Finance and the finance industry

Financial Systems at the Crossroads: Lessons for China is written by leading financial experts to study the causes of financial disasters internationally.

China has initiated and implemented its economic reforms for over 30 years, however, the comprehensive economic reforms and opening up is still unfolding.

A corporate manager typically oversees several ongoing projects and has the opportunity to invest in new projects that add wealth to the stockholders.

This book provides the first systematic classification and treatment to essentially all exotic options currently trading at the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market.

This volume selects the best contributions from the Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks in the Capital Markets (NNCM).

This book discusses many key topics in investment and risk management, the global economic situation and the shift in global investment strategies.

The book gives a thorough introduction into object orientated design and programming using C++.

This is the first systematic source which tries to explain how and why the 233-year old and the World's oldest merchant bank went into bankruptcy in a few days.

This book consists of two essays on new approaches for the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and the Present Value Model, and one essay on cross-sectional correlations in panel data.

This volume is a collection of classical and recent empirical studies of currency options and their implications for issues of exchange rate economics, such as exchange rate risk premium, volatility, market expectations, and credibility of exchange rate regimes.

This is an interdisciplinary book for knowledge workers in business, finance, management, and socio-economic sciences.

This book studies the actual financial phenomena underlying the evaluation of financial derivatives, which is today virtually identified with and even replaced by the study of the mathematical aspects of stochastic calculus as a model for such phenomena.

China is now facing the challenge of designing and carrying out new reforms of its taxation system.

Hong Kong's reunification with China on July 1, 1997 after 156 years of British rule was a historic event of worldwide significance.

This is the first systematic and extensive book on exotic options.

This important book provides information necessary for those dealing with stochastic calculus and pricing in the models of financial markets operating under uncertainty; introduces the reader to the main concepts, notions and results of stochastic financial mathematics; and develops applications of these results to various kinds of calculations required in financial engineering.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) features prominently in today's media.

This invaluable book contains lectures delivered at the celebrated Seminar in Mathematical Finance at the Courant Institute.

The organization of this study guide parallels that of Cheng F Lee's Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, providing a comprehensive treatment of every chapter.

The rapid emergence of active financial markets in a number of developing and transition countries during the 1990s is a momentous phenomenon.

The widespread use of bankchecks in daily life makes the development of check-reading systems of fundamental relevance to banks and other financial institutions.

The focus of the book is the construction of optimal investment strategies in a security market model where the prices follow diffusion processes.

This book addresses selected practical applications and recent developments in the areas of quantitative financial modeling in derivatives instruments, some of which are from the authors' own research and practice.

Neural networks are increasingly being used in real-world business applications and, in some cases, such as fraud detection, they have already become the method of choice.

Since 1993, Chinese foreign investment laws (CFILs) have been moving towards the common principles of foreign investment laws in market economies.

This book contains lectures delivered at the celebrated Seminar in Mathematical Finance at the Courant Institute.

The Asian financial crisis has attracted much attention to this part of the world, especially Southeast Asia where the crisis first emerged.

Global Positioning for Financial Services is a broad-based examination of the changes occurring in financial services.

Trade Agreements and Financial Services examines the cross-border agreements that have historically been focused on the trade of merchandise goods.

This book extends the dynamic and stochastic analysis of economic efficiency by using the recent techniques of data envelopment analysis.

This book analyzes the extent to which banks and industry have worked together to promote economic growth.

Latest Edition: Pricing Derivative Securities (2nd Edition)The development of successful techniques for valuing derivative assets is among the most influential achievements of economic science.

The rapid changes that have taken place globally on the economic, social and business fronts characterized the 20th century.

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 volume is a collection of solicited and refereed articles from distinguished researchers across the field of stochastic analysis and its application to finance.

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.