This book is the definitive and most comprehensive guide to modeling derivatives in C++ today. Providing readers with not only the theory and math behind the models, as well as the fundamental concepts of financial engineering, but also actual robust object-oriented C++ code, this is a practical...

Praise for Investment Manager Analysis "This is a book that should have been written years ago. It provides a practical, thorough, and completely objective method to analyze and select an investment manager. It takes the mystery (and the consultants) out of the equation. Without question, this...

This volume discusses both the principles and applications of an integrated approach to natural resources management, dealing directly with the wider integration of natural resources. Case studies from around the world, particularly Asia, are presented by international experts.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Contexts -- 2 Solar Radiation -- 3 Water -- 4 Genotype (What?) -- 5 Timing (When?) -- 6 Configuration (How?) -- 7 Manipulating Fluxes -- 8 Synthesis -- References -- Appendix I -- Index.

Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. Despite their potential benefits, public hostility toward these crops is causing dramatic changes to import/export policies, food safety regulations, and...

The astute management of technology is essential for firms who wish to compete within the new economy. In this in-depth study, David Teece considers how firms can exploit technological innovation, protecting their intellectual capital, while staying ahead of the competition. Providing frameworks...

This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right. An original framework is developed to...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Internet Economics -- An Introduction to Internet Economics -- The Economics of he Internet -- Economic FAQs About the Internet -- The Economics of ayered Networks -- Internet Pricing in Practice -- FlatVThe Minimalist Price --...

This book is a critique of economics as social science, unusual because it uses many of the same techniques that contemporary economics and positive political economy use. It relies on game theory, and more importantly, on game-theoretic reasoning; but the technical demands are small. The book...