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Finance --- Business & Economics --- Investment & Speculation

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This book addresses selected practical applications and recent developments in the areas of quantitative financial modeling in derivatives instruments, some of which are from the authors' own research and practice. While the primary scope of this book is the fixed-income market (with further focus on the interest rate market), many of the methodologies presented also apply to other financial markets, such as the credit, equity, and foreign exchange markets. This book, which assumes that the reader is familiar with the basics of stochastic calculus and derivatives modeling, is written from the

Derivative securities --- Finance --- Speculation --- Mathematical models.

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"Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively created markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the national economy. The history of farming in the Great Lakes region is described, with specific focus on the State of Michigan, viewed through a case study of Midland County. Inter and intra-state differences in soil endowments, public and private promoters of site-specific investment opportunities, time trends in settled populations and the experiences of individual investors are covered in detail."-Provided by publisher"--

Land speculation --- Agriculture and state --- History

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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressIn 1967, Edward Johnson II, founder of Fidelity Investments, Launed the Fidelity Contrafund in the hope of providing investors with an investment alternative that harnesses the power of the Theory of Contrary Opinion originated by Humphrey B. Neill, author of The Art of Contrary Thinking.Today, the Contrafund has over 60 Bn in assets. ""When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong"" is the quote that lies at the heart of Neill's in

Securities --- Stock exchanges --- Speculation. --- Bucket-shops --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Finance --- Gambling --- Commodity exchanges --- Contracts, Aleatory --- Investments --- Speculation --- E-books