In many areas of finance and stochastics, significant advances have been made since this field of research was opened by Black, Scholes and Merton in 1973. This volume contains a collection of original articles by a number of highly distinguished authors, on research topics that are currently in the focus of interest of both academics and practitioners.

F. Delbaen: Coherent Risk Measures on General Probability Spaces.- H. Föllmer/A. Schied: Robust Preferences and Convex Measures of Risk.- P. Embrechts/S.Y. Novak: Long Head-Runs and Long Match Patterns.- J. Werner: Factor Pricing in Multidate Security Markets.- J.-C. Duan/S.R. Pliska: Option Pricing for Co-Integrated Assets.- D.B. Madan/F. Milne/R.J. Elliott: Incomplete Diversification and Asset Pricing.- Y.M. Kabanov/C. Stricker: Hedging of Contingent Claims under Transaction Costs.- R. Frey/P. Patie: Risk Management for Derivatives in Illiquid Markets: A Simulation Study.- L.-C.-G. Rogers/O. Zane: A Simple Model of Liquidity Effects.- R. Bhar/C. Chiarella/W. Runggaldier: Estimation in Models of the Instantaneous Short Term Interest Rate by Use of a Dynamic Bayesian Algorithm.- E. Schlögl: Arbitrage-Free Interpolation in Models of Market Observable Interest Rates.- J. A. Nielsen/K. Sandmann: The Fair Premium of an Equity-Linked Life and Pension Insurance.- M. Schweizer: On Bermudan Options.- L.A. Shepp/A.N. Shiryaev/A. Sulem: A Barrier Version of the Russian Option.- K. Schürger: Laplace Transforms and Suprema of Stochastic Processes.- G. Peskir/A.N. Shiryaev: Solving the Poisson Disorder Problem.