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Operational Risk Assessment: The Commercial Imperative of a More Forensic and Trasparent Approach
Brendon Young & Rodney Coleman
The most up-to-date look at the forensic approach to operational risk assessment, within the context of the latest legislation on transparency.
ISBN: 9780470753873 - 17-Apr-09 - £65.00
This is the draft of a book based on three lectures given in May 2004 at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. It should be published by the Princeton University Press this year. The current version is preliminary and subject to change prior to publication.
Stochastic Processes, Interest Rate Models, Hybrid Models, Numerical Methods, Object Oriented Implementation. By Christian P. Fries.
By Dean LeBaron and Romesh Vaitilingam.
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By Michael de Portu of the Prism Group LLC.
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- Normal Distribution: characterizations with applications (LNS vol 100, 1995) - Applied Probability & Stochastic Processes (1996) - Large Deviations: Performance analysis By Wlodzimierz Bryc
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By David F. Batten (2000)
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By R. Preston McAfee (California Institute of Technology) - "The Open Source Introduction to Microeconomics".
A list of links to useful mathematical textbooks available for free on the Internet. They are all legal and maintained by their authors or by the legitimate publisher.
Jesse L. Livermore, the author of this book begins by writing: The Game of Speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the man of inferior emotional balance, nor for the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.
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In this groundbreaking workFriedrich von Hayek argues that the government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop recurring bouts of inflation and deflation. Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed to 'capitalism'. For the first time Denationalisation of Money is available as a free download in high quality pdf format (12 MB).
By Charles MacKay. "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
There are many interesting aspects to Benjamin Franklin's monetary theory. Franklin believed the supply of money determined the interest rate, and through the interest rate influenced the value of land, capital investment, and trade. Modern economists often associate these ideas with Keynes, although Keynes himself noted in the General Theory that many so-called merchantalists had advanced similar notions.
The world has been slow to realize that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern history...
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By Edward E. Leamer presents a tour of US Macroeconomic Data
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K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation is an enormously original book about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically sound.
By Ross M. Miller. It all began with what seemed like a perfect moment...
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Dan Ariely's book, made available at Scribd.
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Ed. by Christian L. Dunis, Jason Laws, Patrick Naim and published by Wiley.
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In this seminal work University of Chicago economist Frank Knight established the important distinction between risk and uncertainty.
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