As with the first volume, Volume Two of Economic and Financial Modeling with Mathematica is edited by Hal Varian, and its contributors are carefully selected by him to assure a high quality, practical work reflecting the efforts and expertise of an international cadre of Mathematica users from the economic, financial, investments, quantitative business and operations research communities.

Table of Contents

Contents: Monte Carlo Studies w/ Mathematica .- Implementing Numerical Option Pricing Models.- Linear Programming.- Auctions.- Interest Rates.- Simulating the Effect of Mergers Among Noncooperative Oligopolists.- Log Spectral Analysis of Financial Models and Data.- Perishable Asset Management.- Data Envelopment Analysis and Data Screening.- Manipulating Probability Distributions.- Nonconvex Optimization: Cost Allocation.