Ambit stochastics is the name for the theory and applications of ambit fields and ambit processes and constitutes a new research area in stochastics for tempo-spatial phenomena. This paper gives an overview of the main findings in ambit stochastics up to date and establishes new results on general properties of ambit fields. Moreover, it develops the concept of tempo-spatial stochastic volatility/intermittency within ambit fields. Various types of volatility modulation ranging from stochastic scaling...

Motivated by classical considerations from risk theory, we investigate boundary crossing problems for refracted Lévy processes. The latter is a Lévy process whose dynamics change by subtracting off a fixed linear drift (of suitable size) whenever the aggregate process is above a pre-specified level. More formally, whenever it exists, a refracted Lévy process is described by the unique strong solution to the stochastic differential equation dUt=−δ1{Ut>b} dt+dXt, where X={Xt : t≥0} is a Lévy...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 60G51, secondary 60G70, 60F17.We discuss weak limit theorems for a uniformly negligible triangular array (u.n.t.a.) in Z = [0, ∞) × [0, ∞)^d as well as for the associated with it sum and extremal processes on an open subset S . The complement of S turns out to be the explosion area of the limit Poisson point process. In order to prove our criterion for weak convergence of the sum processes we introduce and study sum processes over explosion area....