UMBERTO CHERUBINI is Professor of Financial Mathematics at the University of Bologna. He is fellow of the Financial Econometrics Research Center (FERC), University of Warwick and Ente Einaudi, Bank of Italy. He teaches risk management programs for professionals at the Italian Banking Association, and does consulting work with Prometeia, an Italian firm specialized in research and consultancy in economics and finance. He has published in international journals in economics and finance and has co-written the book Copula Methods in Finance (published in 2004 by John Wiley). GIOVANNI DELLA LUNGA is responsible for Market Risk Methodologies at Prometeia, an Italian firm specialized in research and consultancy in economics and finance. He teaches Finance and Computer Programming at University of Insubria (Varese, Italy) and has published in international journal in physics and chemistry.
This book builds upon the concept of object to provide frontier treatment of structured finance issues relevant to both communities engaged in building, pricing and hedging products and people engaged in designing and up-dating the corresponding software. (Zentralblatt MATH, 2010)