The second edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply-chain and operations management, combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on the operational roles in the networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan...

As technology advancement has increased, so to have computational applications for forecasting, modelling and trading financial markets and information, and practitioners are finding ever more complex solutions to financial challenges. Neural networking is a highly effective, trainable...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...

Introduction -- Arbitrage Trading in Energy Market and Risk Measurement -- Fuel Markets Connectedness and Fuel Portfolio Risk -- Hedging Strategy with Futures Contracts -- Investing in a portfolio consisting of energies and related commodities.

Chapter 1: The introduction of the portfolio management and risk evaluation -- Chapter 2: The major trends in financial portfolio management -- Chapter 3: Machine Learning and AI in financial portfolio management -- Chapter 4: Introduction of Alternative data in Finance -- Chapter 5: Alternative...

Chapter 1. Introducing Economic Capital -- Part 1. Modelling Credit-Risk Economic Capital -- Chapter 2. Constructing a Practical Model -- Chapter 3. Finding Model Parameters -- Chapter 4. Implementing The Model -- Part 2. Loan Pricing -- Chapter 5. Approximating Economic Capital -- Chapter 6....

Chapter 1: How To Get Richer -- Chapter 2 Deciding What To Invest In -- Chapter 3: Understanding Risk -- Chapter 4: How Much to Hold In Fixed Income Investments -- Chapter 5: When to Exchange Equity for Fixed Income Investments -- Chapter 6: Calculating Spending -- Chapter 7: Insurance Mediates...

This book explores consumer protection in the major financial markets in the world and provides an international comparison among the countries of different cultural background and economic development. Each chapter describes the major issues of financial consumption in the selected country and...

This is the first book to introduce the major quantitative tools in risk management taking financial investments and logistics planning as the background: optimization and stochastic programming. Contained here are the fundamentals of portfolio selection theory from the point of view of risk...

This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...