Thursday, October 28, 2004

Lay, Back and Think of Winning
Author:Nigel Paul

- Nigel Paul retired early from position of CEO of one of our national TV networks.
- He now makes a more comfortable living trading on the betting exchange.
- The book GUARANTEES readers will be winners.
- When word gets out, everyone will buy the book, won't they?
- This will be the first book to explain betting exchange oportunities.
- Betting volume is forecast to grow three-fold in the next five years.
- The system has been tested long and hard, day and night!
- The system works.

The Democratic Enterprise
Author:Lynda Gratton

Smart people want a more grown-up relationship with their employers these days. And most businesses too, realize that they can get more from people with more flexible and intelligent working relationships.

So imagine a company where people have more freedom in how, where and when they work. Where they have more personal choice in their work, but also share more committment with their colleagues to a bigger purpose.

This text shows you how to use some of the basic principles of democracy to build organizations of which we can be proud. At an operational level it is a book about choice, about the choice individuals make and the latitude of discretion created within organizations to support these choices.

The book examines eight companies pioneered choice and democracy and shows how companies like BP, McKinsey, Unisys and Goldman Sachs and strengthening employee engagement and collaboration by developing working relationships and working practices based on choice - by supporting the freedom they have. It is a blueprint for a business based on choice and committment.

Day Trading E-Mini S&P Futures DVD
Author:Malcolm Robinson;

The "Day Trading E-Mini S&P Futures" DVD presents a trading strategy based on timeless and powerful market principles that captures explosive, short term, intraday moves.

• Learn how to scalp the market with a counter-trend technique that offers multiple intraday trading opportunities.
• Discover how to read volume and use it to anticipate turning points in the market.
• The DVD assumes a basic understanding of the Futures Markets and the various market orders.

Thursday, October 14, 2004

Quantitative Financial Economics
Author:Keith Cuthbertson;

This new edition of the hugely successful Quantitative Financial Economics has been revised and updated to reflect the most recent theoretical and econometric/empirical advances in the financial markets. It provides an introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on discrete time series analysis. Emphasis is placed on theory, testing and explaining 'real-world' issues.

The new edition includes:
- Updated charts and cases studies.
- New companion website allowing students to put theory into practice and to test their knowledge through questions and answers.
- Chapters on Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrapping and market microstructure.
European Integration
Author:Jacques Pelkmans;

European Integration: Methods and Economic Analysis combines economic analysis of integration with a detailed knowledge of the integration methods employed in the European Union. The analysis of economic integration includes questions such as how to design proper regulatory and policy frameworks for various intensities of economic integration and the assessment of the costs and benefits of alternative integration methods, proposed or applied within the EU. The practical application of such analysis is demonstrated throughout the book both in the policy-oriented chapters and in a series of specially written case studies integrated into the text.

The Economics of Exchange Rates
Author:Jeffrey A. Frankel;Lucio Sarno;Mark P. Taylor

In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating the large amount of empirical work on exchange rates in this period. Nonetheless, while our understanding of exchange rates has significantly improved, a number of challenges and open questions remain in the exchange rate debate, enhanced by events including the launch of the Euro and the large number of recent currency crises.

This volume provides a selective coverage of the literature on exchange rates, focusing on developments from within the last fifteen years. Clear explanations of theories are offered, alongside an appraisal of the literature and suggestions for further research and analysis.

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Co-integration in Econometric Analysis
Author:Richard Harris

Co-integration has become an essential tool for applied economists wanting to estimate time series models, and the technique is finding its way onto the core syllabus in standard econometrics courses. This book introduces co-integration techniques at a very moderate technical level. Testing for (co)integration is explained thoroughly with plenty of examples which emphasize how the tests are actually performed.

Features:
- "Toolkit" approach with an emphasis on practice and the actual tests used.
- Covers the Engle-Granger procedure.
- Covers the Johansen technique.
- Overview of structural VAR modelling.
- Advanced and difficult concepts presented in technical boxes thus preserving the flow of exposition.
- Boxed examples throughout.

Directory of Fund of Hedge Funds 2004
Many industry observers would agree that fund of hedge funds have become mainstream investment vehicles. Industry estimates for the size of the fund of hedge funds sector range from 1300 and 1500 funds with assets under management between USD 100 and USD 130 billion. Individual investors and pension funds alike are clamoring to put money into fund of hedge funds.

The third edition of the Fund of Hedge Funds Directory is a thoroughly prepared and objectively researched study of the fund of hedge funds universe. From information on individual fund of hedge funds or the hedge funds they invest in, to complete and updated contact information, this year's edition covers an 600 funds of hedge funds on a global scale including both onshore and offshore funds.

The Directory will benefit both investors and managers. Investors will be able to research fund of hedge funds investment options, improve transparency, examine how fund of fund managers handle asset allocation, and get access to the largest list of fund of hedge funds. Managers, on the other hand, will be able to benchmark their own fund against others funds and undertake market intelligence of the fund of hedge funds market. The Directory is only available to accredited investors.



Introduction to MATLAB 6
Author:Delores Etter;David Kuncicky;Doug Hull

For 1st year or Introductory courses in Engineering and Computer Science. Part of ESource - Prentice Halls Engineering Source - this text provides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 28 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project.

Estimation and Inference in Econometrics
Author:Russell Davidson;James MacKinnon

Davidson and MacKinnon have written a textbook for graduates in econometrics, covering both basic and advanced topics and using geometrical proofs throughout for clarity of exposition. The book offers a unified theoretical perspective, and emphasizes the practical applications of modern theory.

Atlas Shrugged
Author:Ayn Rand;

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?

Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies but against those who needed him most--and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor--and the motive power of every man?

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life--from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy...to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction...to the philosopher who becomes a pirate...to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad...to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's masterpiece. It is a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller.