This handbook includes contributions related to optimization, pricing and valuation problems, risk modeling and decision making problems arising in global financial and commodity markets from the perspective of Operations Research and Management Science. The book is structured in three parts,...

Preface -- Contents -- Part I Risk Modeling -- 1 Directional Returns for Gold and Silver: A Cluster Analysis Approach -- 1.1 Introduction and Literature Review -- 1.2 Data Collection and Preparation -- 1.3 Methodology: Two-Step Cluster Analysis -- 1.4 Gold with Clusters -- 1.4.1 Training Set...

This book offers essential information on the life and career of the recently deceased Giorgio P. Szegö, particularly his important contributions in various areas of mathematical programming and applications to financial markets. It highlights the developments in the fields of stability theory...

The book contains a selection of recently revised papers that have initiallybeen presented at two different meetings of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling. The papers related to the microstructure of capital markets provide evidence that the price dynamics of financial assets can on-...