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3 | (2) |
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5 | (10) |
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2.1 Stocks and Other Tradeable Goods |
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6 | (1) |
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8 | (1) |
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2.5 Discounting and Liquidity |
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9 | (1) |
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2.6 Efficient Market Hypothesis |
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10 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (4) |
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13 | (2) |
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3 Portfolio Theory and CAPM |
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15 | (14) |
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3.1 Variational Calculus and Lagrange Multipliers |
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16 | (2) |
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3.2 Portfolio with Risky Assets Only |
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18 | (3) |
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3.3 Portfolio with a Risk-Free Asset |
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21 | (1) |
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3.4 Capital Market Line and Sharpe Ratio |
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22 | (2) |
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3.5 Capital Asset Pricing Model |
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24 | (2) |
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26 | (3) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (18) |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (1) |
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4.3 Diffusion Processes and Green's Functions |
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33 | (3) |
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4.4 Stochastic Integrals and Ito's Lemma |
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36 | (1) |
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4.5 Master and Fokker-Planck Equations |
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37 | (3) |
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4.6 A First Look at Option Pricing |
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40 | (4) |
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4.7 Digression on Expectation Values |
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44 | (3) |
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45 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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5 Black-Scholes Differential Equation |
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47 | (12) |
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47 | (2) |
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49 | (3) |
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5.3 Risk-Neutrality and Martingales |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (3) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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6 The Greeks and Risk Management |
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59 | (10) |
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59 | (3) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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6.4 Tailoring Risk to One's Desire |
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64 | (5) |
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68 | (1) |
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7 Regression Models and Hypothesis Testing |
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69 | (22) |
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7.1 Regression and Linear Fitting |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (4) |
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76 | (1) |
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7.5 Student's t-Distribution |
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79 | (5) |
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7.6 Hypothesis Testing and p-Values |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (3) |
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88 | (3) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (22) |
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8.1 Trend and Seasonality |
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92 | (2) |
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94 | (2) |
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8.3 Auto-Covariance and Autocorrelation |
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96 | (3) |
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8.4 Partial Autocorrelation Function |
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99 | (2) |
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8.5 Determining the Model Coefficients |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (3) |
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106 | (7) |
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111 | (1) |
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111 | (2) |
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9 Bubbles, Crashes, Fat Tails and Levy-Stable Distributions |
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113 | (32) |
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9.1 Historical Bubbles and Crashes |
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114 | (2) |
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9.2 Bubble-Crash Mechanisms |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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9.4 Fat-Tailed Distributions |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (3) |
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123 | (4) |
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9.7 Sums of Random Numbers |
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127 | (3) |
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9.8 Levy-Stable Distributions |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (6) |
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9.10 Finite-Time Divergence and Log-Periodic Oscillations |
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138 | (7) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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10 Quantum Finance and Path Integrals |
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145 | (26) |
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146 | (2) |
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10.2 Black-Scholes Hamiltonian |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (5) |
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10.5 Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics |
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156 | (4) |
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10.6 Path Integrals in Finance |
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160 | (4) |
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10.7 Monte-Carlo Integration |
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164 | (3) |
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10.8 Numerical Evaluation of Path Integrals |
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167 | (4) |
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170 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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11 Optimal Control Theory |
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171 | (22) |
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11.1 Macroeconomic Models |
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172 | (6) |
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11.2 Control and Feedback |
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178 | (3) |
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11.3 Hamiltonian Mechanics |
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181 | (1) |
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11.4 Hamiltonians for Optimal Control |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (3) |
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11.6 Linear Quadratic Regulators |
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187 | (2) |
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11.7 Controlling the Robinson-Crusoe Economy |
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189 | (4) |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (40) |
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12.1 Information, Probabilities, and Codes |
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195 | (3) |
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12.2 Relation to the Thermodynamic Entropy |
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198 | (1) |
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12.3 Moving Information Through Discrete Channels |
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199 | (5) |
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12.4 Continuous Information Channels |
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204 | (3) |
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12.5 Cryptography Fundamentals |
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207 | (4) |
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12.6 Early Public-Key Systems |
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211 | (3) |
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12.7 Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
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214 | (4) |
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12.8 Bitcoins and Blockchains |
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218 | (3) |
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12.9 Ethereum and Smart Contracts |
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221 | (3) |
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224 | (9) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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13 Solutions for Selected Exercises |
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233 | (28) |
Appendix A On the Independence of Certain Random Variables |
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261 | (4) |
Appendix B Software |
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265 | (16) |
Index |
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