Synopses & Reviews
This book/software package divulges the combined knowledge of a whole international community of Mathematica users - from the fields of economics, finance, investments, quantitative business and operations research. The 23 contributors - all experts in their fields - take full advantage of the latest updates of Mathematica in their presentations and equip both current and prospective users with tools for professional, research and educational projects. The real-world and self-contained models provided are applicable to an extensive range of contemporary problems. The DOS disk contains Notebooks and packages which are also available online from the TELOS site.
Synopsis
This collection of articles is edited by Hal Varian, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley. It provides a high quality and practical selection of contributed articles that impart the expertise of an international contingent of Mathematica users from the economic, financial, investments, quantitative business and operations research communities.
Synopsis
As with the first volume, Volume Two of Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica is edited by Hal Varian, and its contributors are carefully selected by him to assure a high quality, practical work reflecting the efforts and expertise of an international cadre of Mathematica users from the economic, financial, investments, quantitative business and operations research communities.
Table of Contents
Contents: Monte Carlo Studies w/ Mathematica .- Implementing Numerical Option Pricing Models.- Linear Programming.- Auctions.- Interest Rates.- Simulating the Effect of Mergers Among Noncooperative Oligopolists.- Log Spectral Analysis of Financial Models and Data.- Perishable Asset Management.- Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Screening.- Manipulating Probability Distributions.- Nonconvex Optimization: Cost Allocation.