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.