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An analysis of the links between risk management and value creation
Risk Management and Value Creation in Financial Institutions explores a variety of methods that can be utilized to create economic value at financial institutions. This invaluable resource shows how banks can use risk management to create value for shareholders, addresses the advantages of risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) measures, and develops the foundations for a model to identify comparative advantages that emerge as a result of risk-management decisions. It is the only book needed for banking executives interested in the relationship between risk management and value creation.
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Duality in Mathematical Finance (Springer Finance)
Marco Frittelli ,
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This monograph presents an advanced and unified treatment of four important issues that have dominated the theoretical research in mathematical finance for the last ten years: (1) the fundamental theorem of asset pricing; (2) utility maximization in incomplete markets; (3) pricing in incomplete markets; (4) the risk measurement of a static payoff and of a cash-flow stream.
The powerful tools of convex analysis and duality theory are systematically applied to investigate these topics, under very general assumptions on the financial markets.
This duality approach reveals the prominent role of the investor’s preferences in all these fundamental issues and contributes to a deeper understanding of the economic aspects of the theory.
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Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)
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Paris-Princeton Lectures in Financial Mathematics, of which this is the first volume, will, on an annual basis, publish cutting-edge research in self-contained, expository articles from outstanding - established or upcoming! - specialists. The aim is to produce a series of articles that can serve as an introductory reference for research in the field. It arises as a result of frequent exchanges between the finance and financial mathematics groups in Paris and Princeton. The present volume sets standards with articles by P. Bank/H. Föllmer, F. Baudoin, L.C.G. Rogers, and M. Soner/N. Touzi.
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Land Degradation: Problems and Policies
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Land utilization in Australia
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Northern Australia: Options and Implications
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Butterflies and Moths
M. Wrobel
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This dictionary gives an overview of the common names of many of the scientific names applied to the order of Lepidoptera. It lists 4,185 superfamilies and subfamilies, families, genera, species and subspecies of Lepidoptera (giving the name of the family for each entry of a genus, species and subspecies) occurring in Europe, North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Names used in French-speaking Canada are also included.
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Entomology
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Entomology, a companion volume to Elsevier's Dictionary of Butterflies and Moths (ISBN 0-444-50433-8), gives an overview of the common names of insects other than butterflies or moths. It contains 4,947 scientific names of orders, families, genera and species of insects, spiders, snails and other invertebrates (giving the name of the order and of the family for each entry of a genus and/or specific name) occurring in Europe, North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Names used in French-speaking Canada are also included.
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Occurrence and Significance of Erosion, Deposition and Flooding in Great Britain (Department of the Environment)
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Physics of Nonneutral Plasmas
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A nonneutral plasma is a many-body collection of charged particles in which there is not overall charge neutrality. Such systems are characterized by intense self-electric fields, and in high-current configurations by intense self-magnetic fields. Nonneutral plasmas, like electrically neutral plasmas, exhibit a broad range of collective properties, such as plasma waves, instabilities, and Debye shielding. Moreover, the intense self fields in a nonneutral plasma can have a large influence on detailed plasma behavior and stability properties. Since the early 1970s, this important area of physics has developed into a diverse and sophisticated subfield of pure and applied plasma physics. Physics of Nonneutral Plasmas is a graduate-level text which covers a broad range of topics related to the fundamental properties and applications of nonneutral plasmas. The subject matter is treated systematically from first principles using a unified theoretical approach, and the emphasis is on the development of basic concepts that illustrate the underlying physical processes. The book includes 138 problems, 143 figures and illustrations, and the results from several classic experiments illustrating fundamental processes in nonneutral plasmas and coherent electromagnetic wave generation by relativistic electrons. Its thorough treatment of the subject gives it broad and lasting appeal to graduate students and researchers in the field.
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Non-Neutral Plasma Phsysics (AIP Conference Proceedings)
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Non-Neutral Plasma Physics III
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This workshop provided a stimulating forum for the exchange of scientific information among the diverse areas of plasma physics, atomic physics, and chemistry, which study the fundamental properties and applications of non-neutral plasmas. Topics included are: antimatter plasmas, fluid and kinetic studies, collective modes, transport studies, charged particle beams, and strongly coupled plasmas.
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Non-Neutral Plasma Physics IV: Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas, San Diego, California, 30 July-2 August 2001 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Plasma Physics)
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Non-neutral plasmas are clouds of electrons or ions or anti-matter particles contained in a vacuum by magnetic and electric fields. Experiments on these simplest of plasmas give precise tests of basic theories of equilibrium, waves, and cross-field transport. Technical applications include positron beams, mass spectroscopy, quantum computing, and beams for free-electron lasers.
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Non-Neutral Plasma Physics V: Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas (AIP Conference Proceedings / Plasma Physics)
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This workshop was the first one in this series held since the announcement of the formation of cold anti-hydrogen by the ATHENA and ATRAP experiments.
Research presented includes transport, collective modes, and the interplay between the two from both a particle and fluid perspective. This work is carried out in different geometries including cylindrical traps and toroidal systems. Research on cold anti-hydrogen is also represented, since accumulation of large numbers of antiprotons and positrons is a necessary precursor to recombination. Finally, several papers describing experiments on the physics of beams widens the scope to include beams and accelerators.
The Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasma Physics brings together investigators from diverse areas whose research has the common feature of involving plasmas that have constituent particles with the same sign of charge.
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Non-Neutral Plasmas VI: Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas 2006 (AIP Conference Proceedings / Plasma Physics)
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The Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas 2006 focused on fundamental questions regarding confinement and dynamics of one-component plasmas as well as these subject's relevance for other related topics in physics, such as antimatter research, accelerator physics, atomic physics, and dusty plasmas.
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Plasma Physics: Confinement, Transport and Collective Effects provides an overview of modern plasma research with special focus on confinement and related issues. Beginning with a broad introduction, the book leads graduate students and researchers – also those from related fields - to an understanding of the state-of-the-art in modern plasma physics. Furthermore, it presents a methodological cross section ranging from plasma applications and plasma diagnostics to numerical simulations, the latter providing an increasingly important link between theory and experiment. Effective references guide the reader from introductory texts through to contemporary research. Some related exercises in computational plasma physics are supplied on a special web site
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Theory of Nonneutral Plasmas (Advanced Book Classics)
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