Category: Financial

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The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom

Suze Orman’s reading of the audio version of her bestselling book The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom is nothing if not intense. Coming at you with the force of a summer hurricane heading for Cape Fear, Orman recounts one horror story after another to help us avoid financial disaster

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Applied Data Mining: Statistical Methods for Business and Industry

Data mining can be defined as the process of selection, exploration and modelling of large databases, in order to discover models and patterns. The increasing availability of data in the current information society has led to the need for valid tools for its modelling and analysis. Data mining and applied statistical methods are the appropriate tools to extract such knowledge from data. Applications occur in many different fields, including statistics, computer science, machine learning, economics, marketing and finance.

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An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

“The authors have shaped the field of high-frequency data in finance; the text provides an excellent summary of their pioneering work.”
Paul Embrechts, Professor of Mathematics, ETH Zurich — Review

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International Trade Theory: A Critical Review

Murray C. Kemp is one of Australia’s foremost economists. He has held positions across the world including London School of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, Columbia University, McGill University, MIT, and latterly Macquarie University. Kemp was a Member of Council for the Econometric Society and was a Distinguished Fellow of the Economics Society of Australia

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The Handbook of Financial Instruments

The Handbook of Financial Instruments
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471220922
ISBN-13: 978-0471220923
Format: PDF
Description: A key decision that investors face is how to allocate their funds among the wide spectrum of financial instruments available. To intelligently make that allocation decision, it is imperative that you understand the investment characteristics of the major [...]