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Stochastic processes and financial applications

This cluster of papers focuses on the theory and applications of option pricing models, including topics such as stochastic calculus, jump diffusion, volatility modeling, mean field games, term structure models, risk premia, Monte Carlo simulation, and market microstructure noise in the context of financial economics.

120,331 works

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Most cited

  1. ON THE PRICING OF CORPORATE DEBT: THE RISK STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES*

    Robert C. Merton · 1974 · The Journal of Finance · 11,042 citations

  2. A Closed-Form Solution for Options with Stochastic Volatility with Applications to Bond and Currency Options

    Steven L. Heston · 1993 · Review of Financial Studies · 9,209 citations

  3. A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

    John C. Cox, Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Stephen A. Ross · 1985 · Econometrica · 8,610 citations

  4. An equilibrium characterization of the term structure

    Oldrich A Vasicek · 1977 · Journal of Financial Economics · 6,295 citations

  5. Option pricing: A simplified approach

    John C. Cox, Stephen A. Ross, Mark Rubinstein · 1979 · Journal of Financial Economics · 6,225 citations

  6. Limit Theorems for Stochastic Processes.

    Ditlev Monrad, Jean Jacod, Albert N. Shiryaev · 1988 · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 4,193 citations

Most recent

  1. Refined expansions of the skew-stickiness ratio in stochastic volatility models

    Florian Bourgey, Jules Delemotte, Stefano De Marco · 2026 · Quantitative Finance · 0 citations

  2. The ergodic linear-quadratic optimal control problems for stochastic mean-field systems with periodic coefficients

    Jiacheng Wu, Qi Zhang · 2026 · ESAIM Control Optimisation and Calculus of Variations · 0 citations

  3. Finite-horizon ratcheting with perpetual commitment: optimal consumption, investment, and lock-in effects

    Junkee Jeon, Takwon Kim · 2026 · Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models · 0 citations

  4. Asymptotic behaviors for Volterra type McKean-Vlasov stochastic integral equations with small noise

    Hongjun Gao, Yaozhong Hu, Shanqi Liu · 2026 · Stochastics and Dynamics · 0 citations

  5. Stochastic Maximum Principle for Square-Integrable Optimal Control of Linearly Growing Stochastic Differential Systems Subject to a Quadratically Growing Cost Functional

    Shanjian Tang, Xueqi Wang · 2026 · SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization · 0 citations

  6. Transforms and convolutions for functionals of generalized Brownian motion paths

    Jae Gil Choi · 2026 · Integral Transforms and Special Functions · 0 citations

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