Chamfort and the French Revolution by McCallam, D

“…<br/> Previous studies have tended either to interpret Chamfort’s works from their historical or biographical context, or – by considering exclusively the <em>Maximes et pensées</em> – to subordinate them to an established literary tradition. …”

Stochastic Volatility: Selected Readings

“…Collects sixteen of the main papers that have influenced the econometrics of stochastic volatility, which is associated with financial economics and mathematical finance. Papers discuss a subordinated stochastic process model with finite variance for speculative prices; a study of daily sugar prices, 1961-79; the behavior of random variables with nonstationary variance and the distribution of security prices; the pricing of options on assets with stochastic volatilities; the dynamics of exchange rate volatility; multivariate stochastic variance models; stochastic autoregressive volatility; long memory in continuous-time stochastic volatility models; Bayesian analysis of stochastic volatility models; stochastic volatility, likelihood inference, and a comparison with ARCH models; estimation of stochastic volatility models with diagnostics; pricing foreign currency options with stochastic volatility; a closed-form solution for options with stochastic volatility, with applications to bond and currency options; a unified approach to the joint estimation of objective and risk neutral measures for the purpose of options valuation; the distribution of realized exchange rate volatility; and econometric analysis of realized volatility and its use in estimating stochastic volatility models. …”

Al-Quran as a source of knowledge : a theological perspective in early Islam by Ishak, Mohd. Shuhaimi

“…The book aims at analysing the facts of the earlier stage of Islam on the problems on the concept of faith, and the later stage the rise of the Sunni scholars and jurists often scarcely distinguished in theearly centuries, realised that being plainly subordination to Allah is absolute. They rose to the occasion and led the majority of the Muslims to a remarkable level of understanding and unity in the main issues of faith. …”
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