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FINANCIAL MARKET DYNAMICS: ESSAYS IN THE HONOR OF PASCAL ALPHONSE
Financial Market Dynamics connects asset pricing, market microstructure, banking, corporate finance, and macro-financial dynamics to inform readers about how risk, information, and shocks propagate across interconnected markets and institutions.As an edited volume dedicated to the memory of Professor Pascal Alphonse, this book reflects the intellectual themes that shaped his research — empirical precision, institutional awareness, and concern for financial stability. The contributions herein combine rigorous empirical analysis with theoretical insights to offer both methodological depth and substantive relevance. Many of the chapters revisit traditional factor models and investigate the dynamics of risk, volatility, and uncertainty across increasingly interconnected markets, while others focus on macro-financial interactions, reflecting on topics such as inflation dynamics, structural shocks, financial inclusion, and the cyclical nature of systemic risk.Despite their diversity in methods and research questions, the chapters share a common objective: to better understand how financial markets, institutions, and firms interact within evolving regulatory, institutional, and macroeconomic environments. Collectively, they provide insights into core themes of contemporary financial research, including information quality, portfolio choice, market efficiency, and financial stability.This book is particularly timely in addressing contemporary issues such as systemic risk, monetary transmission, financial inclusion, and market volatility in an era of global uncertainty. By combining cutting-edge research with a coherent conceptual perspective, the volume provides valuable insights for academics, graduate students, and policymakers interested in the evolving structure and stability of financial systems.
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Essays on Financial Analytics
This book covers recent research advances, methods and techniques, applications and projects in financial analytics, with a focus on the effects of the health crisis on banking activities and financial engineering. It explores the latest developments in banking regulation, banking and financial systems, financial engineering, and corporate finance in order to provide financial analytics that assess financial stability and sustainability. Written for researchers and practitioners alike, the book is intended to promote stimulating scientific exchanges, ideas and experiences in the field of financial analytics for economics and management.
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Pascal: Reasoning and Belief
This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound—and in places to criticize—what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological presuppositions of Pascal's project, the present volume draws the distinction between convictions attained by reason and those inspired by God-given faith. It also presents Pascal's view of thecontradictions within human nature, between the 'wretchedness' (our inability to live the life of reason, to attain secure and durable happiness) and the 'greatness' (the power of thought, manifested in the very awareness of our wretchedness). His mind-body dualism and his mechanistic conception of non-human animalsare discussed. Pascal invokes the biblical story of the Fall and the doctrine of original sin as the only credible explanation of these contradictions. His analysis of human occupations as powered by the twin desire to escape from painful thoughts and to gratify one's vanity is subjected to critical examination, as is his conception of the self and self-love. Pascal argues that just as Christianity propounds the only explanation for the human condition, so it offers the only kind of happinessthat would satisfy our deepest longings. He thus reasons that we have an interest in investigating its truth-claims as rooted in the Bible and in history. The closing chapters of this book discuss Pascal's view of Christian morality and the famous 'wager' argument for opting in favour of Christianbelief.
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Heart of Pascal
Originally published in 1945, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Apology of Pascal (1942); both volumes were formed using selections from Pascal's Pensées. The text contains his meditations and prayers, notes for his anti-Jesuit campaign, and remarks on language and style. An index and preface by the editor are also provided. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his late thought.
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Pascal
Ever since the edifying life written by his sister in the months after his death, canonical representations of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) have revered him for the scientific genius of his youth, the religious conversions of his mid-life, and the great books and greater saintliness of his last years. All this monumentalizes the hero, but it also reduces the man to a mind and spirit and it divides his life and work into unrelated halves. The preeminent specialist, Jean Mesnard, still picks up the subject where Gilberte Pascal left it in 1662. No historian in our language has even attempted to put the halves together again. In Pascal: The Man and His Two Loves, John R. Cole reintegrates a life that began with familial attachments and achieved youthful marvels of invention and experiment with an Arithmetic Machine and Vacuum Experiments; Cole argues that love for his father spun the wheels and filled the void. Pascal then converted, having suffered particularly painful separations and losses; Cole's central chapters adapt Freudian methods to relate his newly ardent love of God to his prior love of parents. Finally, the convert wrote contrasting classics, the Provincial Letters and the Penses, before years of sanctified suffering terminated his work; Cole suggests that disciplined study of his affective life makes possible new readings of these great books.
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Illustrating Pascal
This book, written entirely by hand, is an introduction to programming in Pascal. It starts with the fundamental concept of a stored program and works through to the manipulation of records in dynamic storage. The style of presentation is pictorial. This book may be used as a self-contained reference manual for Pascal to BS 6192 and ISO 7185. Besides defining the statements and structures of Pascal this book illustrates the use of such features in small but complete programs. These programs introduce fundamental techniques of programming such as symbol-state tables, bubble sort, quicksoft, stacks and queues, reverse Polish notation, linked lists, shortest-route technique, doubly linked rings, binary trees, hashing technique and other tools of the programmer's trade.
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