Author : Michael Magill
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262632546
Theory of incompl. markets/M. Magill, M. Quinzii. - V.1.
Author : Georges Dionne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0792392043
Economic and financial research on insurance markets has undergone dramatic growth since its infancy in the early 1960s. Our main objective in compiling this volume was to achieve a wider dissemination of key papers in this literature. Their significance is highlighted in the introduction, which surveys major areas in insurance economics. While it was not possible to provide comprehensive coverage of insurance economics in this book, these readings provide an essential foundation to those who desire to conduct research and teach in the field. In particular, we hope that this compilation and our introduction will be useful to graduate students and to researchers in economics, finance, and insurance. Our criteria for selecting articles included significance, representativeness, pedagogical value, and our desire to include theoretical and empirical work. While the focus of the applied papers is on property-liability insurance, they illustrate issues, concepts, and methods that are applicable in many areas of insurance. The S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School made this book possible by financing publication costs. We are grateful for this assistance and to J. David Cummins, Executive Director of the Foundation, for his efforts and helpful advice on the contents. We also wish to thank all of the authors and editors who provided permission to reprint articles and our respective institutions for technical and financial support.
Author : Bernard Salanie
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262264625
Bernard Salanié studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures. In this book Bernard Salanié studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to remedy these so-called market failures. He includes discussions of theories of collective decision making, as well as elementary models of public economics and industrial organization. Although public economics is traditionally defined as the positive and normative study of government action over the economy, Salanié confines himself to microeconomic aspects of welfare economics; he considers taxation and the effects of public spending only as potential remedies for market failures. He concludes with a discussion of the theory of general equilibrium in incomplete markets.
Author : Aleš Černý
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Derivative securities
ISBN : 9788122417159
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 Highly Acclaimed Master Of Science In Finance Program At Imperial College London, It Offers A Carefully Crafted Blend Of Numerical Applications And Theoretical Grounding In Economics, Finance, And Mathematics.In The Best Engineering Tradition, Ale Cerný Mixes Tools From Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Numerical Mathematics, And Programming To Analyze In An Accessible Way Some Of The Most Intriguing Problems In Financial Economics. Eighty Figures, Over 70 Worked Examples, 25 Simple Ready-To-Run Computer Programs, And Several Spreadsheets Further Enhance The Learning Experience. Each Chapter Is Followed By A Number Of Classroom-Tested Exercises With Solutions Available On The Book'S Web Site.Applied Mathematics Is A Craft That Requires Practice This Textbook Provides Plenty Of Opportunities To Practice It And Teaches Cutting-Edge Finance Into The Bargain. Asset Pricing Is A Common Theme Throughout The Book; And Readers Can Follow The Development From Discrete One-Period Models To Continuous Time Stochastic Processes. This Textbook Sets Itself Apart By The Comprehensive Treatment Of Pricing And Risk Measurement In Incomplete Markets, An Area Of Current Research That Represents The Future In Risk Management And Investment Performance Evaluation.This Special Low-Priced Edition Is For Sale In India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan And Sri Lanka Only.
Author : Lars Ljungqvist
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262122740
A significant new edition of a text that offers both tools and sample applications; extensive revisions and seven new chapters improve and expand upon the original treatment.
Author : Leonard C. MacLean
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814417351
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making Under Uncertainty. This includes subsections on Arbitrage, Utility Theory, Risk Aversion and Static Portfolio Theory, and Stochastic Dominance. Part II is concerned with Dynamic Modeling that is the transition for static decision making to multiperiod decision making. The analysis starts with Risk Measures and then discusses Dynamic Portfolio Theory, Tactical Asset Allocation and Asset-Liability Management Using Utility and Goal Based Consumption-Investment Decision Models.A comprehensive set of problems both computational and review and mind expanding with many unsolved problems are in an accompanying problems book. The handbook plus the book of problems form a very strong set of materials for PhD and Masters courses both as the main or as supplementary text in finance theory, financial decision making and portfolio theory. For researchers, it is a valuable resource being an up to date treatment of topics in the classic books on these topics by Johnathan Ingersoll in 1988, and William Ziemba and Raymond Vickson in 1975 (updated 2 nd edition published in 2006).
Author : Nathaniel O. Keohane
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610916077
"A clear grasp of economics is essential to understanding why environmental problems arise and how we can address them. ... Now thoroughly revised with updated information on current environmental policy and real-world examples of market-based instruments .... The authors provide a concise yet thorough introduction to the economic theory of environmental policy and natural resource management. They begin with an overview of environmental economics before exploring topics including cost-benefit analysis, market failures and successes, and economic growth and sustainability. Readers of the first edition will notice new analysis of cost estimation as well as specific market instruments, including municipal water pricing and waste disposal. Particular attention is paid to behavioral economics and cap-and-trade programs for carbon."--Publisher's web site.
Author : John Eatwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1989-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349202150
This is an extract from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This volume concentrates on the topic of allocation information and markets.
Author : Tomas Björk
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191610291
The third edition of this popular introduction to the classical underpinnings of the mathematics behind finance continues to combine sound mathematical principles with economic applications. Concentrating on the probabilistic theory of continuous arbitrage pricing of financial derivatives, including stochastic optimal control theory and Merton's fund separation theory, the book is designed for graduate students and combines necessary mathematical background with a solid economic focus. It includes a solved example for every new technique presented, contains numerous exercises, and suggests further reading in each chapter. In this substantially extended new edition Bjork has added separate and complete chapters on the martingale approach to optimal investment problems, optimal stopping theory with applications to American options, and positive interest models and their connection to potential theory and stochastic discount factors. More advanced areas of study are clearly marked to help students and teachers use the book as it suits their needs.
Author : Paul Milgrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139449168
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new applications. It is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided the creation of the new spectrum auction designs. Aimed at graduate students and professionals in economics, the book gives the most up-to-date treatments of both traditional theories of 'optimal auctions' and newer theories of multi-unit auctions and package auctions, and shows by example how these theories are used. The analysis explores the limitations of prominent older designs, such as the Vickrey auction design, and evaluates the practical responses to those limitations. It explores the tension between the traditional theory of auctions with a fixed set of bidders, in which the seller seeks to squeeze as much revenue as possible from the fixed set, and the theory of auctions with endogenous entry, in which bidder profits must be respected to encourage participation.
