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In probability theory and statistics, a Hawkes process is an age-dependent branching process driven by immigration from an inhomogeneous Poisson process. The process, named after Alan G. Hawkes, is also called a self-exciting point process., i.e., the occurrence of an event increases the likelihood of another event occurring. It has arrivals at times

The LIBOR market model, also known as the BGM Model (Brace Gatarek Musiela Model, in reference to the names of some of the inventors) is a financial model of interest rates. It is used for pricing interest rate derivatives, especially exotic derivatives like Bermudan swaptions, ratchet caps and floors, target redemption notes, autocaps, zero coupon swaptions, constant maturity swaps and

The Snell envelope, used in stochastics and mathematical finance, is the smallest supermartingale dominating a stochastic process. The Snell envelope is named after James Laurie Snell.