The Best of Wilmott 1: Incorporating the Quantitative Finance Review

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November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster of speakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to bright young things, discussing the latest developments, with a specific emphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You really had to be there. Until now, at least.
The Best of Wilmott 1: Including the latest research from Quantitative Finance Review 2003 contains these first-class articles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with a collection of selected technical papers from Wilmott magazine. In publishing this book we hope to share some of the great insights that, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and give you some idea why Wilmott magazine is the most talked about periodical in the market.
Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, Marc Potters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a must for anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. The articles cover a wide range of topics:
* Psychology in Financial Markets
* Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility
* The Equity-to-Credit Problem
* Introducing Variety in Risk Management
* The Art and Science of Curve Building
* Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk
* Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis
* Cliquet Options and Volatility Models
And as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies The Best of Wilmott... will return on an annual basis.

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November 11th 2003 saw a landmark event take place in London. As the first conference designed for quants by quants the Quantitative Finance Review 2003, moved away from the anonymous bazaars that have become the norm, and instead delivered valuable information to market practitioners with the greatest interest. The roster of speakers was phenomenal, ranging from founding fathers to bright young things, discussing the latest developments, with a specific emphasis on the burgeoning field of credit derivatives. You really had to be there. Until now, at least. The Best of Wilmott 1: Including the latest research from Quantitative Finance Review 2003 contains these first-class articles, originally presented at the QFR 2003, along with a collection of selected technical papers from Wilmott magazine. In publishing this book we hope to share some of the great insights that, until now, only delegates at QFR 2003 were privy to, and give you some idea why Wilmott magazine is the most talked about periodical in the market. Including articles from luminaries such as Ed Thorp, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Philipp Schoenbucher, Pat Hagan, Ephraim Clark, Marc Potters, Peter Jaeckel and Paul Wilmott, this collection is a must for anyone working in the field of quantitative finance. The articles cover a wide range of topics: * Psychology in Financial Markets * Measuring Country Risk as Implied Volatility * The Equity-to-Credit Problem * Introducing Variety in Risk Management * The Art and Science of Curve Building * Next Generation Models for Convertible Bonds with Credit Risk * Stochastic Volatility and Mean-variance Analysis * Cliquet Options and Volatility Models And as they say at the end of (most) Bond movies The Best of Wilmott... will return on an annual basis.

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Briefs of Leading Cases in Law Enforcement
Rolando V. Del Carmen
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good source for law students.......1999-10-29

I am a pre-law/ criminal justice student, and this book made case studies easy

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This book critically examines the progress made on macroeconomic stabilization and financial sector reform in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. It relates microeconomic experiences to the broader macroeconomic context of reform, and emphasizes that macro reform is underpinned by micro and institutional reform, especially in the financial sphere. Key features include: bank and enterprise restructuring and the progress towards the resolution of banking and bad debt problems implications of bank and enterprise restructuring for corporate governance and company performance an evaluation of bank-enterprise relationships exchange rates and capital flows, with an analysis of the capital inflow problem and the performance of fixed exchange rate regimes in the post-stabilization phase of the transition detailed surveys of individual firm and bank behavior and performance during the reform process. The book will be welcomed by scholars and practitioners interested in monetary and financial economics, the economics of transition and comparative economic systems.

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In the highly competitive marketplace of the '90s, the focus has shifted from making a sale today to making sure the customer is happy tomorrow. Michaelson, an author/columnist and a sales and marketing professional, offers real-world advice in this concise guide to the "new" fundamentals of successful selling.

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50 Ways To Close A Sale.......2001-02-19

As a Sales Manager I found this audio book to be a valuable sales tool. I highly recommend it to anyone in sales, no matter what the product.

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Name the most successful companies over the last 10 years, and you'd be remiss if you didn't mention Microsoft. Guided by the unique--some would say maniacal--personality of founder Bill Gates, Microsoft has grown faster and touched more lives than just about any other company in recent memory. Over the years, the software giant has been dogged by competitors--mainly in backrooms and courtrooms-- and by the government on charges of unholy monopolies, predatory practices, and stifling innovation in the PC industry. As the government's ongoing antitrust case against Microsoft goes to trial, this critical chorus grows even louder, led in part by Wendy Goldman Rohm's book, The Microsoft File.

