Abstract
In 1971 floating exchanged rates replaced fixed exchange rates, originally agreed upon in 1944 in Bretton Woods. Since then both financial modelling and financial management have undergone an unprecedented development, fed and facilitated by the liberalisation and globalisation of financial markets, the diffusion of information technologies, the progress made by financial information services. This electronic book is consistent with such a development. It allows a twofold course of reading: the theoretical one as well as the operational one. The former is about analytical processes or statistical enquiries, whereas the latter is about financial contracts, financial transaction, and business practice. The approach is rigorous yet both practical and multidisciplinary, reference being made to business economics, industrial economics, and financial economics.