Key Features:Despite standard nonlinear modeling methods (neural networks, radial basis functions and so on) being the subject of numerous excellent texts, this book focuses on finding the best model and how to determine when a given model is "good enough"Several new, state-of-the-art methods to...

Increasing concerns regarding environment and sustainability drive firms to devote resources to green product development to satisfy customers’ preference and gain competitive advantage. Organizations require an effective learning orientation along with a market-based orientation in order to...

In this paper we examine the effect of default correlation on the price, duration and convexity of a bond portfolio. We use Clayton copula and t copula to characterize the default dependence structure. Our main result shows that, under these two types of default dependence structure, while the...