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Pricing and Revenue Optimization
Robert Phillips Manufacturer: Stanford Business Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0804746982 Release Date: 2005-08-05 |
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Basic tool for RM.......2007-06-11
Pricing and Revenue Optimization.......2006-03-11
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Modeling Risk: Applying Monte Carlo Simulation, Real Options Analysis, Forecasting, and Optimization Techniques (Wiley Finance)
Johnathan Mun Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471789003 |
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This completely revised and updated edition of Applied Risk Analysis includes new case studies in modeling risk and uncertainty as well as a new risk analysis CD-ROM prepared by Dr. Mun. On the CD-ROM you'll find his Risk Simulator and Real Options Super Lattice Solver software as well as many useful spreadsheet models. "Johnathan Mun's book is a sparkling jewel in my finance library. Mun demonstrates a deep understanding of the underlying mathematical theory in his ability to reduce complex concepts to lucid explanations and applications. For this reason, he's my favorite writer in this field."
—Janet Tavakoli, President, Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc. and author of Collateralized Debt Obligations and Structured Finance
"A must-read for product portfolio managers . . . it captures the risk exposure of strategic investments, and provides management with estimates of potential outcomes and options for risk mitigation."
—Rafael E. Gutierrez, Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Planning, Seagate Technology, Inc.
"Once again, Dr. Mun has created a 'must-have, must-read' book for anyone interested in the practical application of risk analysis. Other books speak in academic generalities, or focus on one area of risk application. [This book] gets to the heart of the matter with applications for every area of risk analysis. You have a real option to buy almost any book?you should exercise your option and get this one!"
—Glenn Kautt, MBA, CFP, EA, President and Chairman, The Monitor Group, Inc.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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A 600-Page Advertisement.......2007-04-26
Applying Monte Carlo Simulation.......2007-03-30
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Numerical Optimization (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
Jorge Nocedal , and Stephen Wright Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0387303030 |
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Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that are best suited to practical problems.
For this new edition the book has been thoroughly updated throughout. There are new chapters on nonlinear interior methods and derivative-free methods for optimization, both of which are used widely in practice and the focus of much current research. Because of the emphasis on practical methods, as well as the extensive illustrations and exercises, the book is accessible to a wide audience. It can be used as a graduate text in engineering, operations research, mathematics, computer science, and business. It also serves as a handbook for researchers and practitioners in the field. The authors have strived to produce a text that is pleasant to read, informative, and rigorous - one that reveals both the beautiful nature of the discipline and its practical side.
There is a selected solutions manual for instructors for the new edition.
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good quality.......2007-09-27
outstanding.......2007-05-15
A book for understanding numerical optimization algorithms.......2006-10-06
Too much explanation, relative to the required background; some omissions in motivation.......2006-09-24
Outstanding reference.......2006-07-17
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Financial Optimization
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521419050 |
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The use of mathematical models in financial management is today common business practice. The state of the art is constantly being advanced by academia and refined by industry. This book achieves two objectives. First, it brings together the (apparently) diverse fields of finance and management science/operations research. It presents a variety of techniques used in complex problems for financial management: optimization, simulation, stochastic programming and supercomputing. Second, it links current industrial practices with academic research to a degree unparalleled by any previous publication in the field.Customer Reviews:
Excellent organization of conference and contents.......2001-02-21
A must for all Quantatative Financial Managers.......2000-03-31
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Financial Models and Tools for Managing Lean Manufacturing (Supply Chain Integration Modeling, Optimization and Applicat)
Sameer Kumar , and David Meade Manufacturer: AUERBACH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0849391857 |
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Financial Models and Tools for Managing Lean Manufacturing provides an understanding of the impact that traditional accounting practices have on operational improvement programs. This book shows managers of supply chains how to prepare for and present the impact of Lean Manufacturing to top management and stakeholders of a company. To illustrate the impact of lean manufacturing on the income statement, it presents a multi-month, Excel and Pro-Model based manufacturing operation environment that incorporates actual sales, sales forecasts, and production results. This text offers the financial skills that supply chain managers need to successfully manage Lean Manufacturing and its impacts.
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Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization: A Step-By-Step Guide With Excel and Palisade's Decisiontools Software
Wayne L. Winston Manufacturer: Palisade Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1893281035 |
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Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization offers the most in-depth treatment to date of the use of decision-support software to address financial models in business problems. It is intended for anyone who builds or reviews financial models and for anyone who wants to learn more about decision-support software. Step-by-step instructions take the reader through over 60 examples. Topics covered include options pricing, portfolio optimization, acquisitions modeling, VAR, hedging with futures, risk-neutral approach, and more.Customer Reviews:
Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization: A Step-By-Step Guide With Excel and Palisade's Decisiontools Software.......2006-04-02
Nice book.......2005-10-14
Good guide to learn to develop financial models.......2001-03-18
An execellent guide to intermediate/advanced models.......2000-12-08
Someone interested in the tiresome advanced mathematics behind the models should look instead to academic journals . . . someone interested in APPLYING that stuff to something useful should consider this book.
Excellent resource for marketing or finance manager.......1999-10-16
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Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling (Wiley Interscience Series in Systems and Optimization)
Costas Courcoubetis , and Richard Weber Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470851309 |
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Traditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they should be priced. In today's environment pricing is a very complex subject and in practice depends on many parameters of the actual market - including amount of traffic, architecture of the network, technology, and cost. The challenge is to provide a generic service model which accurately captures aspects such as quality and performance, and can be used to derive optimal pricing strategies. Recent technology advances, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service prividers. Pricing is no longer as simple as picking an appropriate model for a particular contract. There is a real need for a book that explains the provision of new services, the relation between pricing and resource allocation in networks; and the emergence of the internet and how to price it.
