Professor of Mathematical Finance
Head of the Oxford Mathematical and Computational Finance Group.
Professorial Fellow, St Hugh's College.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Member, Data Science Group.
Member, Stochastic Analysis Group.
Personal Website:
+44 1865 280614
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted Books:
Stochastic Integration by Parts and Functional Itô Calculus
ISBN-13: 9783319271279
(23 March 2016)
Highlighted Publications:
Pathwise integration with respect to paths of finite quadratic variation
JOURNAL DE MATHEMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUEES
issue 6
volume 107
page 737-757
(29 October 2016)
Full text available
FUNCTIONAL ITO CALCULUS AND STOCHASTIC INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION OF MARTINGALES
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
issue 1
volume 41
page 109-133
(January 2013)
Full text available
Universal features of price formation in financial markets: perspectives
from Deep Learning
Full text available
Pathwise integration and change of variable formulas for continuous
paths with arbitrary regularity
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Full text available
Recent Publications:
Special Issue: Monitoring Systemic Risk: Data, Models and Metrics
Statistics and Risk Modeling
issue 3-4
volume 34
page 89-
(1 September 2017)
Credit default swaps and systemic risk
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
issue 2
volume 247
page 523-547
(December 2016)
Full text available
FIRE SALES FORENSICS: MEASURING ENDOGENOUS RISK
MATHEMATICAL FINANCE
issue 4
volume 26
page 835-866
(October 2016)
Full text available
Research Interests:
Stochastic analysis: pathwise methods in stochastic analysis, Functional Ito calculus.
Mathematical modeling in finance. Systemic Risk and financial stability.
Mathematical foundations and applications of Data Science.
Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships:
Louis Bachelier Prize (French Academy of Sciences, 2010).
Fellow of the Society for Industrial And Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2017.
Royal Society APEX Award for Excellence in Interdiscplinary Research (2017).
Major / Recent Publications:
Books
- R Cont: Functional Ito calculus and functional Kolmogorov equations, in: V Bally et al: Stochastic integration by parts and Functional Ito calculus (Lectures Notes of the Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis, Centro de Recerca de Matematica, July 2012), Springer: 2016.
- R Cont & P Tankov: Financial modelling with jump processes, Chapman and Hall/ CRC Press, 2003.
- R Cont (Editor in Chief): Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance Wiley (2010).
Recent publications
- A Ananova, R Cont (2017) Pathwise integration with respect to paths of finite quadratic variation, Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees, Vol 107.
- R Cont, A Kalinin (2018) On the support of solutions to SDEs with path-dependent coefficients, ARXIV.
- R Cont, N Perkowski (2018) Pathwise integration and change of variable formulas for continuous paths with arbitrary regularity.
- R Cont, J Sirignano (2018) Universal Features of Price Formation in Financial Markets: Perspectives From Deep Learning.
- H Chiu, R Cont (2018) On pathwise quadratic variation for cadlag functions, ARXIV.
- R Cont (2017) Central clearing and risk transformation, Financial Stability Review, April 2017, 127-140.
- R Cont, Eric Schaanning (2016) Fire sales, indirect contagion and systemic stress-testing. Norges Bank Working Paper
- R Cont, Yi Lu (2016) Weak approximations for martingale representations, Stochastic Processes and Applications, Volume 126, Issue 3, March 2016, Pages 857--882.
- H Amini, R Cont, A Minca: Resilience to contagion in financial networks, Mathematical finance, Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 329--365, April 2016.
- R Cont, L Wagalath: Fire sale forensics: measuring endogenous risk. Mathematical Finance, Volume 26, Issue 4 (Oct. 2016) 835-866.