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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789716503321

Autore

Rachev S. T (Svetlozar Todorov)

Titolo

Advanced stochastic models, risk assessment, and portfolio optimization [[electronic resource] ] : the ideal risk, uncertainty, and performance measures / / by Svetlozar T. Rachev, Stoyan V. Stoyanov, Frank J. Fabozzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley

[Chichester, : John Wiley, distributor], 2008

ISBN

1-281-21730-1

0-470-25360-6

9786611217303

1-283-27295-4

9786613272959

1-118-08614-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (39 p.)

Collana

The Frank J. Fabozzi series

Altri autori (Persone)

StoyanovStoyan V

FabozziFrank J

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Stochastic processes

Mathematical optimization

Risk assessment - Mathematical models

Portfolio management - Mathematical models

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

Advanced Stochastic Models, Risk Assessment, and Portfolio Optimization; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1 Concepts of Probability; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 BASIC CONCEPTS; 1.3 DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; 1.4 CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; 1.5 STATISTICAL MOMENTS AND QUANTILES; 1.6 JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; 1.7 PROBABILISTIC INEQUALITIES; 1.8 SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 2 Optimization; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; 2.3 CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; 2.4 SUMMARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 3 Probability Metrics; 3.1 INTRODUCTION



3.2 MEASURING DISTANCES: THE DISCRETE CASE3.3 PRIMARY, SIMPLE, AND COMPOUND METRICS; 3.4 SUMMARY; 3.5 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 4 Ideal Probability Metrics; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE CLASSICAL CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; 4.3 THE GENERALIZED CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM; 4.4 CONSTRUCTION OF IDEAL PROBABILITY METRICS; 4.5 SUMMARY; 4.6 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 5 Choice under Uncertainty; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; 5.3 STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; 5.4 PROBABILITY METRICS AND STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; 5.5 SUMMARY; 5.6 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 6 Risk and Uncertainty6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 MEASURES OF DISPERSION; 6.3 PROBABILITY METRICS AND DISPERSION MEASURES; 6.4 MEASURES OF RISK; 6.5 RISK MEASURES AND DISPERSION MEASURES; 6.6 RISK MEASURES AND STOCHASTIC ORDERS; 6.7 SUMMARY; 6.8 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 7 Average Value-at-Risk; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 AVERAGE VALUE-AT-RISK; 7.3 AVaR ESTIMATION FROM A SAMPLE; 7.4 COMPUTING PORTFOLIO AVaR IN PRACTICE; 7.5 BACKTESTING OF AVaR; 7.6 SPECTRAL RISK MEASURES; 7.7 RISK MEASURES AND PROBABILITY METRICS; 7.8 SUMMARY; 7.9 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chapter 8 Optimal Portfolios8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 MEAN-VARIANCE ANALYSIS; 8.3 MEAN-RISK ANALYSIS; 8.4 SUMMARY; 8.5 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 9 Benchmark Tracking Problems; 9.1 INTRODUCTION; 9.2 THE TRACKING ERROR PROBLEM; 9.3 RELATION TO PROBABILITY METRICS; 9.4 EXAMPLES OF r.d. METRICS; 9.5 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 9.6 SUMMARY; 9.7 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 10 Performance Measures; 10.1 INTRODUCTION; 10.2 REWARD-TO-RISK RATIOS; 10.3 REWARD-TO-VARIABILITY RATIOS; 10.4 SUMMARY; 10.5 TECHNICAL APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This groundbreaking book extends traditional approaches of risk measurement and portfolio optimization by combining distributional models with risk or performance measures into one framework. Throughout these pages, the expert authors explain the fundamentals of probability metrics, outline new approaches to portfolio optimization, and discuss a variety of essential risk measures. Using numerous examples, they illustrate a range of applications to optimal portfolio choice and risk theory, as well as applications to the area of computational finance that may be useful to financial engineers.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154966903321

Autore

Ivakhiv Adrian J

Titolo

Ecologies of the Moving Image [[electronic resource] ] : Cinema, Affect, Nature / / Adrian J. Ivakhiv

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2013]

©2013

Beaconsfield, Quebec : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2013

ISBN

1-55458-906-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Collana

Environmental humanities series

Disciplina

791.4366

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Journey into the zone of cinema -- Ecology, morphology, semiosis: A process-relational account of the cinema -- Territory: The geomorphology of the visible -- Encounter: First contact, utopia, and the becoming of another -- Anima Moralia: Journeys across frontiers -- Terra and trauma: The geopolitics of the real -- Afterword: Digital futures in a biosemiotic world.

Sommario/riassunto

"Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe. This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to its lived ecologies--the material, social, and perceptual relations within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. Cinema, Adrian Ivakhiv argues, lures us into its worlds, but those worlds are grounded in a material and communicative Earth that supports them, even if that supporting materiality withdraws from visibility. Ivakhiv examines the geographies,



visualities, and anthropologies--relations of here and there, seer and seen, us and them, human and inhuman--found across a range of styles and genres, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries to westerns and road movies, and from sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Greenaway, Malick, Dash, and Brakhage as well as YouTube's expanding audiovisual universe. Through its process-relational account of cinema, drawn from philosophers such as Whitehead, Peirce, and Deleuze, the book boldly enriches our understanding of film and visual media."--Publisher's website.