Books in the Academic Press Advanced Finance series

Offers a technique for volatility forecasting that draws on insights from the use of multifractals in the natural sciences and mathematics and provides a treatment of the use of multifractal techniques in finance. This book aims to popularize the approach by presenting these developments to a wider audience.

Internal ratings-based systems are widely used in banks to calculate their value-at-risk (VAR) in order to determine their capital requirements for loan and bond portfolios under Basel II. This book addresses one aspect of these ratings systems which is credit migrations.