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Project Finance in Theory and Practice
Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Project Finance in Theory and Practice: Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects, Third Edition presents a set of topics that can be applied to any project financing task. It includes essential, core material for project finance, offering new insights about Sharia-compliant...
Behavioral Finance
Where Do Investors' Biases Come From?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This unique volume presents new original research exploring factors that lead to investors behavioral biases. It discusses how features such as professionalism, sophistication, gender, media, and culture influence investors' decision-making in general, and in particular, how they generate (or limit)...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book presents innovations in the mathematical foundations of financial analysis and numerical methods for finance and applications to the modeling of risk. The topics selected include measures of risk, credit contagion, insider trading, information in finance, stochastic control and its applications...
by Paul Wilmott
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Paul Wilmott writes,
"Quantitative finance is the most fascinating and rewarding real-world application of mathematics. It is fascinating because of the speed at which the subject develops, the new products and the new models which we have to understand. And it is rewarding because anyone...
Inefficient Markets
An Introduction to Behavioural Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
The efficient markets hypothesis has been the central proposition in finance for nearly thirty years. It states that securities prices in financial markets must equal fundamental values, either because all investors are rational or because arbitrage eliminates pricing anomalies. This book describes...
La fabrique de la finance
Pour une approche interdisciplinaire
Language: French
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Mobilisant une variété de cadres théoriques issus des sciences sociales, les auteurs, membres de l'Association des Études Sociales de la Finance, font le point sur quinze années de recherches interdisciplinaires. Ils proposent une perspective critique des représentations portées par le paradigme...
The Volatility Surface
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Praise for The Volatility Surface
"I'm thrilled by the appearance of Jim Gatheral's new book The Volatility Surface. The literature on stochastic volatility is vast, but difficult to penetrate and use. Gatheral's book, by contrast, is accessible and practical. It successfully charts a...
by Paul Wilmott
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, Second Edition is an accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students. Adapted from the comprehensive, even epic, works Derivatives and Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition, it includes...
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics
Theory, History, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics provides a complete theoretical, historical, and policy-focused account of the international financial system that covers all of the standard topics, such as foreign exchange markets, balance of payments accounting, macroeconomic policy in an open...
by Abbas Mirakhor, Azura Othman, Syed Othman Alhabshi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book offers an alternative framework for macroeconomic policy in Malaysia, derived from the universal principles of social justice espoused in the objectives of the Shariah. It attempts to holistically analyze issues related to public finance, which has been criticized for lack of transparency...
Finance, Society and Sustainability
How to Make the Financial System Work for the Economy, People and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book is a critical analysis of the impact of the financial system on the economy, society and the natural environment. It cuts through the noise to looks at its purpose, its activities, and what it does in practice.
Unlike other books that cover the last financial crisis and the risk of another...
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Lifting the Curtain on Lending Practices & the Australian Financial Services Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Australians who want to apply for a mortgage or obtain a commercial loan have more to worry about than paperwork, they must also contend with predatory lending practices. While the calls for a royal commission to investigate these practices continue to get louder, for now, those seeking private funding...
Handbook of Asian Finance
REITs, Trading, and Fund Performance, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Participants in Asian financial markets have witnessed the unprecedented growth and sophistication of their investments since the 1997 crisis. Handbook of Asian Finance: REITs, Trading, and Fund Performance analyzes the forces behind these growth rates. Insights into banking, fund performance, and...
by Matheus R Grasselli, Lane P Hughston
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This outstanding collection of articles includes papers presented at the Fields Institute, Toronto, as part of the Thematic Program in Quantitative Finance that took place in the first six months of the year 2010. The scope of the volume in very broad, including papers on foundational issues in mathematical...