Matlab - for applications in Economics and Finance

MATLAB is a powerful software for numerical computations and data analysis in the scientific environment. Its usage is constantly increasing in the world of Economics and Financial Analysis, due to the possibility to express problems and their solutions mathematically and graphically.
This book is recommended to the students of the faculty of Economics, but it may be useful also to graduate students working in contexts that need numerical solutions of problems. It offers a clear and easy introduction to MATLAB and to its main applications in the economic and financial environment. 
The base elements of MATLAB are illustrated. Moreover, the book deals with the problem of finding the roots of an equation, the problem of portfolio optimization, Value at Risk, linear regression and curve fitting. Each subject is equipped with several examples and exercises with solution. 

 
Authors

Cristina Pocci is Ph. D. in Mathematical Models and Methods for Technology and Society. She has been tutor and professor on contract of Calculus and Mathematics in various departments of Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Sapienza, Roma Tre and LUISS Guido Carli.
Giulia Rotundo is an Associate Professor for Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance at the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Environment, and Finance, Sapienza University of Rome.
Roeland De Kok is specialized in geoinformatics and computer vision at the University of Monaco (DE). He has got the PhD in the group of Dr Binning, Nobel prize winner for automatic data mining. He is currently external consultant in Germany and in Poland for the program for Earth observation Copernicus (EC-ESA).

Il volume è disponibile anche in italiano: Matlab per le applicazioni economiche e finanziarie