This is the book that Microsoft doesn't want you to read. With the help of "insider" information from both Microsoft and the government, Goldman Rohm surveys the history of Microsoft's business practices with PC manufacturers and software vendors. Tracing the development of the government's antitrust case against Microsoft, starting at the FTC and continuing on at the Justice Department, she paints a harsh and unforgiving picture that's not at all flattering to Gates or the rest of Microsoft's top brass. The Bill Gates that emerges from these pages is small, petty, and deeply paranoid. At the same time, she puts a face on the Justice Department that's never been seen before. For those who revel in examining the dark underbelly of America's most successful company, The Microsoft File is a required and enormously entertaining read. It's also a useful primer for anyone interested in the government's antitrust efforts. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

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The Microsoft File is an extraordinary fly-on-the-wall account of Microsoft's intent to monopolize the computer industry. Wendy Goldman Rohm takes you to the inner sanctum of Microsoft, has you sit in on meetings between Microsoft and important customers and competitors, and looks at the struggles of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice as they try to develop a strategy to counter one of the most serious charges of market manipulation since John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

The Microsoft File is based on information from not one but many "Deep Throats," as well as internal documents that tell a story of:

> How Microsoft's predatory marketing and pricing behavior belies its claims of fair competition.

> How Microsoft killed the market for a competitor's operating system, a system that could have challenged MS-DOS.

> How bugging devices were found in the hotel room of a supposed business partner of Microsoft's the day before a critical meeting with Microsoft.

> How Microsoft inserted hidden code in the beta version of Windows 3.1, creating fear in the marketplace that competing products would crash and adding a byte in the final version that was marketed so the hidden code wouldn't appear on the screen.

> How close Apple came to discarding the Macintosh operating system for Windows, and the real reason why Bill Gates decided to invest some $250 million in Apple.

> How Microsoft, despite nondisclosure agreements, obtained and used technological secrets from competitors.

> How the biggest mergers in the software industry unfolded, blow-by-blow, as Microsoft's competitors tried to survive the increasing power of the Gates juggernaut.

Is Microsoft's rise as the world's most powerful and successful company a classic example of the free market, as many Microsoft apologists contend? Is its success, and the failure of other companies, the result of the creative destruction that makes capitalism so strong? The Microsoft File suggests that other forces were at work.

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A little too tabloidish for my taste........2003-04-08

I bought this book hoping to find the real "case against Bill Gates", or more specifically against Microsoft. Goodness knows he and his cronies made plenty of secret business deals that, exposed to the light of day, would really damage the company. A book detailing (and, more importantly, documenting) all these things I've been trying to tell people for years would at the least make me seem less of a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist among my peers.

But, unfortunately, this book seems to concentrate mainly on what kind of a person Bill Gates is, including a truly baffling amount of coverage of Bill's courting of some woman who worked for Microsoft. I don't care about that [stuff]; I want to see the LEGAL case against him, not things that belong in the gossip column.

Thus disillusioned, I never finished the book, so for all I know it may contain what I hoped to find, but if so, it's not in the first half of the book.

Poorly researched, poorly written.......2002-04-23

I approached this book expecting to get a good overview of the case against Microsoft. Instead, the author spends the vast majority of the book spewing out allegations using adjectives that can hardly hide her personal opinions and which she rarely backs up with facts. There are so many obvious opportunities where a little additional research could have provided a more damning case that by page 100 my mind was screaming for me to simply throw the book away.

But I did, unfortunately, finish the book. It didn't get better. An example of a quick-to-market book focusing on breathless speculation rather than fact. Don't waste your money or your time if you're doing your own research on the topic.

Try Another Anti-Gates Work First.......2002-04-20

With its `The Secret Case Against Bill Gates' subtitle and its early invocation of the obvious Rockefeller parallel this little book seems at first glance to be dynamite. Unfortunately it is marred by exceptionally poor writing. Choppy, confusing and disorganized, the author's continual shifting between places and times is disconcerting to the point of madness. Characters are introduced seemingly at random, often without a clear explanation of the relationship to the story or anything else. Facts are tossed about without any connection to anything, and numerous stories are abandoned without an explanation of the outcome. One moment we are amidst debate before Judge Sporkin over alleged monopolistic practices of Big Bill and the next the Judge is gone, his decision rendered off camera, as if he were an unimportant character in a Shakespearean tragedy. One moment Lotus and Novell are at going full tilt against Microsoft the next they are defeated and out of the picture, with no real explanation of why. By the end, I simply did not care who the new characters were; I just wanted it to be over. More distracting is the author's affection for putting thoughts into the character's heads as if they were fictional. I highly doubt that Gates revealed his secret thoughts to Rohm. Indeed, her tendency for salacious tattle tailing is as annoying as it is distracting. I have no interest in the tawdry details of the sex lives of Microsoft execs; tell me about their business practices. Of course, there is a lot of interesting information here, if one can pierce the complex veil of confusion, it is clear that Microsoft's much ballyhooed monopolistic practices are far more destructive and pervasive than is generally believed. Indeed, one could use the book as a source for writing a detailed indictment of Gates and Co, assuming one had other sources. In fact, the book reads more like a first draft than a finished work, and not simply because of the abrupt ending,

Great book, the true story on Microsoft.......2001-12-05

I have been following Microsoft's anti-competitive practices since the early 90s and I can confirm that most of what is said on this book is true.

