Computational Methods in Financial Engineering

Portfolio Optimization and Option Pricing.- Threshold Accepting Approach to Improve Bound-based Approximations for Portfolio Optimization.- Risk Preferences and Loss Aversion in Portfolio Optimization.- Generalized Extreme Value Distribution and Extreme Economic Value at Risk (EE-VaR).- Portfolio Optimization under VaR Constraints Based on Dynamic Estimates of the Variance-Covariance Matrix.- Optimal Execution of Time-Constrained Portfolio Transactions.- Semidefinite Programming Approaches for Bounding Asian Option Prices.- The Evaluation of Discrete Barrier Options in a Path Integral Framework.- Estimation and Classification.- Robust Prediction of Beta.- Neural Network Modelling with Applications to Euro Exchange Rates.- Testing Uncovered Interest Rate Parity and Term Structure Using Multivariate Threshold Cointegration.- Classification Using Optimization: Application to Credit Ratings of Bonds.- Evolving Decision Rules to Discover Patterns in Financial Data Sets.- Banking, Risk and Macroeconomic Modelling.- A Banking Firm Model: The Role of Market, Liquidity and Credit Risks.- Identification of Critical Nodes and Links in Financial Networks with Intermediation and Electronic Transactions.- An Analysis of Settlement Risk Contagion in Alternative Securities Settlement Architectures.- Integrated Risk Management: Risk Aggregation and Allocation Using Intelligent Systems.- A Stochastic Monetary Policy Interest Rate Model.- Duali: Software for Solving Stochastic Control Problems in Economics.