigms, based on behavioral finance or factor-based, or more classical stochastic optimization techniques, applied to portfolio selection problems including new asset classes such as alternative investments;

-          Risk measurement methodologies, including model risk assessment, recently applied to energy spot and future markets and new risk measures recently proposed to evaluate risk-reward trade-offs in global financial and commodity markets; and derivatives portfolio hedging and pricing methods recently put forward in the financial community in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science. The book is structured in three parts, emphasizing common methodological approaches arising in the areas of interest:-          Part I: Optimization techniques-          Part II: Pricing and Valuation -          Part III: Risk ModelingThe book presents to a wide community of Academics and Practitioners a selection of theoretical and applied contributions on topics that have recently attracted increasing interest in commodity and financial markets. Within a structure based on the three parts, it presents recent state-of-the-art and original works related to:-          The adoption of multi-criteria and dynamic optimization approaches in financial and insurance markets in presence of market stress and growing systemic risk;-          Decision paradigms, based on behavioral finance or factor-based, or more classical stochastic optimization techniques, applied to portfolio selection problems including new asset classes such as alternative investments;-          Risk measurement methodologies, including model risk assessment, recently applied to energy spot and future markets and new risk measures recently proposed to evaluate risk-reward trade-offs in global financial and commodity markets; and derivatives portfolio hedging and pricing methods recently put forward in the financial community in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The book contains a selection of recently revised papersthat have initiallybeen presented at two different meetingsof the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling. The papersrelated to the microstructure of capital markets provideevidence that the price dynamics of financial assets can on-ly be explained - and modelled - on the basis of a carefulexamination of the decision process which leads traders tointeract and fix the equilibrium prices. The papers by Pec-cati, Luciano, Ferrari and Cornaglia belong to this catego-ry, and help considerably unterstand the performance of mar-kets which are relatively far from perfection (owing tothinness, frictions, taxation and the like). This is indeedthe case for some European Exchanges.The very foundations of quantitative financial analysis havebeen discussed in the contributions of Luciano, Canestrelli,Uberti and Van der Meulen. The classical - although recent- advances on the pricing of derivative securities have beenanalyzed and applied by Kremer, Hallerbach and Jensen/Niel-son, thus demonstrating that established theories still pro-vide space for a deeper investigation.Another major topic of interest relates to empirical studiesabout how markets behave with respect to theoretical models.In this respect, the contributions of Viren, Bradfield andWilkie/Pollock are quite significant. They present evidencebased on real data discussed in the light of advanced stati-stical techniques. It is apparent that Corporate Finance andCapital Markets are becoming more and more related and in-teractingwith each other.