TY - BOOK ID - 80733312 TI - Stock markets : emergence, macroeconomic factors and recent developments AU - Petroni, Filippo. AU - Prattico, Flavio. AU - D'Amico, Guglielmo. PY - 2013 SN - 9781628089233 1628089237 9781628087512 162808751X PB - Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., DB - UniCat KW - Stock exchanges KW - Stocks KW - Stock prices KW - Stockholder wealth KW - Bulls and bears KW - Commercial corners KW - Corners, Commercial KW - Equity markets KW - Exchanges, Securities KW - Exchanges, Stock KW - Securities exchanges KW - Stock-exchange KW - Stock markets KW - Capital market KW - Efficient market theory KW - Speculation KW - Prices KW - E-books KW - Stock exchanges. KW - Prices. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80733312 AB - Much effort has gone into the study of financial markets and how prices vary with time. The usual approach of random walk is known to be inadequate to fully describe price dynamics. In this book, many different approaches are provided that use alternative and more adequate models. This book also examines the renewal theory in actuarial science. A simple actuarial model can be simulated well by means of this kind of stochastic process. A method dealing with the numerical solution of the renewal equation is presented. In addition, based on a theoretical model for opinion spreading on a network, ER -