Authors:Svetlozar T. Rachev, Stefan, PhD Mittnik, Frank J. F
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: frank, fabozzi, series, techniques, modeling, econometrics, basics, advanced, financial
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0471784508
ISBN-13: 9780471784500

A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains t

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: improbable, highly, impact, swan, black
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-04-17
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1400063515
ISBN-13: 9781400063512

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hard

Authors:Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Keywords: written, english, spoken, grammar, longman, hardcover
Number of Pages: 1203
Published: 1999-11-05
List price: $158.67
ISBN-10: 0582237254
ISBN-13: 9780582237254

*Over 350 tables and graphs show the frequency of constructions in different contexts, from conversation to fiction to academic prose *Entirely corpus-based with 6000 authentic examples from the 40 million-word Longman Spoken and Written English Corpus *Suggests the reasons why we choose a particular structure in a particular context *Compares British and American spoken and written English Areas covered include basic grammar: description and distribution, key word classes and their phrases and complex structures. Each area is subdivided into more detailed content.

Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Keywords: success, story, outliers
Published: 2008-11-18
List price: $39.98
ISBN-10: 1600243916
ISBN-13: 9781600243912

In this stunning new audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why As

Authors:Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: emphasis, managerial, accounting, cost
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 1999-07-02
List price: $146.00
ISBN-10: 0137605544
ISBN-13: 9780137605545

This acclaimed, market-leading book embraces the basic theme of "different costs for different purposes." Cost Accounting reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. Coverage includes discussions on cost-volume-profit analysis; job costing methods; activity-based costing; variance analysis; process costing; the Internet and World Wide Web; organization structure; supply chain; the value-chain concept; and more. For those interested in cost accounting, economics, and corporate finance.

Author: Paul Krugman
Publisher: Random House Audio
Keywords: crisis, economics, depression, return
Published: 2008-12-12
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0739384724
ISBN-13: 9780739384725

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today’s crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1

Author: William Ury
Publisher: Random House Audio
Keywords: people, difficult, negotiating, past, getting
Published: 2002-01-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0553755587
ISBN-13: 9780553755589

Dr. William L. Ury shows listeners how to overcome serious obstacles to negotiation. Whether dealing with an unruly teenager or an office bully, Dr. Ury’s method will help listeners gain control in even the most difficult situations. Most importantly, GETTING PAST NO gets results.