The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation. This graduate-level textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA students, and industry professionals interested in the econometrics of financial modeling. The book covers the entire spectrum of empirical finance, including: the predictability of asset returns, tests of the Random Walk...
The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinel...
The Derivatives Sourcebook is a complete bibliography of the derivatives literature research citing the pioneering work of Fischer Black, RobertMerton, and Myron Scholes with over 1500 research articles categorized and indexed since 1980. It includes an introduction by the authors reviewing recent developments in the field since the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded in 1997 to Robert Merton and Myron Scholes for their research on financial derivatives and options pricing theory. The complete Nobel Lectures by Robert Merton and Myron Scholes are also included.
The Derivatives Sourcebook is a complete bibliography of the derivatives literature research citing the pioneering work of Fischer Black, RobertMerton...
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the federal government has pursued significant regulatory reforms, including proposals to measure and monitor systemic risk. However, there is much debate about how this might be accomplished quantitatively and objectively-or whether this is even possible. A key issue is determining the appropriate trade-offs between risk and reward from a policy and social welfare perspective given the potential negative impact of crises. One of the first books to address the challenges of measuring statistical risk from a system-wide persepective,...
In the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the federal government has pursued significant regulatory reforms, including proposals to measure and...
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and inefficient, as behavioral economists believe. The debate is one of the biggest in eco
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on wh...