A timely guide to understanding and implementing credit derivatives Credit derivatives are here to stay and will continue to play a role in finance in the future. But what will that role be? What issues and challenges should be addressed? And what lessons can be learned from the credit mess?...

Preface -- Financial modelling -- What is financial modelling? -- Linear regression models -- Regression diagnostics -- Categorical variable models -- Stationary and non-stationary time series -- Dynamic models ii -- Panel data regression models (pooling and panel estimation) -- Asset price and...

The aim of this volume is to provide an introduction and selective overview of the rapidly emerging field of computational economics. Computational economics provides an important set of tools that an increasing number of economists will need to acquire in order to understand and do...