Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance: Emaf2020 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030789640)

Marco Corazza, PhD in "Mathematics for the Analysis of Financial Markets", is an associate professor at the Department of Economics of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Among his main research interests are static and dynamic portfolio management theories; trading system models; machine learning applications in finance; bioinspired metaheuristics for optimization; multicriteria methods for economic decision support; nonstandard probability distributions in finance; and port scheduling models and algorithms. He has participated and participates in several research projects, both at the national and international levels. He is an author/coauthor of approximately one hundred thirty scientific publications; some of them have received national and international awards. He is also editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal "Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance", editor of Springer books, and has been and is member of the scientific committees of several conferences and of some private companies. His combined academic activity with consulting services.

Manfred Gilli is Professor emeritus at the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva, where he has taught numerical methods in economics and finance. He is also a faculty member of the Swiss Finance Institute, a member of the Advisory Board of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and a member of the editorial board of Computational Economics. He formerly served as president of the Society for Computational Economics.

Cira Perna is a full professor of statistics at the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Salerno (Italy). Since 2018, she has been elected a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Statistical Society; since 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Salerno; since the first edition of the Conference, in 2004, she has been a chair of the international conference MAF and guest editor of the associated international journals; and since 2006, she has been an Editor of the Springer books MAF. Her research work mainly focuses on nonlinear time series, artificial neural network models and resampling techniques. On these topics, she has published numerous papers in national and international journals. She has participated in several research projects, both at the national and international levels, and she has been a member of several scientific committees of national and international conferences.

Claudio Pizzi is an associate professor at the Department of Economics of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where he teaches statistical methods for financial and monetary markets and business statistics. His research is focused mainly on statistical analysis of financial time series, linear and nonlinear models for time series, technical analysis, trading system models, bioinspired metaheuristics for optimization, and systemic risk. Hehas participated in both national and international research projects. He is a member of the editorial board of "Statistical Method and Applications".

Marilena Sibillo is a full professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Salerno and is currently a contract professor of Financial Mathematics in the 2020/2021 academic year at Luiss University in Rome. In 2012, she was awarded a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence, and since 2013, she has been a Paul Harris Fellow. She had national and international awards related to teaching. Since 2006, she has been an editor of the Springer books MAF and Finance and a guest editor of international journals. Since 2004, she has been chair of the international conference MAF, and since 2016, she has been chair of the UNISActuarial School. She is an author of more than 100 papers mostly published in international journals and books. Her scientific activity mainly deals with risk theory, analysis and control of the interactions between financial and demographic risks, variable annuities, stochastic mortality, and innovative pension contracts.