1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460160103321

Autore

Hull John <1946->

Titolo

Risk management and financial institutions / / John C. Hull

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-95595-1

1-118-95596-X

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (743 p.)

Collana

Wiley Finance Series

Disciplina

332.1068/1

Soggetti

Risk management

Financial institutions - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Business snapshots -- Preface -- Introduction -- Financial institutions and their trading -- Banks -- Insurance companies and pension plans -- Mutual funds and hedge funds -- Appendix a: compounding frequencies and interest rates -- Appendix b: zero rates, forward rates, and zero-coupon yield curves -- Appendix c: valuing forward and futures contracts -- Appendix d: valuing swaps -- Appendix e: valuing European options -- Appendix f: valuing american options -- Appendix g: Taylor series expansions -- Appendix h: eigenvectors and eigenvalues -- Appendix i: principal components analysis -- Appendix j: manipulation of credit transition matrices -- Appendix k: valuation of credit default swaps -- Appendix l: synthetic cdos and their valuation -- Answers to questions and problems -- Glossary of terms -- Derivagem software.

Sommario/riassunto

The most complete, up to date guide to risk management in finance   Risk Management and Financial Institutions explains all aspects of financial risk and financial institution regulation, helping readers better understand the financial markets and potential dangers. This new fourth edition has been updated to reflect the major developments in the industry, including the finalization of Basel III, the fundamental review of the trading book, SEFs, CCPs, and the new rules affecting



derivatives markets. There are new chapters on enterprise risk management and scenario analysis. Readers learn the

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483752203321

Titolo

Spatial Information Theory : 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015, Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12-16, 2015, Proceedings / / edited by Sara Irina Fabrikant, Martin Raubal, Michela Bertolotto, Clare Davies, Scott Freundschuh, Scott Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-23374-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 491 p. 148 illus.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 9368

Disciplina

910.285

Soggetti

Database management

Geographic information systems

Artificial intelligence

Application software

Information storage and retrieval systems

Database Management

Geographical Information System

Artificial Intelligence

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Formalizing and Modeling Space-Time -- Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Representation -- Language and Space -- Signs, Images, Maps, and other Representations of Space -- Navigation by Humans and Machines.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015, held in Santa Fee, NM, USA, in October 2015. The 22 papers presented in this book



were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 full paper submissions. The following topics are addressed: formalizing and modeling space-time, qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning and representation, language and space, signs, images, maps, and other representations of space, navigations by humans and machines.