This book can serve as the text for a one-semester course on Monte Carlo simulation. The intended audience is advanced undergraduate students or students on master's programs who wish to learn the basics of this exciting topic and its applications to finance. The book is largely self-contained....

"I liked this book because it gave me a good review of the mathematics of option pricing. The chapters are well written and were clear to me."-INFORMS Journal on Computing, 25(1), 2013"… is suitable for the practitioner in search of a hands-on approach to the topic, as well as the...

A life-cycle savings model was tested to analyze consumption patterns of elderly U.S. households, using the 1990 and 1991 BLS Interview Survey of Consumer Expenditures. The model implies substantial, planned decreases in consumption after retirement, regardless of income patterns. The empirical...

Testing portfolio alpha against a linear factor model can be interpreted as a mean-variance efficiency test of the optimal portfolio of factors. For ambiguity neutral investor, adding active portfolio with statistically significant alpha always implies efficiency gain relative to the optimal...