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Commodity markets present several challenges for quantitative modeling. These include high volatilities, small sample data sets, and physical, operational complexity. In addition, the set of traded products in commodity markets is more limited than in financial or equity markets, making value extraction through trading more difficult. These facts make it very easy for modeling efforts to run into serious problems, as many models are very sensitive to noise and hence can easily fail in practice. Modeling and Valuation of Energy Structures is a comprehensive guide to quantitative and statistical approaches that have been successfully employed in support of trading operations, reflecting the author's 17 years of experience as a front-office 'quant'. The major theme of the book is that simpler is usually better, a message that is drawn out through the reality of incomplete markets, small samples, and informational constraints. The necessary mathematical tools for understanding these issues are thoroughly developed, with many techniques (analytical, econometric, and numerical) collected in a single volume for the first time. A particular emphasis is placed on the central role that the underlying market resolution plays in valuation. Examples are provided to illustrate that robust, approximate valuations are to be preferred to overly ambitious attempts at detailed qualitative modeling.

Economic Theory --- Business & Economics --- Mathematical models. --- Models, Mathematical --- Simulation methods --- Econometrics. --- Finance. --- Business mathematics. --- Mathematics. --- Finance, general. --- Business Mathematics. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Mathematics, general. --- Math --- Science --- Arithmetic, Commercial --- Business --- Business arithmetic --- Business math --- Commercial arithmetic --- Finance --- Mathematics --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Government policy

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The volume extends the mainly European focus of the series 'Historiography and ldentity' to probe into a more global perspective, exploring the historiographical cultures of a number of Eurasian macro-regions: China, Japan, Iran, South Arabia, Syria, Byzantium, Lotharingia, and Spain. The broader, Eurasian perspective can contribute to a deeper understanding of the very different ways in which works of historiography could communicate, promote, and negotiate 'visions of community' and concepts of belonging.

Europe --- History.

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"Solzhenitsyn's memoir deals with events, episodes, and individuals of great historical and political significance. In Between Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn gives an account of his first few bewildering months in the West after being forcibly exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He discusses his personal meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. Included in this work too, are Solzhenitsyn's views on the Cold War, Gorbachev's reforms, and the chaotic first few years of post -Soviet Russia, as well as his warnings of what was to come (including with respect to Ukraine). Solzhenitsyn's controversial observations on the West are also included; where he takes aim at the behaviors on display in the literary world, the abuses of freedom in larger society, and the groupthink that, he says, renders nominally free Western society as monolithic in its prevailing opinions as dictatorial Communist society was. And both these monoliths turn in unison like millstones, grinding away together against the west's and Russia's Christian heritage, against the wisdom of centuries, and against historical memory"--

Authors, Russian --- Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich,

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Depuis près de quarante ans, Pierre Manent trace une voie originale et féconde. Ses livres interrogent les formes politiques qui donnent sens à l’expérience historique, de la cité grecque aux nations européennes, en passant par l’Empire romain et l’Église chrétienne. Cet ouvrage, le premier entièrement consacré à Pierre Manent, aborde les grands thèmes de son œuvre, autour de trois axes : la philosophie, la politique et la religion. Il examine également les principales étapes de la pensée politique : Aristote, Machiavel, Pascal, Tocqueville… L’histoire et la philosophie politique éclairent les enjeux du présent, en particulier la crise de la démocratie et de la nation en Europe. Pour Pierre Manent et ceux qui s’en inspirent, la politique constitue le fait générateur des sociétés humaines. Elle façonne l’humanité de l’homme, qui se réalise dans la vie en commun. Aller vers la politique, c’est aller vers l’âme. Une incitation à lire et relire une œuvre forte et pénétrante.

Political science --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Science Theory --- Philosophy --- Manent, Pierre. --- Political philosophy --- Empire romain --- Aristote --- Manent --- chrétienneté --- politique