Data on the credit rating of bonds issued in the first half of the 1990s suggest that investors in emerging market securities paid little attention to credit risk, or that they were comfortable with the high level of credit risk that they were incurring. The literature in international finance...

What is Optimal Control Theory? -- The Maximum Principle: Continuous Time -- The Maximum Principle: Mixed Inequality Constraints -- The Maximum Principle: General Inequality Constraints -- Applications to Finance -- Applications to Production and Inventory -- Applications to Marketing -- The...

The book presents and discusses theoretical and practical developments in the field of optimization. All papers contain new results and the emphasis has been put on the accessibility of each paper for researchers working in optimization. The topics covered in this volume include: Mathematical...