Stochastic Finance

Preface PART I. PLENARY AND INVITED LECTURES 1. How Often to Sample a Continuous-Time Process in the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise (Yacine Aït-Sahalia, Per A. Mykland, Lan Zhang) 2. Multipower Variation and Stochastic Volatility (Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Neil Shephard) 3. Completeness of a General Semimartingale Market under Constrained Trading (Tomasz R. Bielecki, Monique Jeanblanc, Marek Rutkowski) 4. Extremal behavior of stochastic volatility models (Vicky Fasen, Claudia Klüppelberg, Alexander Lindner) 5. Capital Asset Pricing for Markets with Intensity Based Jumps (Eckhard Platen) 6. Mortgage Valuation and Optimal Refinancing (Stanley R. Pliska) 7. Computing efficient hedging strategies in discontinuous market models (Wolfgang J.Runggaldier, Sara Di Emidio) 8. A Downside Risk Analysis based on Financial Index Tracking Models (Lian Yu, Shuzhong Zhang, Xun Yu Zhou) PART II. CONTRIBUTED TALKS 9. Modelling electricity prices by the potential jump-diffusion (Svetlana Borovkova, Ferry Jaya Permana) 10. Finite dimensional Markovian realizations for forward price term structure models (Raquel M. Gaspa) 11. Good Portfolio Strategies under Transaction Costs: A Renewal Theoretic Approach (Albrecht Irle, Jörn Sass) 12. Power and Multipower Variation: inference for high frequency data (Jeannette H.C. Woerner)