Handbook of Financial Engineering

• Portfolio Management and Trading.- Portfolio Selection in the Presence of Multiple Criteria.- Applications of Integer Programming to Financial Optimization.- Computing Mean/Downside Risk Frontiers: The Role of Ellipticity.- Exchange Traded Funds: History, Trading, and Research.- Genetic Programming and Financial Trading: How Much About "What We Know".- Risk Management.- Interest Rate Models: A Review.- Engineering a Generalized Neural Network Mapping of Volatility Spillovers in European Government Bond Markets.- Estimating Parameters in a Pricing Model with State-Dependent Shocks.- Controlling Currency Risk with Options or Forwards.- Operations Research Methods in Financial Engineering.- Asset Liability Management Techniques.- Advanced Operations Research Techniques in Capital Budgeting.- Financial Networks.- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Credit Risk Ratings.- The Choice of the Payment Method in Mergers and Acquisitions.- An Application of Support Vector Machines in the Prediction of Acquisition Targets: Evidence from the EU Banking Sector.- Credit Rating Systems: Regulatory Framework and Comparative Evaluation of Existing Methods.

From the reviews: "Handbook of Financial Engineering is a collection of papers from various areas of the field including Portfolio Management and Trading, Risk Management, Operations Research Methods in Financial Engineering, and Mergers, Acquisitions and Credit Risk Ratings. The papers are in narrative form, discussing the main current issues in the selected areas. ... Discussions are at the introductory level, which should seem very inviting to students and readers who are new to the field and need an overview of the methods currently used." (Ita Cirovic Donev, The Mathematical Association of America, September, 2008)