Pubbl/distr/stampa	Beijing ; ; New Jersey, : World Scientific Publishing, c2006
Descrizione fisica	xiv, 266 p. : ill
Disciplina	368/.01/03
Altri autori (Persone)	ShangHanji
Soggetto topico	Life insurance - China
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91961-6 9786611919610 981-277-466-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Risk models and ruin theory -- Compound risk models and copula decomposition -- Comonotonically additive premium principles and some related topics -- Fuzzy comprehension evaluation and fuzzy information processing for risks -- Application of fuzzy mathematics to actuarial science -- Some applications of financial economics to insurance -- Exploring on the risk profile of China insurance for setting appropriate solvency capital requirement.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific Publishing, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina	332 657
Altri autori (Persone)	LeeCheng F
Collana	Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance & Accounting
Soggetto topico	Finance - Mathematical models Accounting - Mathematical models
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91197-6 9786611911973 981-277-221-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 The Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolio for Short Puts and Calls in The Boyle-Vorst Model with Transaction Costs Guan-Yu Chen, Ken Palmer and Yuan-Chung Sheu; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. General Contingent Claims in the Two-Period Case; 4. Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolios for Short Puts and Calls in the Two-Period Case; 5. An Example with Path-Dependent Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolios; References Chapter 2 Testing of Non-stationarities in the Unit Circle, Long Memory Processes, and Day of the Week Effects in Financial Data Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis A. Gil-Alana and Mike Nazarski 1. Introduction; 2. Testing of Nonstationarities in the Unit Circle; 3. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study; 4. Two Empirical Applications; 4.1. The Eurodollar rate; 4.2. The Dow Jones index; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3 Equity Restructuring via Tracking Stocks: Is there any Value Added? Beni Lauterbach and Joseph Vu; 1. Introduction; 2. Why Issue Tracking Stocks? 2.1. Information explanations 2.2. The diversification discount motive; 2.3. Investor clientele; 2.4. Agency perspectives; 2.5. Other motivations; 3. Market Response to Tracking Stock Announcements; 4. The Long-Term Response of Parent Stocks; 5. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4 Stock Option Exercises and Discretionary Disclosure Wei Zhang and Steven F. Cahan; 1. Introduction; 2. Prior Literature; 2.1. Disclosure; 2.2. Disclosure and option grants; 2.3. Disclosures, option exercises, and privation information; 3. Hypothesis; 4. Method 4.1. Measurements of main variables 4.2. Model specification; 5. Results; 5.1. Sample and descriptive statistics; 5.2. Regression results from partitioned samples; 5.3. Results from regressions with interactions; 6. Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Do Profit Warnings Convey Information About the Industry? Dave Jackson, Jeff Madura and Judith Swisher; 1. Introduction; 2. Related Literature and Hypotheses; 2.1. Related literature; 2.2. Factors that could influence industry effects; 3. Sample Selection; 4. Descriptive Statistics; 5. Industry Effects 5.1. Industry effects partitioned by pre- and post-RFD5.2. Industry effects partitioned by SIC classification; 5.3. Industry effects partitioned by size of the surprise; 5.4. Industry effects partitioned by the revaluation of the warning firm; 5.5. Industry effects partitioned by size of the warning firm; 5.6. Industry effects partitioned by analyst coverage of the warning firm; 6. Multivariate Analysis; 6.1. Multivariate model; 6.2. Results of multivariate analysis; 6.3. Results of the multivariate analysis applied to pre- and post-RFD periods; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References Chapter 6 Are Whisper Forecasts more Informative than Consensus Analysts' Forecasts? Erik Devos and Yiuman Tse
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Autore	ALSUWAIYEL, M.H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack : World Scientific Publishing, copyr. 1999
Descrizione fisica	XIX, 523 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Disciplina	511.8
Collana	Lecture notes series on computing
Soggetto topico	Algoritmi
ISBN	981-02-3740-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-990003113410203316

Autore	Wang Feng-Yu
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : World Scientific Publishing, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (392 p.)
