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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 ...
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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 ...
A general approach to improving simulation accuracy uses information about auxiliary control variables with known expected values to improve the estimation of unknown quantities. We analyze weighted ...