Finance and the finance industry

The book deals with topics such as the pricing of various contingent claims within different frameworks, risk-sensitive problems, optimal investment, defaultable term structure, etc.

The exponential growth of China's stock markets in the past decade has attracted global attention from academics and practitioners.

Real estate finance is a fast-developing area where top quality research is in great demand.

This invaluable book contains lectures presented at the Courant Institute's Mathematical Finance Seminar.

It is interesting to note that after two years of recession in East Asia, almost all the countries in this region are rising again.

At the beginning of the new millennium, two unstoppable processes are taking place in the world: (1) globalization of the economy; (2) information revolution.

It is now ten years since the former Soviet Union collapses and the countries of Europe and Central Asia abandoned central planning.

There has been a tremendous growth in the volume of financial transactions based on mathematics, reflecting the confidence in the Nobel-Prize-winning Black-Scholes option theory.

This book introduces an analytically tractable and computationally effective class of non-Gaussian models for shocks (regular Levy processes of the exponential type) and related analytical methods similar to the initial Merton-Black-Scholes approach, which the authors call the Merton-Black-Scholes theory.

Exotic methods refer to specific functions within general soft computing methods such as genetic algorithms, neural networks and rough sets theory.

This book contains papers selected from the 25th Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations Annual Meeting, hosted by the Economic Society of Singapore on 7-8 September 2000, in Singapore.

In this book, Dr Mak views the financial market from a scientific perspective.

This book is the first of its kind in providing, simultaneously and comprehensively, historical, institutional and theoretical foundations for developments in the stock market.

Latest Edition: Financial Economics, Risk and Information (2nd Edition)This book presents a balanced blend of pure finance and contract theory in the presence of risk, alternative forms of information structures, and static and dynamic frameworks.

NewsProfessor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).

This book describes recently developed mathematical models, methodologies, and case studies in diverse areas, including stock market analysis, portfolio optimization, classification techniques in economics, supply chain optimization, development of e-commerce applications, etc.

This book presents recent advances in the theory and implementation of intelligent and other computational techniques in the insurance industry.

This book contains 17 articles on stochastic processes (stochastic calculus and Malliavin calculus, functionals of Brownian motions and Levy processes, stochastic control and optimization problems, stochastic numerics, and so on) and their applications to problems in mathematical finance.

This workshop was the first of its kind in bringing together researchers in probability theory, stochastic processes, insurance and finance from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and the United States.

This book presents the contributions to the first Wild@Ace conference.

To truly understand the current interest in the development of Islamic banking and finance in South-East Asia, and how it is different from the conventional banking system, the author believes one must firstly understand the religious relationship originating from the Qur'an, and then trace the historical geographic and political developments of Islam over recent centuries.

NewsProfessor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).

With the CNY revaluation perspectives, hundreds of billions of US dollars have been invested in various types of CNY-related derivative products.

Bank failures, like illness and taxes, are almost a certainty at some time in the future.

The first edition of Theory of Valuation is a collection of important papers in the field of theoretical financial economics published from 1973 to 1986, and original accompanying essays contributed by eminent researchers including Robert C Merton, Edward C Prescott, Stephen A Ross, and Joseph E Stiglitz.

The World of Hedge Funds is a compendium of distinguished papers focusing on the cutting-edge analysis of hedge funds.

The compendium of papers in this volume focuses on aspects of economic uncertainty, financial instabilities and asset bubbles.

This monograph represents a unified coherent perspective of financial markets and the theory of corporate finance.

Risk management is a foundation discipline for the prudent conduct of investment management.

In recent years, the banking industry has faced significant challenges due to deregulation, globalization, financial innovation, and intensified global competition.

NewsProfessor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).

The present book contains much more materials than the author's previous book The Science of Financial Market Trading.

A reprint of one of the classic volumes on portfolio theory and investment, this book has been used by the leading professors at universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon.

Wealth Wisdom for Everyone, as featured on Prime Time Morning on Channel NewsAsia, provides a simple yet powerful approach to managing your personal finances and building your personal wealth.

Cross-border banking, while having the potential for a more efficient financial sector, also creates potential challenges for bank supervisors and regulators.

This unique volume provides a comprehensive overview of all the major aspects of modern drinking water systems in the western European context.

This book explores the potential and problems of bank safety and efficiency arising from the rapidly growing area of cross-border banking in the form of branches or subsidiaries with primarily only national prudential regulation.

The current literature on financial economics is dominated by neoclassical dogma and, supposedly, the notion of value-neutrality.

The globalization of financial markets has led to an integrated world market.

The recent growth of credit derivatives has been explosive.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues related to risk, volatility, value and risk management.

This book contains several innovative models for the prices of financial assets.

The objective of this book is to help an individual (or a family) design a personal investment strategy.

The cost of capital concept has myriad applications in business decision-making.

This pioneering book describes the applications of agent-based modeling to financial markets.

Modern asset pricing models play a central role in finance and economic theory and applications.

The Asian stock market is commonly regarded as confusing for many investors, yet it is arguably the most exciting market in the world today.

To truly understand the current interest in the development of Islamic banking and finance in South-East Asia and how it is different from the conventional banking system, one must first understand the religious relationship originating from the Qur'an, and then trace the historical geographic and political developments of Islam over recent centuries.

This book explores the important topic of fiscal decentralization in Asian countries, and focuses on how government finance and administration are being reformed to bring budgetary decisions closer to voters.

A reprint of one of the classic volumes on racetrack efficiency, this book is the only one in its field that deals with the racetrack betting market in-depth, containing all the important historical papers on racetrack efficiency.