Böcker av Umberto (University of Bologna) Cherubini

The latest tools and techniques for pricing and risk management This book introduces readers to the use of copula functions to represent the dynamics of financial assets and risk factors, integrated temporal and cross-section applications.

Addressing the mathematics of copula functions, this book explains copulas by means of applications to major topics in derivative pricing and credit risk analysis. It focuses on the pricing of asset-backed securities and basket credit derivative products and the evaluation of counterparty risk in derivative transactions.