Financial engineering with finite elements

The pricing of derivative instruments has always been a highly complex and time-consuming activity. Advances in technology, however, have enabled much quicker and more accurate pricing through mathematical rather than analytical models. In this book, the author bridges the divide between finance and mathematics by ...

Practical financial modelling

a guide to current practice

This book is for all financial professionals whose work, to a greater or lesser degree, involves complex spreadsheets and financial models. This includes investment bankers, commercial banks, accountancy firms, property firms, public sector including local government and healthcare, PFI/PPP enterprises, financial managers and financially ...

The econometrics of macroeconomic modelling

Macroeconometric models, in many ways the flagships of the economist's profession in the 1960s, came under increasing attack from both theoretical economist and practitioners in the late 1970s. Critics referred to their lack of microeconomic theoretical foundations, ad hoc models of expectations, lack of ...

Commodities and commodity dirivatives

modeling and pricing for agriculturals, metals and energy

The last few years have been a watershed for the commodities, cash and derivatives industry. New regulations and products have led to an explosion in the commodities markets, creating a new asset class for investors that includes hedge funds as well as University endowments, and ...

Analysis of economic data

Analysis of Economic Data teaches methods of data analysis to students whose primary interest is not in econometrics, statistics or mathematics. It shows students how to apply econometric techniques in the context of real-world empirical problems. It adopts a largely non- mathematical approach relying on ...

How economists model the world into numbers

Economics is dominated by model building, therefore a comprehension of how such models work is vital to understanding the discipline. This book provides a critical analysis of the economist's favorite tool, and as such will be an enlightening read for some, and an intriguing ...

Monte Carlo simulation and finance

Monte Carlo methods have been used for decades in physics, engineering, statistics, and other fields. Monte Carlo Simulation and Finance explains the nuts and bolts of this essential technique used to value derivatives and other securities. Author and educator Don McLeish examines this fundamental process ...

Optimization in economics and finance

some advances in non-linear, dynamic, multi-criteria and stochastic models

Many optimization questions arise in economics and finance; an important example of this is the society's choice of the optimum state of the economy (the social choice problem). Optimization in Economics and Finance extends and improves the usual optimization techniques, in a form that ...

Modelling in ecological economics

This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues. Following a detailed introduction, the authors investigate various modelling techniques including: # evolutionary modelling # input#output modelling # neo-Austrian ...

Microeconometrics

methods and applications

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using regression methods for cross section and panel data. The book is oriented to the practitioner. A basic understanding of the ...

Applied research in environmental economics

Sustainable development, climate policy, and biodiversity conservation are examples of issues on the current political agenda in many countries. These themes are also subject to economic research, and economic insights are increasingly finding their way into the design of environmental policy. Still, the reception of ...

Optimal control and dynamic games

applications in finance, management science and economics

Optimal Control and Dynamic Games has been edited to honor the outstanding contributions of Professor Suresh Sethi in the fields of Applied Optimal Control. Professor Sethi is internationally one of the foremost experts in this field. He is, among others, co-author of the popular textbook ...

New introduction to multiple time series analysis

This reference work and graduate level textbook considers a wide range of models and methods for analyzing and forecasting multiple time series. The models covered include vector autoregressive, cointegrated, vector autoregressive moving average, multivariate ARCH and periodic processes as well as dynamic simultaneous equations and ...

Analysis of financial time series

Gain the statistical tools and techniques you need to understand today's financial markets with the Second Edition of this critically acclaimed book. You'll find a comprehensive and systematic introduction to financial econometric models and their applications in modeling and predicting financial time series ...

Quantitative finance for physicists

an introduction

With more and more physicists and physics students exploring the possibility of utilizing their skills in the finance industry, this much-needed book quickly introduces you to financial principles and methods. This book provides a short, straightforward introduction to those who already have the background in ...

Dynamic systems

modeling, analysis and simulation

Welcome to the exciting and important field of dynamic systems! Mastering the theory of dynamic systems enables you to analyse and design dynamic systems of various kinds, as control systems and signal processing systems. This book gives a well written and easily understandable introduction to ...

Periodic time series models

This book considers periodic time series models for seasonal data, characterized by parameters that differ across the seasons, and focuses on their usefulness for out-of-sample forecasting. Providing an up-to- date survey of the recent developments in periodic time series, the book presents a large number ...

Optimization methods for a stakeholder society

a revolution in economic thinking by multi-objective optimization

Ingeniería de sistemas sociales

diseño, modelado y programación de modelos basados en agentes

Introduction to machine learning