Practical Financial Optimization: Decision Making for Financial Engineers

© 2007 by Stavros A. Zenios

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First published 2007 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

1 2007

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zenios, Stavros Andrea.

      Practical financial optimization: decision making for financial engineers/

      Stavros A. Zenios.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3200-8 (hardback)

ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3201-5 (paperback)

1. Financial engineering. 2. Finance—Mathematical models. 3. Mathematical optimization.

I. Title.

HG176.7.Z46 2007

658.15'5–dc22

2006025668

A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

Set in 10pt Times Roman

by Stavros A. Zenios, Nicosia, Cyprus.

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