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Rare Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods
Rare Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods
In a probabilistic model, a rare event is an event with a very small probability of occurrence. The forecasting of rare events is a formidable task but is important in many areas. For instance a catastrophic failure in a transport system or in a nuclear power plant, the failure of an information processing system in a bank, or in the communication...
Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?
Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?
Praise for Lecturing Birds On Flying

"Finally, a book taking a critical look at quantitative finance models, illuminating both their flawed fantasy assumptions as well as the uncritical use of such models on Wall Street, in many cases, leading to billion dollar losses. Pablo Triana knows both the financial...

The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis
The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis

The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.

Rather than focus on who is to blame, though, author Wolfgang Münchau takes the more practical approach of focusing on...

Modelling, Pricing, and Hedging Counterparty Credit Exposure: A Technical Guide (Springer Finance)
Modelling, Pricing, and Hedging Counterparty Credit Exposure: A Technical Guide (Springer Finance)

The credit crisis that started in 2007, with the collapse of well-established financial institutions and the bankruptcy of many public corporations, has clearly shown the importance for any company entering the derivative business of modelling, pricing, and hedging its counterparty credit exposure.

Building an accurate...

Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself
Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself

"Sloan's easy and informative writing makes for a thoroughly worthwhile update."--BARRON’S

"A useful corrective to the view of short selling as 'unpatriotic' or uniquely anti-social."--John Plender, Financial Times, November 16, 2009

"I liked this...

Money and Ideas: Four Studies on Finance, Innovation and the Business Life Cycle (International Studies in Entrepreneurship)
Money and Ideas: Four Studies on Finance, Innovation and the Business Life Cycle (International Studies in Entrepreneurship)

The lifecycle of businesses is complicated. Right from birth, businesses experience not just opportunities but also many hurdles. The primary obstacle for all businesses is access to capital; drawing from a variety of fields and research perspectives, this book presents four scientific studies that explore the implications of financial...

How Fighter Pilots Use Math (Math in the Real World)
How Fighter Pilots Use Math (Math in the Real World)

The jet engine roars as Colonel Maria Sanchez races the F-35 down the runway. The plane leaps into the air. At 1,000 feet, she banks and circles the Air Force base to give three other fighter planes time to take off and join her.

Sanchez heads north. The three other planes fall into formation around her. Together, the planes make a...

Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System
Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System

Industry luminary Robert Pozen offers his insights on the future of U.S. finance

The recent credit crisis and the resulting bailout program are unprecedented events in the financial industry. While it's important to understand what got us here, it's even more important to consider how we should get out. While there is...

JavaSpaces in Practice
JavaSpaces in Practice

This book shows developers how to use JavaSpaces to build practical, scalable, distributed systems. *The authors are pioneers in the use of JavaSpaces to build real systems that solve real problems. *It will increase the understanding of where JavaSpaces are applicable, and how to use them effectively within your system architecture. *Well...

Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)
Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)

Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities.

The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international...

Digital Signal Processing: System Analysis and Design
Digital Signal Processing: System Analysis and Design

This new, fully-revised edition covers all the major topics of digital signal processing (DSP) design and analysis in a single, all-inclusive volume, interweaving theory with real-world examples and design trade-offs. Building on the success of the original, this edition includes new material on random signal processing, a new chapter on...

Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss
Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"—concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York—fueled his unstoppable rise up the...

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