Statistics for Business, Finance & Economics

A one-stop shop for actuaries and risk managers, this handbook covers general solvency and risk management topics as well issues pertaining to the European Solvency II project. It focuses on the valuation of assets and liabilities, the calculation of capital requirement, and the calculation of the s..

Heads or Tails answers the central question which has arisen post-global financial crisis: what changes should financial institutions undergo in order to be able to provide reliable protection against systemic and extreme risks? This book describes practical solutions for building a robust risk mana..

This book presents the latest research in the areas of market microstructure and high-frequency finance along with new econometric methods to address critical practical issues in these areas of research. It was originally published as a special issue of European Journal of Finance...

Based on the author’s 30 years’ experience as investor and advisor, this book includes real-life examples of how and why investors make mistakes and even fail. The focus is on attracting and convincing investors to invest in innovative businesses. The book explains who investors are (VC funds and bu..

Analyzes the newly available statistical evidence on income distribution in the former Soviet Union both by social group and by republic, and considers the significance of inequalities as a factor contributing to the demise of the Communist regime...

Banking and finance is one of the most successful and rapidly expanding sectors in the world economy. From the 1960s this whole area of employment has undergone profound changes. The banks diversified, adopted new corporate strategies, introduced new technologies and faced new and intense competitio..

Banking and finance is one of the most successful and rapidly expanding sectors in the world economy. From the 1960s this whole area of employment has undergone profound changes. The banks diversified, adopted new corporate strategies, introduced new technologies and faced new and intense competitio..

_x000D_ This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables, the Unidroit Convention on Int..

Introduction to Spatial Econometrics presents a variety of regression methods for analyzing spatial data samples that violate the traditional assumption of independence between observations. It explores a range of alternative topics, including maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation, various type..

_x005F_x000D_ This book introduces the use of statistical concepts and methods to model and analyze financial data, including the market model, the single-index model, and factor models. It contains detailed numerical examples using genuine financial data along with numerous exercises including both..

Increasingly investors have quick and easy access to more information than ever. Author Kurt Peray guides investors towards achieving their goals with a investment approach based on the principle of fuzzy logic. The author's detailed analysis of the new approaches and techniques for Risk Control and..

This and the following volume chart the history of financial institutions in England in the mid-late nineteenth century as well as examining the periods of boom and bust, their causes and effects. Using hitherto unpublished sources from the International Financial Society this book provides an unriv..