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2013

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Level Crossing Times In Mathematical Finance, Ofosuhene Osei May 2013

Level Crossing Times In Mathematical Finance, Ofosuhene Osei

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Level crossing times and their applications in finance are of importance, given certain threshold levels that represent the "desirable" or "sell" values of a stock. In this thesis, we make use of Wald's lemmas and various deep results from renewal theory, in the context of finance, in modelling the growth of a portfolio of stocks. Several models are employed .