Pricing Communication Networks provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing these multidimensional contracts, and includes background in network services and contracts, network techonology, basic economics, and pricing strategy. It can be used by economists to fill in the gaps in their knowledge of network services and technology, and for engineers and operational researchers to gain the background in economics required to price communication services effectively.
Primarily aimed at graduate students, researchers and practitioners from electrical engineering, computer science, economics and operations research Pricing Communication Networks will also appeal to telecomms engineers working in industry.
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"Recent advances in technology, combined with the deregulation of the telecommunication market and the proliferation of the Internet, have created a highly competitive environment for communication service providers. There is no simple recipe for pricing network service contracts in all contexts. Pricing is a complex subject, which depends on parameters of the actual market - including the degree of competition and customer demand - and parameters of technology, such as resource consumption, network architecture, resource availability, and cost. Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling covers many important issues in providing new services, the relation between pricing and resource allocation in networks, and the emergence of the Internet and its pricing. It provides a framework of mathematical models for pricing multidimensional contracts with quality of service guarantees, and includes a useful background on network services and contracts, network technology, basic economics, and pricing strategy.Provides a broad overview of network services and contracts. Includes a primer on modern network technology a nd the economic concepts relevant to pricing and competition. Discusses mathematical models for multiplexing bursty traffic flows, and applies these to measuring network capability and deriving pricing strategies for services with statistical quality guarantees. Discusses definitions of cost for communication networks and explains the intricacies of cost-based pricing. Explains congestion pricing and its potential applications in the Internet. Illustrated throughout by detailed examples and figures. Includes coverage of specialist topics, such as regulation, multicasting, interconnection, and auctions. Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling is an essential reference for graduate students, researchers and practitioners from electrical engineering, computer science, economics and operations resear
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Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming (Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering)
Yves Pochet , and Laurence A. Wolsey Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0387299599 |
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This textbook provides a comprehensive modeling, reformulation and optimization approach for solving production planning and supply chain planning problems, covering topics from a basic introduction to planning systems, mixed integer programming (MIP) models and algorithms through the advanced description of mathematical results in polyhedral combinatorics required to solve these problems. This book addresses solving real life or industrial production planning problems (involving complex production structures with multiple production stages) using MIP modeling and reformulation approach. It is based on the twenty years worth of research in which the authors have played a significant role. One of the goals of this book is to allow non-expert readers, students in business, engineering, applied mathematics and computer science to solve such problems using standard modeling tools and MIP software. To achieve this the book provides an introduction to MIP modeling and to planning systems, as well as a unique collection of reformulation results, integrating them into a comprehensive modeling and reformulation approach, as well as an easy to use problem-solving library. Moreover this approach is demonstrated through a series of real life case studies, exercises and detailed illustrations. Graduate students and researchers in operations research, management, science and applied mathematics wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the formulations and mathematics underlying this approach will find this book useful because of its detailed treatment of the polyhedral structure of the basic lot-sizing problems and simple mixed integer sets that arise in more complicated problems. Reading this book will allow the reader to improve formulations of non-standard MIP models much more effectively and produce state-of-the-art models and algorithms.
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Nonlinear Optimization with Financial Applications
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1402081103 |
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The book introduces the key ideas behind practical nonlinear optimization. Computational finance – an increasingly popular area of mathematics degree programs – is combined here with the study of an important class of numerical techniques. The financial content of the book is designed to be relevant and interesting to specialists. However, this material – which occupies about one-third of the text – is also sufficiently accessible to allow the book to be used on optimization courses of a more general nature. The essentials of most currently popular algorithms are described, and their performance is demonstrated on a range of optimization problems arising in financial mathematics. Theoretical convergence properties of methods are stated, and formal proofs are provided in enough cases to be instructive rather than overwhelming. Practical behavior of methods is illustrated by computational examples and discussions of efficiency, accuracy and computational costs. Supporting software for the examples and exercises is available (but the text does not require the reader to use or understand these particular codes). The author has been active in optimization for over thirty years in algorithm development and application and in teaching and research supervision.
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Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization II: Investment
Wayne L. Winston Manufacturer: Palisade Corporation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1893281043 |
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First published in 1998, Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization quickly became one of the most widely used references for the application of simulation and optimization techniques to financial problems. Now, author Wayne Winston has done it again with a totally new volume! Financial Models II is packed with real-life examples that demonstrate how @RISK, Evolver and Excel can be used to make better financial decisions. Winston's straightforward, step-by-step approach makes his innovative techniques accessible to anyone who uses Microsoft Excel.Topics covered include:
o Modeling future stock prices and hedging stock price and interest rate risk. Examples include Value At Risk (VAR), incorporating analyst forecasts, correlating stock forecasts, and bootstrapping.
o Portfolio optimization, including minimizing a portfolio's risk, finding the Efficiency Frontier, minimizing the probability of loss, and maximizing the Sharpe Ratio.
o Valuing a firm or a stock price, including modeling key drivers of firm value, incorporating simulation into Proforma models, forecasting income of a corporation, and modeling profitability of a new product.
o Real options and options pricing analysis, including valuing options by arbitrage methods, Black-Scholes pricing, estimating volatility using the historical and implied volatility approaches, option pricing using the risk neutral approach, binomial and lognormal pricing models.
o Pricing and marketing models, including optimal product bundling, price response to currency fluctuations, conjoint analysis, and discrete choice analysis.
o Plus: playing craps with @RISK and simulating the NBA finals!
Examples in this book have been developed and used successfully at companies such as GM, Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco. All files discussed are included on CD-ROM. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduates, MBAs, and most of all practicing financial professionals for both self-study or education classes.
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