Description
This book/software package divulges the combined knowledge of a whole international community of Mathematica users – from the fields of economics, finance, investments, quantitative business and operations research. The 23 contributors – all experts in their fields – take full advantage of the latest updates of Mathematica in their presentations and equip both current and prospective users with tools for professional, research and educational projects. The real-world and self-contained models provided are applicable to an extensive range of contemporary problems. The DOS disk contains Notebooks and packages which are also available online from the TELOS site. Economics.- 1 Linear Programming with Mathematica: The Simplex Algorithm.- 2 Linear Programming with Mathematica: Sensitivity Analysis.- 3 Optimization with Mathematica.- 4 Optimizing with Piecewise Smooth Functions.- 5 Data Screening and Data Envelopment Analysis.- 6 Efficiency in Production and Consumption.- 7 Cost Allocation.- 8 Simulating the Effects of Mergers Among Noncooperative Oligopolists.- Finance.- 9 Auctions.- 10 Yield Management.- 11 Implementing Numerical Option Pricing Models.- 12 YieldCurve.- Statistics.- 13 Log Spectral Analysis: Variance Components of Asset Prices.- 14 Data Analysis Using Mathematica.- 15 Doing Monte Carlo Studies with Mathematica.- 16 Random[Title]: Manipulating Probability Density Functions.
