This self-contained volume brings together a collection of chapters by some of the most distinguished researchers and practitioners in the fields of mathematical finance and financial engineering. Presenting state-of-the-art developments in theory and practice, the Festschrift is dedicated to Dilip B. Madan on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Variance-Gamma and Related Stochastic Processes.- The Early Years of the Variance-Gamma Process.- Variance-Gamma and Monte Carlo.- Some Remarkable Properties of Gamma Processes.- A Note About Selberg's Integrals in Relation with the Beta-Gamma Algebra.- Itô Formulas for Fractional Brownian Motion.- Asset and Option Pricing.- A Tutorial on Zero Volatility and Option Adjusted Spreads.- Asset Price Bubbles in Complete Markets.- Taxation and Transaction Costs in a General Equilibrium Asset Economy.- Calibration of Lévy Term Structure Models.- Pricing of Swaptions in Affine Term Structures with Stochastic Volatility.- Forward Evolution Equations for Knock-Out Options.- Mean Reversion Versus Random Walk in Oil and Natural Gas Prices.- Credit Risk and Investments.- Beyond Hazard Rates: A New Framework for Credit-Risk Modelling.- A Generic One-Factor Lévy Model for Pricing Synthetic CDOs.- Utility Valuation of Credit Derivatives: Single and Two-Name Cases.- Investment and Valuation Under Backward and Forward Dynamic Exponential Utilities in a Stochastic Factor Model.