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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

By: Language: English Series: Texts and monographs in physicsPublication details: Springer 2005 BerlinEdition: 3Description: xv, 378 pISBN:
  • 9783540262855 (HB)
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Contents:
Basic Information on Capital Markets Random Walks in Finance and Physics The Black-Scholes Theory of Option Prices Scaling in Financial Data and in Physics Turbulence and Foreign Exchange Markets Derivative Pricing Beyond Black Scholes Microscopic Market Models Theory of Stock Exchange Crashes Risk Management Economic and Regulatory Capital for Financial Institutions
Summary: "This third edition of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets especially stands apart from other treatments because it offers new chapters containing a practitioner's treatment of two important current topics in banking: the basic notions and tools of risk management and capital requirements for financial institutions, including an overview of the new Basel II capital framework which may well set the risk management standards in scores of countries for years to come."--Jacket
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Basic Information on Capital Markets
Random Walks in Finance and Physics
The Black-Scholes Theory of Option Prices
Scaling in Financial Data and in Physics
Turbulence and Foreign Exchange Markets
Derivative Pricing Beyond Black
Scholes
Microscopic Market Models
Theory of Stock Exchange Crashes
Risk Management
Economic and Regulatory Capital for Financial Institutions

"This third edition of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets especially stands apart from other treatments because it offers new chapters containing a practitioner's treatment of two important current topics in banking: the basic notions and tools of risk management and capital requirements for financial institutions, including an overview of the new Basel II capital framework which may well set the risk management standards in scores of countries for years to come."--Jacket

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