dhr. prof. dr. ir. M.H. (Michel) Vellekoop


  • Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde
    Sectie Actuarial Science
  • Valckenierstraat  65
    1018 XE  Amsterdam
    Kamernummer: JK 2.21
  • m.h.vellekoop@uva.nl
    T:  0205254210

"The gap between theory and practice usually turns out to be larger in practice than in theory"

Positions

Professor, Actuarial Sciences & Mathematical Finance

Research programme

Actuarial Science

Research interests

Life Insurance, Derivatives, Stochastic Processes

Dissertation title

Rapid Detection and Estimation of Abrupt Changes by Nonlinear Filtering (1998) 

Prizes and honours

Awarded a 500.000 euro grant from Netspar for the period 2009-2014. 
SIGEST award of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2006)

Corporate ties

Director of Research, the Derivatives Technology Foundation

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching activities

Current year

Market Consistent Pricing and Embedded Value
Seminar Market Consistent Pricing
Leven Actuariaat II
Asset Pricing II (Tinbergen Insitute) 

Participation in academic networks

Coordinator of Netspar Theme "Reconciling Short Term Risks and Long Term Goals for Retirement Provisions"

Director of the Actuarial Science research programme within RESAM

Member of AMaMeF, the European Science Foundation's research programme on Advanced Mathematical Methods in Finance 

Various activities

Member of the Senate of the University of Amsterdam

Director of Research, the Derivatives Technology Foundation 

Affiliated member of the Dutch Actuarial Association 

Member of the Dutch Mathematical Society (Board member 2001-2005) 

2015

2013

2011

2010

2009

  • M. Vellekoop & H. Nieuwenhuis (2009). A tree-based method to price American options in the Heston model. Journal of Computational Finance, 13 (1), 1-21.

2009

  • M. Vellekoop & M. Davis (2009). An optimal investment problem with randomly terminating income. In Proceedings of the 48th CDC Conference (pp. 3650-3655). Shanghai.
  • M. Vellekoop & G. Vlaming (2009). Pricing American options with the SABR model. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing. Rome.

2014

  • W. de Boer, H.W.M. van Broekhoven, E.B.B. Kromme, T.J.W. Schulteis, M.H. Vellekoop, R.W.J. de Vries, B.J.M. Werker & M.R. van der Winden (2014). Prognosetafel AG2014. (extern rapport). Utrecht: Koninklijk Actuarieel Genootschap.

2013

  • R.J.A. Laeven, L. Spierdijk, A.A.J. Pelsser & M.H. Vellekoop (2013). Wetenschap bloeit door vragen uit de praktijk. In 125 jaar Actuarieel Genootschap (pp. 31-35). Actuarieel Genootschap.
  • S. de Crom, R. Dijk, A. Kock-De Kreuk, M. Vellekoop & N. Vermeijden (2013). Externe mitigatie van langlevenrisico: ook nu relevant. Actuaris, 20 (6), 34-35.

2012

  • M.H. Vellekoop (2012). Langlevenrisico bij verzekeraars. In In de wetenschap dat ...: bijdragen uit de wetenschap over de bedrijfseconomische toekomst van de verzekeringssector (pp. 8-9). Amsterdam: Amsterdam Centre for Insurance Studies.

2011

  • S. de Crom, A. de Kreuk, R. van Dijk, M. Vellekoop & N. Vermeijden (2011). Marktoplossingen voor langlevenrisico. (extern rapport, Netspar Economische Adviezen (NEA Paper), no 42). Tilburg: Netspar.

2013

2009

2008

  • A. Chen, A. Pelsser & M. Vellekoop (2008). Approximate solutions for indifference pricing under general utility functions. (intern rapport). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • A. Chen, A. Pelsser & M. Vellekoop (2008). Optimal investment and indifference pricing when risk aversion is not monotone: SAHARA utility functions. (intern rapport). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
  • A. Chen, A.A.J. Pelsser & M.H. Vellekoop (2008). Approximate solutions for indifference pricing with general utility functions. (intern rapport). Amsterdam: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde.
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