Don't read this if you are used to reading the usual pro-microsoft "Microsoft as role model" type marketing books that have been appearing lately.

The real Microsoft please stand up.......2000-07-12

I agree with the other reviewers that the author's writing style is tedious and pretentious. It takes a real Gates hater to get through this book. I loved it.

THE MICROSOFT FILE the Secret Case Against bill Gates

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THE MICROSOFT FILE the Secret Case Against bill Gates
Wendy Goldman Rohm
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Herbert A. Simon has been a leading contributor to cognitive psychology, computer science, public administration, philosophy and statistics, and is the winner of the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. As this authoritative collection demonstrates, his impact on economics has been felt in areas as diverse as the theory of the firm and economic organization, consumer behavior, law and economics, and environmental economics. Central to his work is the notion of bounded rationality - the mismatch between human decision-making capacities and the scale of the decision problems that people face, which results in satisficing rather than optimizing behavior - and his belief that economic research should start from the study of actual behavior rather than being based on convenient but unrealistic assumptions. Peter Earl's choice of articles shows both the kind of economics that emerges when Simon's philosophy is followed comprehensively, and what happens when neo-classical economists partially adopt his ideas.

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A lively and readable introduction to contemporary Africa, covering the whole continent from north to south. A majority of the contributors are Africans who have held senior positions in government and in international organizations. Rather than presenting narrow case studies, the various chapters attempt to paint a very broad picture of modern Africa while they discuss several examples in sufficient detail to make them memorable. In addition to forward-looking chapters on agricultural and economic change, authors focus on the exuberance of pro-democracy movements; problems of urban poverty; agricultural change at the village level; the growth in youth violence; renewed conflicts over ethnic identity; corruption at the highest levels; population growth outstripping resources; and religious fundamentalism among both Christians and Muslims.

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This book is the first book ever written on how to master emotional selling. This book will teach you how to connect with people at an emotional level and to get people to want to buy from you!

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This book has a lot to offer.......2005-02-28

Most books that you buy these days are either short stories passing themselves off as books, or they are printed promos for something else to buy. This book is one of the most complete how to books I have ever read and I have read a lot of books on selling. He even gives you the compete list of how to produce his handwritten note system. If you sell for a living or know someone who does, buy this book!

not very good.......2003-08-19

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Don't trust these reviews........2003-08-11

13 of 15 (or 87%) reviews to date were written on May 21, 2000. 3 of these were written by 'gary' who listed three different locations: Wayzata, MN, Bullard, TX and Solana Beach, CA. All 13 reviews were one or two liners with perfect 5 star ratings. One of them had the subject "This book is destined to be a classic!". I'm skeptical. Looks like someone is trying to game the system.

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Wow, life changing.......2000-08-20

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If you want to be more and have more, read this book!.......2000-05-21

Steven Lloyd has written a book that should be required reading by anyone who wants to succeed in business, relationships, selling or, life! If you want to do more, be more and have more; read this book!

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Role of Education Debt in Consumer's Total Debt Structure
Robert W. Johnson
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This powerful handbook will help you implement telephone selling techniques to manage customers and prospects while working with the field sales force... techniques that assure field sales support!

How To Integrate Field and Phone Selling will ...Show you how to implement a complimentary telephone selling operation that will keep the salespeople involved and participating. Teach you the three critical elements you have to address in integration to help assure success through support. Provide you an organization structure that can provide success both now and in the future. Identify some critical issues that you should consider when staffing the telephone selling operation. Demonstrate how compensation can be used to team the field and phone center staff and ensure they work together. Show you how to evaluate and select a database and automation system to support the integration effort.

Techniques that you can implement to improve customer service, lower selling costs and generate additional revenue can be found in this time-efficient handbook. Read it today and begin to successfully integrate tomorrow.

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This examination of developments in North-East Asian regionalism looks at security, international relations, international political economy and politics, together with historical, social and cultural factors.

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