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The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
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- 9780262274043
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- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Financial innovation :too much or too little?
This text, which includes two contributions from Robert Shiller as well as a discussion of Shiller's 'MacroMarkets' tool, considers the key ingredients of financial innovation from both academia and industry; the postive potential but also the risks of financial innovation and the influence of producers on consumers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305495
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 252 pages) :illustrations
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Venture Capital and the Inventive Process VC Funds for Ideas-Led Growth
The inventive process is the most important driver of economic growth. Venture capital (VC) funds have contributed a small, but critical, part to the inventive process. VC funds boost the inventive process by selecting a small number of radical ideas out a large flow of ideas and invest in their testing, development and commercialization. They bring together capital from general savings, manage…
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- 978-1-137-53660-0
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Assessing Relative Valuation in Equity Markets: Bridging Research and Practice
This book addresses the gap between the widespread use of stock market multiples in valuation practice and the frontiers of research on multiples. The book's approach is twofold: the authors first analyse the performance of multiples metrics in predicting the market price of a set of liquid and highly traded US stocks. The authors then employ these results to test profitable stock purchasing st…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-56335-4
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- XIV, 180
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- 658.155 ROS a
The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events. This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academ…
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- 978-1-137-49449-8
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- XIX, 316
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- The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
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Optimum Investment Strategy in the Power Industry Mathematical Models
This book presents an innovative methodology for identifying optimum investment strategies in the power industry. To do so, it examines results including, among others, the impact of oxy-fuel technology on CO2 emissions prices, and the specific cost of electricity production. The technical and economic analysis presented here extend the available knowledge in the field of investment optimizati…
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- 978-3-319-31872-1
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The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academics in the areas of banking, mathematics, and law to present original research on the key issues affecting financial modelling since the 2008 financial crisis. As well as exploring themes of distributional assumptions and efficiency the Handbook also explores how financial modelling can possibly be re-interpreted in light of t…
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- 978-1-137-49449-8
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- XIX, 316
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Venture Capital and the Inventive Process VC Funds for Ideas-Led Growth
The inventive process is the most important driver of economic growth. Venture capital (VC) funds have contributed a small, but critical, part to the inventive process. VC funds boost the inventive process by selecting a small number of radical ideas out a large flow of ideas and invest in their testing, development and commercialization. They bring together capital from general savings, manage…
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- 978-1-137-53660-0
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- XIV, 123
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Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering
The new edition of this influential textbook, geared towards graduate or advanced undergraduate students, teaches the statistics necessary for financial engineering. In doing so, it illustrates concepts using financial markets and economic data, R Labs with real-data exercises, and graphical and analytic methods for modeling and diagnosing modeling errors. These methods are critical because fin…
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- 978-1-4939-2614-5
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- XXVI, 719, 113 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
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Exchange-Traded Funds Investment Practices and Tactical Approaches
With Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) sponsors constantly making new types of ETFs available, there is now a variety of ETFs that provide investors with an opportunity to develop diversified investment portfolios. Their sophistication has also grown to include a breed of ETFs that do not passively track the performance of an underlying index. With this assortment of newer ETFs, and more on the way, m…
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- 978-1-137-39094-3
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
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