Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics

ISBN-13: 9781441977007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 910 str.

Opis

Complex Systems in Finance and Econometrics is an authoritative reference to the basic tools and concepts of complexity and systems theory as applied to an understanding of complex, financial-based business and social systems. Fractals, nonlinear time series modeling, cellular automata, game theory, network theory and statistical physics are among the essential tools and techniques for predicting, monitoring, evaluating, managing, and decision-making in a wide range of fields from health care, poverty alleviation, and energy and the environment, to manufacturing and quality assurance, model building, organizational learning. and macro and microeconomics. Sixty of the world's leading experts present 47 articles for an audience of advanced undergraduate and graduate students, professors, and professionals in all of these fields.

Spis treści

47 entries drawn from three sections of the Encyclopedia of Complexity.- Agent Based Modeling and Simulation.- Finance and Econometrics.- System Dynamics.

O autorze

Robert A. Meyers obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and has more than 17 patents, 50 technical papers and 12 books to his name. As Editor-in-Chief he conceived and edited several ambitious multivolume reference works.