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Real Options Valuation: The Importance of Stochastic Process Choice in Commod…
The Author shows that modelling the uncertain cash flow dynamics of an investment project deserves careful attention in real options valuation. Focusing on the case of commodity price uncertainty, a broad empirical study reveals that, contrary to common assumptions, prices are often non-stationary and exhibit non-normally distributed returns. Subsequently, more realistic stochastic volatility, …
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- 978-3-658-07493-7
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- 332
A Time Series Approach to Option Pricing: Models, Methods and Empirical Perfo…
The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices. The Black Scholes framework is introduced and by underlining its shortcomings, an alternative approach…
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- 978-3-662-45037-6
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- XVI, 188
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- 332 CHO t
A Theory of Sustainable Sociocultural and Economic Development
Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding? While recognizing that the obstacles facing poor nations are many and complex, Rabie proposes that the roots of most obstacles are sociocultural; thus, sociocultural transformation and economic restructuring can only be successful when treated as interconnected, mutu…
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- 978-1-137-57952-2
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- XI, 243
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- 339 RAB t
A Theory of Sustainable Sociocultural and Economic Development
Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding? While recognizing that the obstacles facing poor nations are many and complex, Rabie proposes that the roots of most obstacles are sociocultural; thus, sociocultural transformation and economic restructuring can only be successful when treated as interconnected, mutu…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-57952-2
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- XI, 243
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- 339 RAB t
A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation
Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources. Keynes drew inspiration from Ma…
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- 978-1-137-56221-0
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- VIII, 136
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- 332 ARO t
Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Ri…
This second edition expands the first chapters, which focus on the approach to risk management issues discussed in the first edition, to offer readers a better understanding of the risk management process and the relevant quantitative phases. In the following chapters the book examines life insurance, non-life insurance and pension plans, presenting the technical and financial aspects of risk t…
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- 978-3-319-21377-4
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Real Estate Investing: Market Analysis, Valuation Techniques, and Risk Manage…
This book describes in full the major approaches used to evaluate investment in real estate and shows how theory informs decision-aid methods and tools to support such evaluation. The inclusion of numerous examples makes it also a practical guide to assessing the suitability of an investment property. The first part of the text is devoted to an analysis of the housing market through the stud…
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- 978-3-319-06397-3
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- 332
Genetically Modified Crops and Agricultural Development
“This book is the second publication in the ‘Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy’ series, and targets both professional and lay audiences. … this book can be recommended to a wide readership; excellently written, it is one of the first books to address both the technical and policy dimensions of GMCs in development.” (George H. L. Rothschild, Food Security, Vol.…
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- 978-1-349-56167-4
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- XVII, 206
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- 330 QAI g
Rationality and Operators: The Formal Structure of Preferences
This unique book develops an operational approach to preference and rationality as the author employs operators over binary relations to capture the concept of rationality. A preference is a basis of individual behavior and social judgment and is mathematically regarded as a binary relation on the set of alternatives. Traditionally, an individual/social preference is assumed to satisfy compl…
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- 978-981-10-1896-1
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- 330.16
Environmental and Social-economic Impacts of Sewage Sludge Treatment The Evi…
This book presents an experimental simulation of sewage treatment, which is designed to evaluate the environmental and social-economic impacts of integrated sewage treatment policies. The author puts forward a comprehensive linear optimization simulation model that takes the environmental, energy and economic systems into consideration. Beijing was selected as a typical Chinese city for the pur…
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- 978-981-287-948-6
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
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