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Uncertainty and risk are issues that virtually every business analyst must deal with, sooner or later. The consequences of not properly estimating and dealing with risk can be devastating. There’s a ...

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Munich-based Thetaris has announced the laucnh of Theta Suite XL, a Microsoft Excel toolkit designed specifically for Monte Carlo simulation. The toolkit uses a proprietary coding language, ThetaML, ...

The Monte Carlo simulation technique, named for the famous Monaco gambling resort, originated during World War II as a way to model potential outcomes from a random chain of events. It is particularly ...

This paper illustrates the manner in which two path dependent exotic options (Asian and Fixed Strike Lookback options) can be valued using Monte Carlo simulations on Excel. Though Excel is not a ...

Journal of Financial Education, Vol. 40, No. 1/2 (SPRING/SUMMER 2014), pp. 94-114 (21 pages) There is a lack of coverage of an application of Monte Carlo simulation in capital budgeting in ...