Yue Kuen KWOK



Professor & Program Director of BSc in Mathematics and Economics
 
 
   
Recent published and working papers (since 2012)
J.J. Peng, K.S. Leung and Y.K. Kwok"Pricing guaranteed minimal withdrawal benefits under stochastic interest rate," Quantitative Finance, vol. 12(6) (2012), p.933-941.
Y.K. Kwok, K.S. Leung and H.Y. Wong"Efficient option pricing under the Fast Fourier Transform,Handbook of Computational Finance, Springer, p.579-604.
C.M. Leung and Y.K. Kwok"Patent-investment games under asymmetric information," European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 223 (2012), P.441-451.
C.M. Leung and Y.K. Kwok"Numerical algorithms for R&D stochastic control models," to appear in Journal of Computational Finance.
W.D. Zheng and Y.K. Kwok"Closed form pricing formulas for discretely sampled generalized variance swaps," to appear in Mathematical Finance.
T.K. Chung and Y.K. Kwok"Equity-credit modeling under affine jump-diffusion-models with jump-to-default," to appear in Handbook on Computational Economics and Finance, Oxford University Press.
W.D. Zheng and Y.K. Kwok"Fourier transform algorithms for pricing and hedging discretely sampled exotic variance products and volatility derivatives under additive processes," to appear in  Journal of Computational Finance.
W.D. Zheng and Y.K. Kwok"Saddlepoint approximation methods for pricing derivatives on discretely sampled realized variance," to appear in Applied Mathematical Finance.
C.M. Leung and Y.K. Kwok"Real options game models of R&D competition between asymmetric firms with spillovers," submitted to Journal of Economic and Dynamic Control.
Y.T. Huang and Y.K. Kwok"Analysis of optimal dynamic withdrawal policies in withdrawal guarantees products," submitted to Mathematical Fiance.

Published papers in Financial Mathematics (1997-2011)


Presentation files of research seminars (since 2013)


Books


Lecture notes

Undergraduate courses
     Fundamentals of mathematical finance (MATH 4512)
     Probability and random process (MATH 246)
     Complex analysis (MATH 304)
     Mathematics and Social Choice Theory (MATH 4823)
     Quantitative methods for risk management (RMBI 4210)
    

MSc courses
     Quantitative models of derivative securities (MAFS 5030)
     Computational methods for pricing structured products (MAFS 5250)
     Mathematical models of investment (MAFS 521)
     Quantitiative and statistical risk analysis (MAFS 522)
     Advanced credit risk models (MAFS523)
     Structured products and exotic options (FINA 556)
     Risk Management

Postgraduate courses
     Mathematical models of financial derivatives (MATH 571)
     Advanced Topics in Derivative Pricing Models (MATH6380)
     Credit risk: Models, pricing and implementation (MATH 685R)
     Mathematical models in financial economics (MATH 685Z)
     Dynamic credit models and portfolio risk analysis
     Investment science and portfolio analysis


Orientation Presentations

MAEC 11



Research seminars



Industrial courses (brochures)



Articles in Derivatives Week and Enclopedia of Financial Engineering and Risk Management
 

 


  

Research Interests:

Financial mathematics; Derivatives pricing theory; Credit risk theory


Curriculum Vita
 
Email:  maykwok@ust.hk
Fax number: (852) 2358 1643
Tel. number: (852) 2358 7418


Department of Mathematics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Hong Kong, China