Disciplina	516.373
Collana	Advanced Series on Statistical Science & Applied Probability
Soggetto topico	Riemannian manifolds Diffusion processes
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	981-4452-65-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface; Contents; 1. Preliminaries; 1.1 Riemannian manifold; 1.1.1 Differentiable manifold; 1.1.2 Riemannian manifold; 1.1.3 Some formulae and comparison results; 1.2 Riemannian manifold with boundary; 1.3 Coupling and applications; 1.3.1 Transport problem and Wasserstein distance; 1.3.2 Optimal coupling and optimal map; 1.3.3 Coupling for stochastic processes; 1.3.4 Coupling by change of measure; 1.4 Harnack inequalities and applications; 1.4.1 Harnack inequality; 1.4.2 Shift Harnack inequality; 1.5 Harnack inequality and derivative estimate 1.5.1 Harnack inequality and entropy-gradient estimate1.5.2 Harnack inequality and L2-gradient estimate; 1.5.3 Harnack inequalities and gradient-gradient estimates; 1.6 Functional inequalities and applications; 1.6.1 Poincar e type inequality and essential spectrum; 1.6.2 Exponential decay in the tail norm; 1.6.3 The F-Sobolev inequality; 1.6.4 Weak Poincare inequality; 1.6.5 Equivalence of irreducibility and weak Poincare inequality; 2. Diffusion Processes on Riemannian Manifolds without Boundary; 2.1 Brownian motion with drift; 2.2 Formulae for Pt and RicZ 2.3 Equivalent semigroup inequalities for curvature lower bound2.4 Applications of equivalent semigroup inequalities; 2.5 Transportation-cost inequality; 2.5.1 From super Poincare to weighted log-Sobolev inequalities; 2.5.2 From log-Sobolev to transportation-cost inequalities; 2.5.3 From super Poincare to transportation-cost inequalities; 2.5.4 Super Poincare inequality by perturbations; 2.6 Log-Sobolev inequality: Different roles of Ric and Hess; 2.6.1 Exponential estimate and concentration of; 2.6.2 Harnack inequality and the log-Sobolev inequality 2.6.3 Hypercontractivity and ultracontractivity2.7 Curvature-dimension condition and applications; 2.7.1 Gradient and Harnack inequalities; 2.7.2 HWI inequalities; 2.8 Intrinsic ultracontractivity on non-compact manifolds; 2.8.1 The intrinsic super Poincare inequality; 2.8.2 Curvature conditions for intrinsic ultracontractivity; 2.8.3 Some examples; 3. Reflecting Diffusion Processes on Manifolds with Boundary; 3.1 Kolmogorov equations and the Neumann problem; 3.2 Formulae for Pt, RicZ and I; 3.2.1 Formula for Pt; 3.2.2 Formulae for RicZ and I; 3.2.3 Gradient estimates 3.3 Equivalent semigroup inequalities for curvature conditionand lower bound of I3.3.1 Equivalent statements for lower bounds of RicZ and I; 3.3.2 Equivalent inequalities for curvature-dimension condition and lower bound of I; 3.4 Harnack inequalities for SDEs on Rd and extension to nonconvex manifolds; 3.4.1 Construction of the coupling; 3.4.2 Harnack inequality on Rd; 3.4.3 Extension to manifolds with convex boundary; 3.4.4 Neumann semigroup on non-convex manifolds; 3.5 Functional inequalities; 3.5.1 Estimates for inequality constants on compact manifolds 3.5.2 A counterexample for Bakry-Emery criterion
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453237703321

Autore	Brown Richard C
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Publishing, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (336 p.)
Disciplina	501
Soggetto topico	Mathematics - Philosophy Science - Philosophy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-44255-4 9786612442551 981-283-525-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Rip van Winkle Awakes; 2. A Golden Age and its End; 3. Ingredients in the PIS Bouillabaisse; 4. A Canary in the Mine; 5. The Unmasking of Reason; 6. Thought Styles and Thought Collectives; 7. The Reluctant Revolutionary; 8. Anything Goes; 9. The Sociological Attack; 10. The Deconstruction of Mathematics; 11. Epistemic Issues; 12. The Fallibility of Conventionalism and Fallibilism; 13. Madison 1973; 14. Kto Kogo?; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456486203321