This book is designed for students, researchers and practitioners who want to be introduced to modern statistical tools applied in finance and insurance. It is the result of a joint effort of the Center for Economic Research (CentER), Center for Applied Statistics and Economics (C.A.S.E.) and Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Methods (HSC). All three institutions brought in their specific profiles and created with this book a wide-angle view on and solutions to up-to-date practical problems.
The text is comprehensible for a graduate student in financial engineering as well as for an inexperienced newcomer to quantitative finance and insurance who wants to get a grip on advanced statistical tools applied in these fields. An experienced reader with a bright knowledge of financial and actuarial mathematics will probably skip some sections but will hopefully enjoy the various computational tools. Finally, a practitioner might be familiar with some of the methods. However, the statistical techniques related to modern financial products, like MBS or CAT bonds, will certainly attract him.