Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Market Insanity
A Brief Guide to Diagnosing the Madness in the Stock Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Market Insanity: A Brief Guide to Diagnosing the Madness in the Stock Market is an engaging and accessible primer which applies modern behavioral finance to equity markets. It helps readers understand how logical investment decisions can be betrayed by what Taillard calls "the insanity,"...
Credit Engineering for Bankers
A Practical Guide for Bank Lending
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
More efficient credit portfolio engineering can increase the decision-making power of bankers and boost the market value of their banks. By implementing robust risk management procedures, bankers can develop comprehensive views of obligors by integrating fundamental and market data into a portfolio...
by Ali Hirsa, Salih N. Neftci
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives is a popular, intuitive text that eases the transition between basic summaries of financial engineering to more advanced treatments using stochastic calculus. Requiring only a basic knowledge of calculus and probability, it takes readers...
Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk
Theory and Application of Migration Matrices
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital...
by Robert L. Kissell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Science of Algorithmic Trading and Portfolio Management, with its emphasis on algorithmic trading processes and current trading models, sits apart from others of its kind. Robert Kissell, the first author to discuss algorithmic trading across the various asset classes, provides key insights into...
Stress Testing and Risk Integration in Banks
A Statistical Framework and Practical Software Guide (in Matlab and R)
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Stress Testing and Risk Integration in Banks provides a comprehensive view of the risk management activity by means of the stress testing process. An introduction to multivariate time series modeling paves the way to scenario analysis in order to assess a bank resilience against adverse macroeconomic...
Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models
Lessons Learned from the Crisis and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered. This single volume provides a guide to lessons learned for practitioners and a reference for academics. Including reviews...
by Robert Clews
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This overview of project finance for the oil and gas industry covers financial markets, sources and providers of finance, financial structures, and capital raising processes. About US$300 billion of project finance debt is raised annually across several capital intensive sectors—including oil and...
Project Finance in Theory and Practice
Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Project Finance in Theory and Practice: Designing, Structuring, and Financing Private and Public Projects, Third Edition presents a set of topics that can be applied to any project financing task. It includes essential, core material for project finance, offering new insights about Sharia-compliant...
Actuaries' Survival Guide
How to Succeed in One of the Most Desirable Professions
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
What would you like to do with your life? What career would allow you to fulfill your dreams of success? If you like mathematics-and the prospect of a highly mobile, international profession-consider becoming an actuary. Szabo’s Actuaries’ Survival Guide, Second Edition explains what actuaries...
Technology Entrepreneurship
Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Recognizing the unique needs of the technology startup, Duening focuses on intellectual property development, funding, and marketing/selling more than other texts in this market. Extensive use of technology examples, case studies, and assignments keeps the book relevant and motivating for engineering...
by Elsevier Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Trading and Money Management in a Student-Managed Portfolio is a hands-on textbook for student-managed investment funds (SMIFs). The book presents the applied material that textbooks on portfolios and investments always overlook. Its focus on "how-to" questions summarizes the disciplines...
Multi-Asset Risk Modeling
Techniques for a Global Economy in an Electronic and Algorithmic Trading Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Multi-Asset Risk Modeling describes, in a single volume, the latest and most advanced risk modeling techniques for equities, debt, fixed income, futures and derivatives, commodities, and foreign exchange, as well as advanced algorithmic and electronic risk management. Beginning with the fundamentals...
Navigating the Business Loan
Guidelines for Financiers, Small-Business Owners, and Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
The need for "back to basics" information about credit risk has not disappeared; in fact, it has grown among lenders and investors who have no easy ways to learn about their clients. This short and readable book guides readers through core risk/performance issues. Readers learn the ways...