Download or read book Sparse Grid Quadrature in High Dimensions with Applications in Finance and Insurance written by Markus Holtz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the numerical analysis and efficient numerical treatment of high-dimensional integrals using sparse grids and other dimension-wise integration techniques with applications to finance and insurance. The book focuses on providing insights into the interplay between coordinate transformations, effective dimensions and the convergence behaviour of sparse grid methods. The techniques, derivations and algorithms are illustrated by many examples, figures and code segments. Numerical experiments with applications from finance and insurance show that the approaches presented in this book can be faster and more accurate than (quasi-) Monte Carlo methods, even for integrands with hundreds of dimensions.