Books : Business, Economics, and Finance with Matlab, GIS, and Simulation Models
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by: Patrick L. Anderson
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.50113
EAN: 9781584883487
ISBN: 1584883480
Label: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 504
Publication Date: April 15, 2004
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Sales Rank: 553095
Studio: Chapman & Hall/CRC
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This book takes recent theoretical advances in Finance and Economics and shows how they can be implemented in the real world. It presents tactics for using mathematical and simulation models to solve complex tasks of forecasting income, valuing businesses, predicting retail sales, and evaluating markets and tax and regulatory problems.
Business Economics and Finance with Matlab, GIS, and Simulation Models provides a unique overview of sophisticated business and financial applications. It describes models that have been developed for analysis of retail sales, tax policy, location, economic impact, public policy issues, and other challenges faced by executives, investors, and economists on a daily basis. It also offers groundbreaking insight into the many calculation and modeling tools that can be remotely hosted and run over the Internet, resulting in substantial user benefits and cost savings.
This book is the first to fully explore the capabilities of MATLAB in the field of businesseconomics, and explain how the benefits of sophisticated mathematical models can be provided to users via the Internet, using a thin-client environment. Many techniques directly incorporate geographic information and GIS in a way that was impossible until quite recently. Some techniques, such as fuzzy logic, retail sales, economic and fiscal impact models, and other Matlab and Simulink models, are described for the first time in print in this book. The sections on business income and value break new ground by directly incorporating uncertainty, real option value, and prediction of variables using Ito and jump processes. Using dozens of examples, hundreds of references, and rigorous explanations of both theory and practice, it will become a prized reference for analysts demanding the best techniques.
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Rating:  - False advertising
Back cover introduces the author as 'the Founder and Principal of the Anderson Economic Group, a consulting firm with expertise in economics, finance, market research and public policy', and if that fails to impress you, use of 'stadia' as the plural of 'stadium' should.
This is a superficial book that mentions everything - from fuzzy logic to Ito's lemma - and knows what a Main Street economic consultant would. It fails with a zero score as an introduction to Matlab or Simulink: included ... Read More
Rating:  - A great book that fills the gap
As a doctoral student in Finance, I use Matlab a lot for modeling and computation. I had been searching for a reference book that can help me build simulation models using SIMULINK. But the only books available are in specialized fields such as physics or engineering. Patrick Anderson's book attract me immediately by its title. A combination of MATLAB, SIMULATION, GIS and Economics-- that's exactly what I was looking for. It managed to keep up with my high expectation with its highly informative content. ... Read More
Rating: - Guide to multifaceted simulation analysis
This book appeals to me for several reasons. It discusses sophisticated methods of valuing business enterprises, and critiques competing models with a matter-of-course approach. The reader is given the perspective and reference to related work. Pitfalls of prejudiced and lackadaisical estimation are shown with neat examples.
On the technical side, experienced MatLab users find good ready-to-implement tools, code segments, and references in the book. The book encourages the use of simulation analysis, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent instruction and reference
Anderson's book is equal parts course and reference guide for using Matlab and simulation models for business and economic analysis. It offers material for both those who have a strong understanding of the programs (though may be relatively new to economic, financial, or market analysis), and those who are just getting started with the program.
The book's greatest strength is the material on Matlab and simulation modeling, combined with the insight the author provides from his extensive experience as ... Read More
Rating: - Great book for business economists
Most of the applied economic and finance books using a complicated software are very technical and not practical at all. Even though Anderson's book is very technical, it is very practical for business economics. Anderson's book is well-written and sophisticated but easy-to-read and follow. As a MATLAB user, I think this book is very helpful and user-friendly. Anderson provides many real-life examples from his work engagements. This will be one of the pillar books in every business economists' library.
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