Kevin Dowd Books
The Experience Of Free Banking
By Kevin Dowd, Kevin Dowd (Edt)
For many years, the philosophy of central banking reigned supreme, and was virtually unquestioned despite its shortcomings. Yet these problems--especially the inability to produce currency that doe...
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Measuring Market Risk
By Kevin Dowd, Dowd
This book offers an extensive and up-to-date review of market risk measurement, focusing particularly on the estimation of value at risk (VaR) and expected tail loss (ETL). Measuring Marke...
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The Fourth Of July
By Kevin, Kevin Dowd, Dowd, Dowd, Kevin, 1959-
Now available as an (http://www.kevindowd.com/audio-4th.html) audio book . "It's summer 1974 on an island off the coast of Connecticut, and all Jack Smith wants is a vacation like he enjoyed in his...
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Money And The Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government, And The World Monetary System
By N/A, Kevin Dowd, Jr., Richard Timberlake, Kevin Dowd, Merton Miller
Monetary and banking problems in the world today arise not so much from the failure of specific policies as from more deep-seated problems in institutional structures. Individuals clearly make mist...
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Money And The Nation State: The Financial Revolution, Government And The World Monetary System
By Kevin Dowd, Jr., Richard Timberlake, Kevin Dowd, Merton Miller
Monetary and banking problems in the world today arise not so much from the failure of specific policies as from more deep-seated problems in institutional structures. Individuals clearly make mist...
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Getting Connected: The Internet At 56K And Up
By Kevin Dowd, Kevin Dowd, Kevin Dowd
Everywhere you turn — newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, even eavesdropping at the local coffee shop — the news is inescapable: The nation is hooking up to the Internet. Business people who se...
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High Performance Computing
By Kevin Dowd, Charles Severance, Charles Severance, Kevin Dowd
The computing power that's available on the average desktop has exploded in the past few years. A typical PC has performance exceeding that of a multi-million dollar supercomputer a mere decade ago...
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The VAR Implementation Handbook, Chapter 2 - Efficient VaR: Using Past Forecast Performance To Generate Improved VaR Forecasts
By Kevin Dowd, Greg N. Gregoriou
The following is a chapter from The VaR Implementation Handbook, which examines the latest strategies for measuring, managing, and modeling risk across a variety of applications. Packed with the in...
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New Private Monies
By Kevin Dowd, Dowd (Kevin), Kevin Dowd Durham University
Kevin Dowd argues that states must allow a level playing field as far as private money is concerned. For too long the government has stifled competition between state-backed and private currencies....
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Experience Of Free Banking
By Kevin Dowd, DOWD, Howard Bodenhorn
The Experience of Free Banking outlines a monetary system where private banks issue competing banknotes, usually anchored to a commodity like gold or silver, replacing the central bank’s role. This...
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