Statistics for Business, Finance & Economics

More than just an investment dictionary, 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High analyzes investment vanes, from stock indexes to measures of housing affordably to leading economic reports. The reader can learn what these measures are, who is compiling them, where they are easily found,..

This book demonstrates how finance is affected by key political and social forces and cultural norms, and shows how they have determined the progression, development, destruction and renewal of financial life in Europe, Russia and the United States...

Written in a highly accessible style, this book lays a clear and structured foundation for the pricing of derivative securities based upon simple factor model related absence of arbitrage ideas...

Whether this reader is a newly promoted middle manager or executive, a marketing manager of a small company, an entrepreneur, or small business owner, they need to know how to measure results in dollars and cents. Accounting and Finance for the Nonfinancial Executive prepares them for managerial res..

Actuarial Models for Disability Insurance explores the actuarial structure of disability insurance, long-term care insurance, and critical illness coverage, including actuarial problems considered in the design and development of these insurances. Problems such as pricing and reserving are examined ..

Based on a colloquium held by SUERF jointly with the Austrian National Bank, this book addresses the issue of adapting to the demands of financial globalisation, a pressing preoccupation of bankers financial institutions and financial authorities...

This book shows decision makers how to build Bayesian models for the strategic calculation of their opponents, enabling decision makers to maximize their expected utility or minimize their expected loss. Many examples throughout illustrate the application of the ARA approach to a variety of games an..

This book develops a performative politics of the global event, providing a route into understanding and interpreting the possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life and holds implications for the classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed?...

The book will be devoted to quantitative models and computational techniques for risk management of equity-linked insurance. Although there have been research papers on the valuation of a great variety of investment guarantee products, they were primarily based on financial option pricing theory fro..

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language created by Microsoft that can be used to automate operations in Microsoft Excel. This textbook has been written for undergraduate students majoring in actuarial science and related areas who wish to learn the basic fundamentals and applic..

This book offers new ways of solving financial problems using techniques found in physics and mathematics. Through the problem of option pricing, it demonstrates how differential geometry, spectral decomposition, and supersymmetry can be used as new tools in finance. The author covers practical issu..

The Tokyo market has often been a difficult financial environment for the non-Japanese to understand. This volume, written for an international readership provides a study of the financial centre behind one of the world’s largest economies...