Multicriteria decision aid/analysis in financeMulticriteria decision aid/analysis in finance Κεφάλαιο σε Βιβλίο Book Chapter 2018-11-272016enOver the past decades the complexity of financial decisions has increased rapidly, thus highlighting the importance of developing and implementing sophisticated and efficient quantitative analysis techniques for supporting and aiding financial decision making. Multicriteria decision aid (MCDA), an advanced branch of operations research, provides financial decision makers and analysts with a wide range of methodologies well-suited for the complexity of modern financial decision making. The aim of this chapter is to provide an in-depth presentation of the contributions of MCDA in finance focusing on the methods used, applications, computation, and directions for future research.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/International Series in Operations Research and Management ScienceMultiple Criteria Decision Analysis Spronk, Jaap Steuer Ralph E. Zopounidis Konstantinos Ζοπουνιδης Κωνσταντινος Springer New York LLC Finance Multicriteria decision aid Multiple criteria optimization Outranking relations Portfolio theory Preference disaggregation analysis