The mathematisation of finance - excessive use of mathematical models in finance - has been blamed for the recent financial and economic crisis. We argue that the problem might actually be the financialisation of mathematics, as evidenced by the gradual embedding of branches of mathematics into...

The purpose of this chapter is to study the mathematisation of finance – excessive use of mathematical models in finance – which has been widely blamed for the recent financial and economic crisis. We argue that the problem might actually be the financialisation of mathematics, as evidenced...

A reprint of one of the classic volumes on portfolio theory and investment, this book has been used by the leading professors at universities such as Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon. It contains five parts, each with a review of the literature and about 150 pages of computational and...

Preface -- Books for which the problems are designed -- Section A: Arbitrage and asset pricing -- Appendix A: Fundamentals of asset pricing -- Section a exercises -- Section B: Utility theory -- Appendix B: Technical fundamentals for utility theory -- Section B: Exercises -- Stochastic dominance...