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“Mathematical analysis of evolutionary dynamics in financial markets has made significant strides in the last 20 years. The chapters in this Handbook present some of the most important contributions to this expanding literature.” –Andrei ShleiferHarvard University “The research frontier of finance is moving in an [...]
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Ken Binmore is one of our deepest thinkers on the foundations of economics and game theory. Here he gives us his personal take on standard decision theory and his own extension of the theory to the case in which decision makers cannot assign unambiguous probabilities [...]
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“A Companion to Economic Forecasting offers an insightful and authoritative overview of the diverse issues, methods, and applications falling under the broad umbrella of economic and financial forecasting. It belongs on every practitioner’s bookshelf, and on every student’s reading list.” Francis X. Diebold, University of [...]
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Research on forecasting methods has made important progress over recent years and these developments are brought together in the Handbook of Economic Forecasting. The handbook covers developments in how forecasts are constructed based on multivariate time-series models, dynamic factor models, nonlinear models and combination methods. The handbook also includes chapters on [...]
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An instructor should consider this book for class use, because it gives a direct approach to the decision-making process, uncertainty, and risk estimation and how to interpret such knowledge in assessing and determining the values of potential alternatives, which are not always explicitly expressed by [...]
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Roman Slowinski (Poznan University of Technology, Editor of EJOR): “The Editors are to be congratulated for an excellent work. They attracted the most representative authors and contributors for contemporary MDCA. I have never seen such a complete and up-to-date book on MCDA. It will be [...]
This book presents current knowledge on aggregate economic fluctuations — business cycles. The book begins with an empirical definition of the `business cycle’. After outlining the historical development and key features of the current theories of the business cycle, these theories are evaluated on the basis of their ability [...]
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“In The Well-Timed Strategy, Navarro provides a useful primer on business cycle risks and opportunities. Recognizing that business success depends most of all on human capital, he makes the crucial observation that the trough of a recession is the best time to find good people and [...]
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Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, Quantitative Methods in Finance forms part one of the Market Risk Analysis four volume set. Starting from the basics, this book helps readers to take the first step towards becoming a properly qualified financial risk manager [...]
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“This well-written book, while important to library collections, will probably best be used as supplemental readings for most courses in finance or financial economics….As the subject penetrates further into the liberal arts colleges, the Houthakker/Williamson approach may be more widely used. An excellent supplemental work for upper-division [...]
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