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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 3362821
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Book Information:

Authors: Jakša Cvitanić and Jianfeng Zhang
Title: Contract theory in continuous-time models
Additional book information: Springer Finance, Springer, Heidelberg, 2013, xii+255 pp., ISBN 978-3-642-14199-7, 978-3-642-14200-0

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Olympia Hadjiliadis
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Graduate Center, CUNY
    Email: ohadjiliadis@brooklyn.cuny.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (2015), 531-532
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2014-01479-X
    Published electronically: October 14, 2014
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society