Taking technical risks

how innovators, executives and investors manage high-tech risks

How do technology innovators, business executives and venture capitalists manage the technical elements of business risk when developing and launching new products? Overcoming technical risks requires crossing the so-called valley of death - the gap between demonstrating the soundness of a technical concept in a controlled ...

Real options and investment under uncertainty

classical readings and recent contributions

The study of investment under uncertainty was stagnant for several decades, until recent developments in real options provided the tools to revitalize the field. The techniques and insights derived from option pricing can now be used to quantify the elusive elements of managerial operating flexibility ...

Turbulencias financieras y riesgos de mercado

Turbulencias financieras y riesgos de mercado

Aspectos legales de las finanzas corporativas

INDICE:Mercados, intermediarios, instrumentos y reguladores financieros -- Conceptos básicos de finanzas corporativas -- El gobierno de la firma -- El financiamiento bancario y las garantías de crédito -- Financiamiento del comercio exterior -- Securitización, leasing y project finance -- Aspectos legales regulatorios del mercado de capitales -- Financiamiento mediante la emisión ...

Trading with crowd psychology

Rich by choice

seven steps to financial success

Value investing

from Graham to buffett and beyond

Do you want to make money or would you rather fool around?

Regulating financial services and markets in the 21st century

Weather risk management

market, products and applications

The definitive guide to the rapidly expanding weather risk management market. The US Department of Commerce estimates that nearly 10% of the US's $9 trillion GDP is exposed to weather risk. All over the world providers and end users are recognising this fact and ...

Venture capital

the definitive guide for entrepeneurs, investors, and practitioners

PART I: DOING YOUR HOMEWORK: PREPARING FOR THE VENTURE CAPITALISTS. The Venture Capital Revolution. Venture Capital FAQ: Is the Game Right for You? The Market Risk. The People Risk#Part I: Management Teams and Boards. The People Risk#Part II: Strategic Alliances. The Master of ...

La sociedad de inversión mobiliaria de capital variable

(SIMCAV)

Esta obra constituye el primer trabajo monográfico sobre la SIMCAV y en ella se analiza con detenimiento esta novedosa materia, examinando de forma sistemática el régimen jurídico de dicha Institución, tratando además de explicar el espectacular desarrollo que ha experimentado últimamente.

Practical quantitative investment management with derivatives

The book is divided into three sections plus detailed appendices and glossary and accompanying CD-ROM. The first section provides a description of the investment management process providing a context for quantitative techniques. Section 2 addresses different quantitative techniques as applied to investment management. Each chapter ...

The stock market course

This volume makes investing in the stock market a reality by walking investors through the actual process of trading. George Fontanills begins by familiarizing readers with the field of investment - its history, mechanics and rules - then launches them into the specifics of actually using this ...

Famous first bubbles

the fundamentals of the early manias

The jargon of economics and finance contains numerous colorful terms for market-asset prices at odds with any reasonable economic explanation. Examples include "bubble," "tulipmania," "chain letter," "Ponzi scheme," "panic," "crash," "herding," and "irrational exuberance." Although such a term suggests that an event is inexplicably crowd-driven ...

When genius failed

the rise and fall of long-term capital management

John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a partner at Salomon Brothers, establishing the best--and the brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner, he knitted together a group of Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who rewarded him ...

Real options and option-embedded securities

This text presents a comprehensive treatment of the challenging field of option pricing and offers a unified approach to the use of options in solving problems in corporate finance.

Bond markets securities

Investors need to be fully conversant with the differences in the way that bonds are structured, valued and traded. Bond Market Securities contains a wide range of methodologies that will help the reader to gain a good understanding of fixed income securities and some of ...

Gestión de activos financieros de renta fija

Los recientes descensos de los tipos de interés que han caracterizado el comienzo del siglo XXI con el objetivo de evitar la amenaza de la recesión económica, unido a las incertidumbres de los mercados de valores tradicionales provocadas por dicho motivo, han tenido como resultado ...