Department of Mathematics
University College London (UCL)
African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management (AIFMRM)
University of Cape Town
Financial Informatics
An Information-Based Approach to Asset Pricing
Edited by
Dorje Brody (University of Surrey, UK)
Lane Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Andrea Macrina (University College London, UK)
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World Scientific
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Contents
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Beyond Hazard Rates: A New Approach to Credit Risk Modelling
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Information-Based Asset Pricing
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Dam Rain and Cumulative Gain
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Informed Traders
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Credit Risk, Market Sentiment and Randomly-Timed Default
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Information of Interest
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Lévy Random Bridges and the Modelling of Financial Information
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Modelling Information Flows in Financial Markets
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Heat Kernel Interest Rate Models with Time-Inhomogeneous Markov Processes
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Lévy Information and the Aggregation of Risk Aversion
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Signal Processing with Lévy Information
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Heat Kernel Models for Asset Pricing
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Randomized Mixture Models for Pricing Kernels
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Stochastic Modelling with Randomized Markov Bridges
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Modulated Information Flows in Financial Markets
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Pricing with Variance Gamma Information
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On the Pricing of Storable Commodities
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How to Model Fake News
The Brody-Hughston-Macrina approach to information-based asset pricing introduces a new way of looking at the mechanisms determining price movements in financial markets. The resulting theory of financial informatics is applicable across a wide range of asset classes and is distinguished by its emphasis on the explicit modelling of market information flows. In the BHM theory, each asset is defined by a collection of cash flows and each such cash flow is associated with a family of one or more so-called information processes that provide partial information about the cash flow. The theory is highly appealing on an intuitive basis: it is directly applicable to trading, investment and risk management—and yet at the same time leads to interesting mathematics. The present volume brings together a collection of 18 foundational papers of the subject by Brody, Hughston, and Macrina, many written in collaboration with various co-authors. There is a preface summarizing the current status of the theory, together with a brief history and bibliography of the subject. This book will be of great interest both to newcomers to financial mathematics as well as to established researchers in the subject.