New Operational Approaches for Financial Modelling

th This book is devoted to the 19 Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling, held in Chania, Crete, Greece,November28-30, 1996. The EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling was founded in September 1986 in Lisbon. The primary field of interest for the Working Group can be described a...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zopounidis, Constantin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Contributions to Management Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Nonlinear error-correction models in the Greek money market
  • An investigation into alternative indicators of risk exposure: A case study at the export credits guarantee department (U.K.)
  • Disappearing clouds: Weather influences on retail sales
  • V. Corporate Finance: Investment and Financing Decisions
  • Firm finance and growth: An empirical analysis
  • Investment project analysis and financing mix: A new method in sight?
  • A new linear programming formulation for the capital rationing problem
  • VI. Insurance Companies and Financial Modelling
  • Modelling shareholder value of insurance companies
  • Zero-utility premium and time
  • On the use of multicriteria methods for the evaluation of insurance companies in Greece
  • VII. Stochastic Modelling and Uncertainty in Finance
  • Preferences for early resolution of risk in financial markets with asymmetricinformation
  • GARCH models as diflusion approximation: A simulation approach for currency hedging using options
  • I. New Trends in Financial Modelling
  • Financial modelling in the new paradigm of the decision theory
  • Optimization techniques for portfolio selection
  • II. High Performance Computing and Finance
  • Asset liability management for pension funds: Elements of Dert’s model
  • Postoptimality for a bond portfolio management model
  • Demand for assets by heterogeneous agents in the Italian markets
  • III. Financial Markets, Portfolio Theory and Selection
  • Recent developments in modelling abnormal stock returns: A review essay
  • Warrants pricing in a thin market: Case of Thailand
  • “Ebb and flow” of fundamentalist, imitator and contrarian investors in a financial market
  • Applicability of the CAPM on the Hungarian stock market: An empirical investigation
  • Stock market behaviour and imitation: Some further results
  • On selecting a portfolio of lease contracts in an asset-backed securitization process
  • IV. Financial Forecasting
  • Antiusury laws and market interest rate dynamics
  • Selection of investment using a decision tree
  • VIII. Data Analysis and Financial Accounting
  • Accounting ratios as factors of rate of return on equity
  • Multivariate analysis in segment reporting by large industry firms in Greece
  • An alternative proposal in evaluating the performance of mutual funds
  • IX. Multicriteria Analysis in Financial Decisions
  • A circumscribed ellipsoid method for multiobjective programming and applications to financial planning
  • A decision support approach based on multicriterion Q-Analysis for the evaluation of corporate performance and viability
  • Establishing efficiency benchmarks of bank branches
  • Preference disaggregation methodology in segmentation problems: The case of financial distress
  • Linear and dynamic modelisations of defeasance operations
  • Author Index