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Pricing the future : finance, physics, and the 300-year journey to the Black-Scholes equation : a story of genius and discovery /

Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the "quants." Wall Street would never be the same. In Pricing the Future, fin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Szpiro, George, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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