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Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Readings in Futures Markets: Selected writings on futures markets: exploration in financial futures
Readings in Futures Markets: Selected writings on futures markets : basic research in commodity markets
Author: Readings in Futures Markets: Selected writings on futures markets : basic research in commodiity markets
Author: Selected Writings on Futures Markets
Author: Anne E. PeckPublisher:
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Category : Commodity exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Readings on Financial Institutions and Markets
Author: Peter S. RosePublisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
ISBN: 9780256145151
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Academia Next
Author: Bryan AlexanderPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421436426
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
An unusually multifaceted approach to American higher education that views institutions as complex organisms, Academia Next offers a fresh perspective on the emerging colleges and universities of today and tomorrow.
Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets
Author: Jaksa CvitanicPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262033206
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
An innovative textbook for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; accessible to students in financial mathematics, financial engineering and economics. Introduction to the Economics and Mathematics of Financial Markets fills the longstanding need for an accessible yet serious textbook treatment of financial economics. The book provides a rigorous overview of the subject, while its flexible presentation makes it suitable for use with different levels of undergraduate and graduate students. Each chapter presents mathematical models of financial problems at three different degrees of sophistication: single-period, multi-period, and continuous-time. The single-period and multi-period models require only basic calculus and an introductory probability/statistics course, while an advanced undergraduate course in probability is helpful in understanding the continuous-time models. In this way, the material is given complete coverage at different levels; the less advanced student can stop before the more sophisticated mathematics and still be able to grasp the general principles of financial economics. The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an introduction to basic securities and financial market organization, the concept of interest rates, the main mathematical models, and quantitative ways to measure risks and rewards. The second part treats option pricing and hedging; here and throughout the book, the authors emphasize the Martingale or probabilistic approach. Finally, the third part examines equilibrium models—a subject often neglected by other texts in financial mathematics, but included here because of the qualitative insight it offers into the behavior of market participants and pricing.
Trade Stocks and Commodities with the Insiders
Author: Larry WilliamsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118046250
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"The way that Big Money got to be Big Money was by also being the 'Smart Money', and so it is worth paying attention to how the Big Money traders behave. That's the essence of what Larry Williams has to teach us in this book. And it's not just what the Smart Money says or thinks, but how they behave in terms of their trading that we should pay attention to. Larry shows us how to listen to that message." —Tom McClellan, Editor of The McClellan Market Report "Finally, an insider's take on what really goes on behind the scenes in commodity trading. Larry writes his view of trading, as only he knows it, from his twenty-five years of experience." —James Altucher, author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund Successful trader Larry Williams reveals industry secrets that help investors and traders successfully invest and trade side-by-side with the largest commercial interests in the world. You'll be introduced to the COT (Commitment of Traders) report, the best resource for achieving trading success, learn exactly what the information it contains means, and plan for maximizing profits by acting on reported actions.
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
An Engine, Not a Camera
Author: Donald MacKenziePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262250047
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts of economic processes. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, MacKenzie says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts. More than that, the emergence of an authoritative theory of financial markets altered those markets fundamentally. For example, in 1970, there was almost no trading in financial derivatives such as "futures." By June of 2004, derivatives contracts totaling $273 trillion were outstanding worldwide. MacKenzie suggests that this growth could never have happened without the development of theories that gave derivatives legitimacy and explained their complexities. MacKenzie examines the role played by finance theory in the two most serious crises to hit the world's financial markets in recent years: the stock market crash of 1987 and the market turmoil that engulfed the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management in 1998. He also looks at finance theory that is somewhat beyond the mainstream—chaos theorist Benoit Mandelbrot's model of "wild" randomness. MacKenzie's pioneering work in the social studies of finance will interest anyone who wants to understand how America's financial markets have grown into their current form.