This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern financial modeling using Excel, VBA, standards of financial modeling and model review. It offers guidance on essential modeling concepts around the four core financial activities in the modern financial industry today: financial...

Aktives Portfoliomanagement wird seit einigen Jahren zunehmend softwaregestützt implementiert, ein Überblick zur Entwicklung derartiger Algotrading-Systeme fehlt jedoch bisher. Christoph Impekoven entwickelt einen Software-Prototyp zur dynamischen Asset-Allocation an den Kapitalmärkten unter...

Modelling of risk factors -- Setting up a multistage stochastic program -- Model output and performance analysis -- Full program code for all described steps in open-source statistical programming language R.

Risk: Is There a Unique Objective Measure? -- Expected Utility Theory -- Stochastic Dominance Decision Rules -- Stochastic Dominance: The Quantile Approach -- Algorithms for Stochastic Dominance -- Stochastic Dominance with Specific Distributions -- Almost Stochastic Dominance (ASD) --...

Teil I: Replikation und verallgemeinerte Diskontierung: Ein-Perioden-Modelle -- Mehr-Perioden-Modelle -- Optionen, Futures und andere Derivate -- Teil II: Stochastische Analysis und verallgemeinerte Diskontierung: Diskrete stochastische Analysis -- Diskrete stochastische Finanzmathematik --...

Robustification of an on-line EM algorithm for modelling asset prices within an HMM -- Stochastic volatility or stochastic central tendency: evidence from a hidden Markov model of the short-term interest rate -- An econometric model of the term structure of interest rates under regime-switching...

This book is devoted to investment decision-making under uncertainty. The book covers three basic approaches to this process: the stochastic dominance approach; the mean-variance approach; and the non-expected utility approach, focusing on prospect theory and its modified version, cumulative...

A number of methodologies have been employed to provide decision making solutions globalized markets. Hidden Markov Models in Finance offers the first systematic application of these methods to specialized financial problems: option pricing, credit risk modeling, volatility estimation and more....

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Norfolk, Virginia. The research and presentations offered in this volume cover many aspects of marketing science including marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, entrepreneurial...