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 ...

The venture capital cycle

In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen years of ground- breaking research into the form ...

The psychology of the foreign exchange market

This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that ...

Stochastic implied volatility

a factor-based model

This book presents a factor-based model of the stochastic evolution of the implied volatility surface. The model allows for the integrated and consistent pricing and hedging, risk management, and trading of equity index derivatives as well as volatility derivatives. In the first part, the book ...

Hedges on hedges funds

how to successfully analyze and select an investment

ÍNDICE: CHAPTER 1: The Hedge Fund Alternative. CHAPTER 2: Cutting through the Black Box: Transparency and Disclosure. CHAPTER 3: The Operational Risk Crisis. CHAPTER 4: Best Practices in Hedge Fund Valuation. CHAPTER 5: Does Size Matter? CHAPTER 6: Directional Investing through Global Macros and Managed ...

Frenzy

bubbles, busts and how to come out ahead

Despite all the hype, the technology bubble of the 1990s was not driven by the Internet. It was driven by innate human forces that transcend the Internet, the 1990s, the twentieth century, and the United States. Extraordinary, incalculable opportunity frequently creates bubbles. In this situation ...

Investing in corporate bonds and credit risk

Investing in Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk is a valuable tool for any corporate bond investor. All the most recent developments and strategies in investment in corporate bonds are analyzed included with qualitative and quantitative approaches. A complete and up-to-date investment process is developed through ...

Mutual funds

risk and perfomance analysis for decision making

Alternative investments and the mismanagement of risk

Finance theory and asset pricing

Investment risk management

Recent market boom-busts have happened, and will continue to happen partly because apparently reputable institutions oversell risky or worthless investments. Following Enron, Worldcom, Equitable Life and other scandals it is apparent that a new investment methodology is required to protect investors. Rather then relying on ...

Técnicas y modelos para la gestión financiera de la empresa

Recent trends in valuation

from strategy to value

Conventional valuation techniques take little account of the unexpected outcomes and uncertainties of real life. Real options are one method of tackling these problems in order to give a realistic view in practice rather than simply in the theoretical world. This text contains interviews with ...

Dealmaking

using Monte Carlo and real options analysis

Real Options Analysis (ROA) and Monte Carlo Analysis (MCA) are two of today#s most significant tools in the valuation and negotiation of high- potential-value, high-ambiguity deals. Dealmaking Using Real Options and Monte Carlo Analysis outlines a new approach for creating flexible, practical valuation models ...

Financial market risk

measurement and analysis

This title uses advanced signal processing technology to measure and analyse risk phenomena of the financial markets. It explains how to scientifically measure, analyse and manage non-stationarity and long- term time dependence (long memory) of financial market returns. It studies, in particular, financial crises in ...

Incomplete information and heterogeneous beliefs in continuous-time finance

This book considers the impact of incomplete information and heterogeneous beliefs on investor's optimal portfolio and consumption behavior and equilibrium asset prices. After a brief review of the existing incomplete information literature, the effect of incomplete information on investors' exptected utility, risky asset prices ...

Asset pricing

discrete time approach

The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated since the early 1980s, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of this text is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical applications ...

Advances in portfolio construction and implementation

Advances in Portfolio Construction and Implementation offers practical guidance in addition to the theory, and is therefore ideal for Risk Mangers, Actuaries, Investment Managers, and Consultants worldwide. Issues are covered from a global perspective and all the recent developments of financial risk management are presented ...

Value-at-risk

theory and practice

Value-at-risk (VaR) is a measure of market risk that has been widely adopted since the mid-1990s for use on trading floors. This is the first advanced book published on VaR. It describes how to design, implement, and use scalable production VaR measures on actual trading ...

Investment

theories and analysis

This text provides an examination of the key macroeconomic theories which underpin fixed asset investment. It would make ideal reading for an intermediate level macroeconomics course or a module on fixed asset investment taking an applied macroeconomic perspective. Table of Contents Section I Introduction: introduction ...