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Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R (Statistics in Practice)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Introduces the latest techniques advocated for measuring financial market risk and portfolio optimization, and provides a plethora of R code examples that enable the reader to replicate the results featured throughout the book.

Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimization with R:

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World)

Apress, 2012

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features, and consequences of Roman economic development and integrating additional web-based materials, it is designed as an up-to-date survey that is accessible...

Formal Concept Analysis: Foundations and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2005

Formal concept analysis has been developed as a field of applied mathematics based on the mathematization of concept and concept hierarchy. It thereby allows us to mathematically represent, analyze, and construct conceptual structures. The formal concept analysis approach has been proven successful in a wide range of application fields.

This...

Internet and Network Economics: 6th International Workshop

Springer, 2011

The present volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), an interdisciplinary forum devoted to the analysis of algorithmic and economic problems arising in the context of the Internet and the World Wide Web.

WINE 2010 was held December 13–17...

Convex Optimization with Computational Errors (Springer Optimization and Its Applications)

Springer, 2020

The book is devoted to the study of approximate solutions of optimization problems in the presence of computational errors. It contains a number of results on the convergence behavior of algorithms in a Hilbert space, which are known as important tools for solving optimization problems. The research presented in the book is the continuation...

Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics (Elgar Original Reference)

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

This major new Handbook consists of over 30 contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance, currently taking place within heterodox economics.

There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ones can be identified. The first concerns the nature...

Psychology's Grand Theorists: How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

I first had the idea of writing this book when I was in my senior year as an undergraduate at Williams College. I had just read Robert Heilbroner's book, The Worldly Philosophers (1972), for a class on the history of economic thought. In his book, Heilbroner brings the field of economics to life by showing how the theories of the major economists...

Design of Observational Studies (Springer Series in Statistics)

Springer, 2009

An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine, economics, epidemiology, education, psychology, political science and sociology. The...

Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics: A MATLAB-Based Introduction (Statistics in Practice)

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

A state-of-the-art introduction to the powerful mathematical and statistical tools used in the field of finance The use of mathematical models and numerical techniques is a practice employed by a growing number of applied mathematicians working on applications in finance. Reflecting this development, Numerical Methods in Finance and...

Caregiving for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders: Research Practice Policy

Springer, 2012

Assisting someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another illness that causes dementia is incredibly demanding and stressful for the family. Like many disabling conditions, Alzheimer’s disease leads to difficulty or inability to carry out common activities of daily life, and so family members take over a variety of tasks ranging from...

Decision Economics. Designs, Models, and Techniques for Boundedly Rational Decisions (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing)

Springer, 2018

The special session on Decision Economics (DECON) is a scientific forum held annually, which is focused on sharing ideas, projects, research results, models, and experiences associated with the complexity of behavioural decision processes and socio?economic phenomena. In 2018, DECON was held at Campus Tecnológico de la...

Schaum's Easy Outline of Principles of Economics

McGraw-Hill, 2003

For students looking for a quick nuts and bolts overview to the Principles of Economics. Gives students quick pointers to the essentials. Softcover.

About the Author
Dominic Salvatore, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Department Chairman at Fordham University in New York. He is a Fellow of...

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