A behavioral approach to asset pricing

Behavioral finance is the study of how psychology affects financial decision making and financial markets. It is increasingly becoming the common way of understanding investor behavior and stock market activity. In this 2nd Edition, Hersh Shefrin examines the reigning assumptions of asset pricing theory and ...

Ecological models and data in R

Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to ...

El Club de la Hipotenusa

un paseo por la historia de las matemáticas a través de sus anécdotas más divertidas

Ilustraciones de Anthony Garner ¿Frecuentaba realmente Arquímedes la bañera? ¿Por qué los números fueron anteriores a las letras? ¿Quién se inventó el cero? ¿Por qué contar con los dedos supuso un gran avance para la humanidad? ¿Qué matemático griego murió de forma no precisamente plácida ...

Asset pricing for dynamic economies

This introduction to general equilibrium modelling takes an integrated approach to the analysis of macroeconomics and finance. It provides students, practitioners, and policymakers with an easily accessible set of tools that can be used to analyze a wide range of economic phenomena. ÍNDICE: List of ...

The numerati

Every day, we leave behind along trail of personal information simply by living in the modern world. We click Web pages, flip channels, drive through automatic toll booths, shop with credit cards, and make cell phone calls. Companies like Yahoo! and Google are harvesting an ...

Asymptotic analysis of Random Walks

heavy-tailed distributions

This book focuses on the asymptotic behaviour of the probabilities of large deviations of the trajectories of random walks with 'heavy- tailed' (in particular, regularly varying, sub- and semiexponential) jump distributions. Large deviation probabilities are of great interest in numerous applied areas, typical examples being ...

Insights into Game Theory

an alternative mathematical experience

Few branches of mathematics have been more influential in the social sciences than game theory. In recent years, it has become an essential tool for all social scientists studying the strategic behaviour of competing individuals, firms and countries. However, the mathematical complexity of game theory ...

Multifractal volatility

theory, forecasting, and pricing

Calvet and Fisher present a powerful, new technique for volatility forecasting that draws on insights from the use of multifractals in the natural sciences and mathematics and provides a unified treatment of the use of multifractal techniques in finance. A large existing literature (e.g ...

Manual de combinatoria

El objetivo principal de este manual es intentar familiarizar al lector con la s técnicas de conteo, diagramas de árbol y estrategias de resolución de proble mas, aprovechando todo ello para introducir los conceptosbásicos de la Combina toria y mostrar muchas de sus aplicaciones INDICE ...

Markov processes for stochastic modeling

Markov processes are used to model systems with limited memory. They are used in many areas including communications systems, transportation networks, image segmentation and analysis, biological systems and DNA sequence analysis, random atomic motion and diffusion in physics, social mobility, population studies, epidemiology, animal and ...

Mathematics and Politics

strategy, voting, power and proof

This book teaches humanities majors the accessibility and beauty of discrete and deductive mathematics. It assumes no prior knowledge of either college-level mathematics or political science, and could be offered at the freshman or sophomore level. The book devotes one chapter each to a model ...

Ecuaciones diferenciales y problemas con valores en la frontera: cómputo y modelado

Libro de texto que comprende una amplia variedad de temas de la teoría básica, así como aplicaciones actuales e interesantes de las ecuaciones diferenciales. Presenta de manera equilibrada la teoría, aplicaciones, técnicas de solución y métodos numéricos con el uso de software. Se incluye gran ...

Money, interest, and policy

dynamic general equilibrium in a non-ricardian world

An important recent advancement in macroeconomics is the development of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) macromodels. The use of DSGE models to study monetary policy, however, has led to paradoxical and puzzling results on a number of central monetary issues including price determinancy and liquidity ...

Cálculo diferencial

El propósito del libro es proporcionar diferentes caracterizaciones a los conceptos más importantes que comprende un curso de Cálculo Diferencial, como son el de derivada, límite, función, etc., que se considera pueden mejorar el entendimiento de los estudiantes. Se plantea el concepto de función desde ...

Quantitative fund management

Eds. M.A.H. Dempster, Gautam Mitra, Georg Pflug. This is the first collection that covers this field at the dynamic strategic and one-period tactical levels. Addressing the imbalance between research and practice, "Introduction to Quantitative Fund Management" presents leading-edge theory and methods, along with ...

La práctica del análisis de correspondencias

La práctica del análisis de correspondencias es el fruto de más de 30 años de investigación del autor, Michael Greenacre (catedrático en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), en ciencias sociales y ambientales. El análisis de correspondencias es un método estadístico que permite visualizar e interpretar ...

MATLAB demystified

Need to Learn MATLAB? Problem SOLVED! Get started using MATLAB right away with help from this hands-on guide. MATLAB Demystified offers an effective and enlightening method for learning how to get the most out this powerful computational mathematics tool. Using an easy-to-follow format, this book ...

Introducción al diseño y análisis de algoritmos

un enfoque estratégico

EL diseño de redes de comunicación, el layout VLSI y el análisis de secuencias de DNA son problemas importantes que no pueden resolverse con algoritmos inocentes o simples. Por tal motivo, para el expertos en computación, es crucial conocer ampliamente el diseño y análisis de ...

Cálculo integral

(una y varias variables): 70 problemas útiles

Managerial decision modeling