Asset prices to returns -- Building a portfolio -- Concluding returns -- Standard deviation -- Skewness -- Visualizing rolling kurtosis -- Shiny app skewness and kurtosis -- Concluding risk -- Portfolio theory -- Sharpe ratio -- Concluding portfolio theory -- Practice and applications -- Monte...

This book can serve as the text for a one-semester course on Monte Carlo simulation. The intended audience is advanced undergraduate students or students on master's programs who wish to learn the basics of this exciting topic and its applications to finance. The book is largely self-contained....

Preface: It is necessary to thank many people at the end of a big project like writing a book. First, my thanks go to my patient editor Sunil Nair and his editorial assistants Rachel Holt and Sarah Gelson. Two anonymous reviewers made very thorough and useful comments on an earlier manuscript....