1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782280003321

Titolo

Recent developments in mathematical finance [[electronic resource] ] : International Conference on Mathematical Finance, Shanghai, China, 10-13 May 2001 / / editor Jiongmin Yong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, 2002

ISBN

1-281-94836-5

9786611948368

981-279-957-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288p. ) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

YongJ <1958-> (Jiongmin)

Disciplina

332.63/2/0151

Soggetti

Business mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Preface v -- Dynamic Asset Management: Risk Sensitive Criterion with Nonnegative Factors Constraints 1 -- A. Bagchi and K. S. Kumar -- Intensity-Based Valuation of Basket Credit Derivatives 12 -- T. R. Bielecki and M. Rutkowski -- Comonotonicity of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations 28 -- Z. Chen and X. Wang -- Some Lookback Option Pricing Problems 39 -- X. Guo -- Option Pricing in a Market Where the Volatility Is Driven by Fractional Brownian Motions 49 -- Y. Hu -- Optimal Investment and Consumption with Fixed and Proportional Transaction Costs 60 -- H. Liu -- Sharp Estimates of Ruin Probabilities for Insurance Models Involving Investments 72 -- J. Ma and X. Sun -- Risk-Sensitive Optimal Investment Problems with Partial Information on Infinite Time Horizon 85 -- H. Nagai and S. Peng -- Filtration Consistent Nonlinear Expectations 99 -- F. Coquet, Y. Hu, J. Memin, and S. Peng -- Pricing and Hedging of Index Derivatives under an Alternative Asset Price Model with Endogenous -- Stochastic Volatility 117 -- D. Heath and E. Platen -- Risk Sensitive Asset Management with Constrained -- iaing Strategies 127 -- T. R. Bielecki, D. Hernandez-Hernandez, and S. R. Pliska -- On Filtering in Markovian Term Structure Models 139 -- C. Chiarella, S. Pasquali, and W. J. Runggaldier -- A Theory of Volatility 151 -- A. Savine -- Discrete Time Markets with



Transaction Costs 168 -- L. Stettner -- The Necessity of No Asymptotic Arbitrage in APT Pricing 181 -- X. Lin, X. Liu, and Y. Sun -- Financial Mean-Variance Problems and Stochastic LQ Problems: Linear Stochastic Hamilton Systems and Backward Stochastic Riccati Equations 190 -- S. Tang -- Options on Dividend Paying Stocks 204 -- R. Beneder and T. Vorst -- Some Remarks on Arbitrage Pricing Theory 218 -- J. Xia and J. Yan -- Risk: From Insurance to Finance 228 -- H. Yang -- Using Stochastic Approximation Algorithms in Stock Liquidation 238 -- G. Yin, Q. Zhang, and R. H. Liu -- Contingent Claims in an Illiquid Market 249 -- H. Liu and J. Yong -- Arbitrage Pricing Systems in a Market Driven by an Ito Process 263 -- S. Luo, J. Yan, and Q. Zhang -- Participants of the Conference 273.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of developments in mathematical finance, containing the proceedings of a conference on the subject. The papers address the pricing of various contingent claims within different frameworks, risk-sensitive problems, optimal investment, defaultable term structure, and more.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959204803321

Autore

Whissel Kristen <1969->

Titolo

Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / / Kristen Whissel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786613065117

9781283065115

1283065118

9780822391456

0822391457

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Disciplina

791.43/656

791.43656

Soggetti

Technology in motion pictures

Transportation in motion pictures

War films - United States - History and criticism

Silent films - United States - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 The Early Cinema Encounters Empire: War Actualities, American Modernity, and Military Masculinity -- 2 Placing Audiences on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century -- 3 Electric Modernity and the Cinema at the Pan-American Exposition: The City of Living Light -- 4 Regulating Mobility: Traffic, Technology, and Feature-Length Narrativity.

Sommario/riassunto

Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.