Contemporary Quantitative Finance Essays in Honour of Eckhard Platen

Carl Chiarella is currently Professor of Quantitative Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney. He holds doctorates in both applied mathematics and economics. He is the author of over 150 research articles in international journals and edited volumes and the author/coauthor of 5 books. Carl is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and Associate Editor of Quantitative Finance, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Computational Economics and European Journal of Finance.

Alexander Novikov is Professor of Mathematics (Chair in Probability) at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Technology, Sydney. He received the Doctor of Science degree in mathematics from Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow. He has edited several proceedings and published more than 80 research papers in different areas of statistics of random processes, sequential analysis, random fields and mathematical finance. Alexander has been member of the Editorial Board of Statistics and Probability Letters, Bernoulli and Methods of Mathematical Statistics.