Methods of Mathematical Finance:
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Main Author: Karatzas, Ioannis 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1998
Series:Applications of Mathematics, Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability 39
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:This book is intended for readers who are quite familiar with probability and stochastic processes but know little or nothing about finance. It is written in the definition/theorem/proof style of modern mathematics and attempts to explain as much of the ?nance motivation and terminology as possible. A mathematical monograph on finance can be written today only - cause of two revolutions that have taken place on Wall Street in the latter half of the twentieth century. Both these revolutions began at universities, albeit in economics departments and business schools, not in departments of mathematicsor statistics. They have led inexorably, however, to an escalation in the level of mathematics (including probability, statistics, partial differential equations and their numerical analysis) used in finance, to a point where genuine research problems in the former fields are now deeply intertwined with the theory and practice of the latter. The first revolution in finance began with the 1952 publication of "Portfolio Selection," an early version of the doctoral dissertation of Harry Markowitz. This publication began a shift away from the concept of trying to identify the "best" stock for an investor, and towards the concept of trying to understand and quantify the trade-offs between risk and return inherent in an entire portfolio of stocks. The vehicle for this so-called mean–variance analysis of portfolios is linear regression; once this analysis is complete, one can then address the optimization problem of choosing the portfolio with the largest mean return, subject to keeping the risk (i. e
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 416 p)
ISBN:9780387227054
9781441928528
ISSN:0172-4568
DOI:10.1007/b98840

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