There are 6 books in the World Scientific Handbook in Financial Economics series. The newest book is Handbook of Applied Investment Research which came out in 2020.

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The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion

By Leonard C Maclean (editor) , Edward O Thorp (editor) , William T Ziemba (editor)

Book cover of The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion
This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune's formula or the Kelly capital growth criterion as it is often called. The strategy is to maximize long run wealth of the investor by maximizing the period by period expected utility of wealth with a logarithmic utility function. Mathematical theorems show that…
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2
Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making

By Leonard C Maclean (editor) , William T Ziemba (editor) ,

Book cover of Handbook of the Fundamentals of Financial Decision Making
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.Part I is concerned with Decision Making…

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The World Scientific Handbook of Futures Markets

By Anastasios G Malliaris (editor), William T Ziemba (editor) ,

Book cover of The World Scientific Handbook of Futures Markets
The World Scientific Handbook of Futures Markets serves as a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in futures markets. The emphasis is on the unique characteristics of futures markets that make them worthy of a special volume. In our judgment, futures markets are currently undergoing remarkable changes as trading…

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World Scientific Reference on Handbook of the Economics of Wine

By Orley Ashenfelter (editor), Olivier Gergaud (editor), Karl Storchmann (editor) , William T Ziemba (editor)

Book cover of World Scientific Reference on Handbook of the Economics of Wine
Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization. Wine has a few characteristics that differentiate it from other agricultural commodities, rendering it an interesting topic for economists…

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Handbook of Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Asset Management and Risk Management

By Michele Leonardo Bianchi (editor), Stoyan V Stoyanov (editor), Gian Luca Tassinari (editor) , Frank J Fabozzi (editor) , Sergio Focardi (editor)

Book cover of Handbook of Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Asset Management and Risk Management
The study of heavy-tailed distributions allows researchers to represent phenomena that occasionally exhibit very large deviations from the mean. The dynamics underlying these phenomena is an interesting theoretical subject, but the study of their statistical properties is in itself a very useful endeavor from the point of view of managing…

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Handbook of Applied Investment Research

By John B Guerard Jr (editor), William T Ziemba (editor) ,

Book cover of Handbook of Applied Investment Research
This book introduces the readers to the rapidly growing literature and latest results on financial, fundamental and seasonal anomalies, stock selection modeling and portfolio management. Fifty years ago, finance professors taught the Efficient Markets Hypothesis which states that the average investor could not outperform the stock market based on technical,…