Modeling aggregate behavior and fluctuations in economics

stochastic views of interacting agents

This book has two components: stochastic dynamics and stochastic random combinatorial analysis. The first discusses evolving patterns of interactions of a large but finite number of agents of several types. Changes of agent types or their choices or decisions over time are formulated as jump ...

Guía interactiva de cálculo para la economía y la empresa con Derive

INDECE: 1. Priperos pasos con Derive5. 2. Funciones gráficas. límites y continuidad. 3. Derivabilidad de funciones reales de variable real. 4. Funciones reales de varias variables. 5. Introducción a la optimización de funciones reales de varias variables. 7. Ejercicios generales de repaso. Bibliografía.

Investigación operativa

modelos determinísticos y estocásticos

Esta obra nos introduce en el conocimiento de los modelos deterministas y estocásticos de la Investigación Operativa cuyos orígenes se encuentran en los primeros intentos de aplicar el método científico a problemas de planificación empresarial en los comienzos del siglo pasado. Libro adecuado para profesionales ...

Financial markets and martingales

observations on science and speculation

Starting with games of chance, from which probability theory was born, Nicolas Bouleau explains how the financial markets operate, and demonstrates how the application of mathematics has turned finance into a high-tech business, as well as a formidable and efficient tool. The human side of ...

Option theory with stochastic analysis

an introduction to mathematical finance

The objective of this textbook is to provide a very basic and accessible introduction to option pricing, invoking only a minimum of stochastic analysis. Although short, it covers the theory essential to the statistical modeling of stocks, pricing of derivatives (general contingent claims) with martingale ...

Copula methods in finance

The evaluation and risk measurement of portfolios of complex non-linear positions and non-normal risk factors has become a major nightmare for people working in the structured finance business. Dealing with "fat tails" and "smile effects", as well as the typical asymmetric shape of default risk ...

The Mathematics of Financial Modeling and Investment Management

The Mathematics of Financial Modeling & Investment Management covers a wide range of technical topics in mathematics and finance#enabling the investment management practitioner, researcher, or student to fully understand the process of financial decision-making and its economic foundations. This comprehensive resource will introduce you to ...

CreditRisk+ in the banking industry

CreditRisk+ is an important and widely implemented default-mode model of portfolio credit risk, based on a methodology borrowed from actuarial mathematics. This book gives an account of the status quo as well as of new and recent developments of the credit risk model CreditRisk+, which ...

Managing credit risk in corporate bond portfolios

a practitioner's guide

In Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios: A Practitioner#s Guide, investment expert Srichander Ramaswamy skillfully explains how you can begin to measure and manage the relative credit risk of a co rporate bond portfolio against its benchmark. By combining risk management concepts with ...

Interest rate modelling

This book provides the first summary and critical appraisal of the thinking that currently informs the management of business relationships, from the perspectives of both the buyer and supplier. The authors argue that these approaches are one-dimensional and instead recommend a more holistic approach based ...

Arbitrage theory in continuous time

This accessible introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of finance concentrates on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives, including stochastic optimal control theory, and Merton's fund separation theory. It includes a solved example for every new technique presented, numerous exercises, and ...

One shot-one kill trading

John Netto, a former U.S. Marine, designed his "One Shot'One Kill" trading methodology to leverage the patience, discipline, and execution skills he learned in the military with the technical skills he has mastered in the marketplace. In One Shot-One Kill Trading, Netto explains ...

Los mercados financieros y sus matemáticas

una guía teórica y práctica para comprender las matemáticas de los mercados

ÍNDICE. Introducción. . CAPÍTULO 1. Fundamentos de las matemáticas de los mercados financieros. 1. Definiciones iniciales. 2. Principio de sustitución o proyección financiera. . 3. Leyes financieras. 4. Magnitudes derivadas de las leyes financieras. 4.1. Factores, réditos y tantos en las leyes de capitalización. 4.2 ...

Mathematical techniques in finance

tools for incomplete markets

Modern finance overlaps with many fields of mathematics, and for students this can represent considerable strain. Mathematical Techniques in Finance is an ideal textbook for Masters finance courses with a significant quantitative element while also being suitable for finance Ph.D. students. Developed for the ...

Pricing in (in)complete markets

structural analysis and applications

In this book, the authors investigate structural aspects of no arbitrage pricing of contingent claims and applications of the general pricing theory in the context of incomplete markets. A quasi-closed form pricing equation in terms of artificial probabilities is derived for arbitrary payoff structures. Moreover ...

Credit risk pricing models

theory and practice

The markets dealing with financial products related to credit risk have been booming over the last years. This has encouraged practitioners and academics at the same time to consider and develop sophisticated models for credit risk pricing. This book gives a deep insight into the ...

A game theory analysis of options

corporate finance and financial intermediation in continuous time

This book shows how to combine game theory and option pricing in order to analyze dynamic multiperson decision problems in continuous time and under uncertainty. The basic intuition of the method is to separate the problem of the valuation of payoffs from the analysis of ...

Financial modelling with jump processes

During the last decade, financial models based on jump processes have acquired increasing popularity in risk management and option pricing. Much has been published on the subject, but the technical nature of most papers makes them difficult for nonspecialists to understand, and the mathematical tools ...

Risk transfer

derivatives in theory and practice

INDICE: PART ONE: The Economics of Risk Transfer. CHAPTER 1: The Determinants of Financial Innovation. CHAPTER 2: Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. CHAPTER 3: Methods of Controlling Risk and Uncertainty. CHAPTER 4: Risk Transfer and Contracting Structures. CHAPTER 5: The Evolution of Derivatives Activity. CHAPTER 6 ...

Recent developments on exchange rates

This collection examines recent developments in exchange rate analysis. In the first part, two exchange rate models are proposed: a model which combines heterogeneous agents and transaction costs, and a dynamic general-equilibrium two-country sticky-price model. The second part of the book deals with econometric aspects ...