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A guide to quantitative finance

tools and techniques for understanding and implementing financial analytics

Compiled by a professor of mathematical finance, Marcello Minenna, this extensive manual will enable the reader to: understand the models adopted by the financial markets; evaluate the practical application of these models; implement the models presented; and develop the skills required to independently tailor new ...

Interest rates derivatives

a practical guide to applications, pricing and modeling

"Interest Rate Derivatives" describes: Pricing methods; Application, structuring and valuation of interest rate and Cross currency Swap and interest Options; Methods of managing interest rate exposure; and, Trading and hedging strategies and their application in portfolio management. Basic interest rate mathematics are explored and built ...

Cirque du Soleil

th spark. Igniting the creative fire that lives within us all

The former president of creative content for Cirque du Soleil and a veteran journalist emphasize the power of creativity to transform one's life and career, in a fable about a sports marketing professional who discovers the secrets to fueling the creative spark.

Byzance

économie et société. Du milieu du VIIIe siècle à 1204

Entre le VIII et le XIIIe siècle, le monde byzantin a connu une expansion économique importante qui a permis le développement d'une brillante société. Comme en Occident, cette expansion est facilitée par la reprise démographique, mais aussi par la croissance des échanges. Les IXe ...

Corporate derivatives

practical insights for real-life understanding

Triana guides the reader through this diverse and expanding field, providing answers to the important questions affecting today's corporate derivatives landscape. With highly relevant, practical, theory-devoid coverage of many of the most critical topics covering real-life corporate use of derivatives, the book can be ...

Un río de fuego y agua

lecciones sobre mitología y cine

El cine es un arte de fuego, un foco, que no sólo no se apaga con el agua que se le arroja, sino que arde aún más. Se trata del #agua# de los mitos clásicos, lanzada sobre unas películas cuya ambientación no responde a la ...

Climate Change 2007

mitigation of climate change

The Climate Change 2007 volumes of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. This IPCC Working Group III volume provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art and worldwide overview of scientific knowledge ...

Energías e impacto ambiental

La contribución de la energía en el desarrollo de las sociedades ha sido una constante a lo largo de la historia. En este sentido, las páginas de este libro estudian el sector de la energía en el marco del medio ambiente desde una triple perspectiva ...

The cost of Democracy

party funding in modern british politics

Party funding has given rise to great controversy since 1997, and continues to do so. In recent years, scandal has followed scandal - from million pound donations, to the so-called 'loans for peerages' affair. The question is now the subject of official investigation by Sir Hayden ...

Biotecnologies and international Human Rights

This book follows and complements the previous volume "Biotechnology and International Law" (Hart, 2006) with its specific focus being human rights. It is the result of a collaborative effort which brings together a select group of experts from academia and from international organisations with the ...

EU food Law

protecting consumers and health in a common market

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the European Union law of food regulation. It details the way in which EU law impacts upon the production and sale of food throughout the Union. It examines the legal protection accorded to the free movement of food ...

Civil justice in the Age of Human Rights

The end of the last century witnessed two major events in the field of civil justice: the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) came into force and the Human Rights Act (HRA) gave effect to the European Convention on Human Rights. This volume assesses the effect of ...

A Foucauldian approach to international Law

descriptive thoughts for normative issues

Foucault's challenging view of power and knowledge as the basis for interpreting the international system forms the central themes of this book. As the application of international law expands and develops, this book considers how Foucault's approach may create a viable framework that ...

Using the MMP-2 in criminal justice and correctional settings

Provides an empirical approach to using the MMPI-2 in correctional settings. The MMPI-2 is the most widely used and thoroughly researched personality assessment instrument in criminal justice and correctional settings. Based on empirical research with prisoners and other offenders, this is the first work that ...

The language question in Europe and diverse societies

political, legal, and social perspectives

Recent developments in the European integration process have raised, amongst many other things, the issue of linguistic diversity. This is regarded by some as a stumbling block to the creation and sustainability of a European democratic polity and to the fair working of its legal ...

European competition Law

the interaction between competition Law and intelectuall property Law

This is the tenth in a series of volumes based on the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable debate, which examined the ...

El establecimiento permanente

análisis de sus definiciones y supuestos constitutivos en Derecho español

La constitución de una sociedad filial en otro Estado ha dejado, en gran medida, de ser una necesidad. En la actualidad, las empresas no consideran imprescindible disponer de entidad jurídica propia en otro Estado cuando abordan la planificación empresarial en él. Las empresas abren lugares ...

La conciliación judicial en el proceso laboral

El presente libro analiza la conciliación judicial en el ámbito del proceso laboral, como expresión relevante que es dentro de las instituciones que previene el ordenamiento jurídico para resolver las controversias jurídicas en clave de alternativa a la solución judicial. Y ello, en el marco ...

The foundations of restitution for wrongs

'Restitution for wrongs', or 'restitutionary damages', is the judicial award which compels the wrongdoer to give up to the victim the benefit obtained through the perpetration of the wrong, independently of any loss suffered by the victim. The establishment of a civil trial in Roman ...

Insider dealing and money laundering in the EU

Law and regulation

This work presents a comparative study of the provisions relating to insider dealing under the EC Insider Dealing Directive. The volume begins with a discussion of the rationale for regulating financial services in general and controlling insider dealing and money-laundering in particular. It then goes ...