Bank valuation and its connections with the subprime mortgage crisis and basel II capital accord.
Bounds for Value at Risk - The Approach Based on Copulas with Homogeneous Tails.
Bounds of Ruin Probabilities for Insurance Companies in the Presence of Stochastic Volatility on Investments⋆⋆⋆
In this work we consider a model of an insurance company where the insurer has to face a claims process which follows a Compound Poisson process with finite exponential moments. The insurer is allowed to invest in a bank account and in a risky asset described by Geometric Brownian motion with stochastic volatility that depends on an external factor modelled as a diffusion process. By using exponential martingale techniques we obtain upper and lower...
Building bridges between Mathematics, Insurance and Finance
Paul Embrechts is Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich specializing in Actuarial Mathematics and Quantitative Risk Management. Previous academic positions include the Universities of Leuven, Limburg and London (Imperial College). Dr. Embrechts has held visiting professorships at several universities, including the Scuola Normale in Pisa (Cattedra Galileiana), the London School of Economics (Centennial Professor of Finance), the University of Vienna, Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), theNationalUniversity...