Mathematical Methods for Finance

SERGIO M. FOCARDI, PhD, is a Visiting Professor in the College of Business at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and founding partner of the Paris-based consulting firm The Intertek Group. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio Management. Focardi has authored numerous articles and books on financial modeling and risk management and three monographs for the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. FRANK J. FABOZZI, PhD, CFA, is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and a member of the EDHEC-Risk Institute. Prior to joining EDHEC in August 2011, he held various professorial positions in finance at Yale University's School of Management from 1994 to 2011 and was a visiting professor of finance and accounting at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1986 to 1992. He is also Editor of the Journal of Portfolio Management. TURAN G. BALI, PhD, is the Robert S. Parker Chair Professor of Business Administration at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Before joining Georgetown, Professor Bali was the David Krell Chair Professor of Finance at Baruch College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He also held visiting faculty positions at New York University and Princeton University. Professor Bali has published more than fifty articles in economics and finance journals. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Portfolio Management, and Journal of Risk.