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The Complexity of Tax Simplification
Experiences From Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Simplicity in taxation has considerable potential advantages. However, attempts to simplify tax systems are only likely to be successful and enduring if they take account of the reasons why taxation is complex. There are strong pressures on tax systems to accommodate a range of important factors,...
Cosmopolitan Managers
Executive Development that Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Executive education is a billion dollar industry that has the potential to transform individual and organizational performance, but in too many cases the decision whether or not to lavish it upon any given manager comes down to whether the fear that they will leave if you don’t spend money on them...
by A., Adrian Furnham
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
A collection of engaging and thought-provoking essays looking at the world of business and management during a recession. Furnham takes a sideways look at some business issues that are often brushed under the carpet and examines recent academic contributions to business literature in an amusing and jargon-free style.
Managing eHealth
From Vision to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This book constitutes an excellent source of information for gaining a better understanding of information technologies in healthcare; for reviewing how healthcare will change as a consequence; and how to manage these changes in order to realise eHealth's full potential in creating value for patients, professionals and the system as a whole.
Building Digital Ecosystem Architectures
A Guide to Enterprise Architecting Digital Technologies in the Digital Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The design of digital solutions has become a pressing concern for practitioners faced with a plethora of technology impacting their business. From cloud computing to social networks, mobile computing and big data, to the emerging of Internet of things, all of which are changing how enterprise products,...
Industrial Dynamics in China and India
Firms, Clusters, and Different Growth Paths
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
This book is one of the first fully-fledged studies to examine the next world-class industrial leaders emerging from China and India; exploring the domestic and international factors that have led to their rise, and comparing their experiences with other East Asian late-comers such as Japan.
by Marian Noga, Konrad Raczkowski, Jarosław Klepacki
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
With globalisation comes an increase in the threat from systemic risk. As national economies become more globally entwined many argue that insufficient attention is being given to systemic risk; a principal contributor to recent economic crises. Focusing on the Polish financial system, this book addresses...
by M. Ncube, E. Ndou
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Monetary Policy and the Economy in South Africa covers both modern theories and empirical analysis, linking monetary policy with relating house wealth, drivers of current account based on asset approach, expenditure switching and income absorption effects of monetary policy on trade balance, effects...
Advances in Financial Risk Management
Corporates, Intermediaries and Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk. Three broad perspectives are considered: financial risk in non-financial corporations; in financial intermediaries such as banks; and finally within the context of a portfolio of securities of different credit quality and marketability.
The Geneva Papers
40 Years at the Cutting Edge of Research in Insurance Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In January 1976, Raymond Barre, the first President of The Geneva Association, and Orio Giarini, its first Secretary General, founded The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance with the main goal of supporting and encouraging research in the economics of risk and insurance. At that time, research in...
Analysing Economic Data
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Covers the key issues required for students wishing to understand and analyse the core empirical issues in economics. It focuses on descriptive statistics, probability concepts and basic econometric techniques and has an accompanying website that contains all the data used in the examples and provides exercises for undertaking original research.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
This book investigates several competing forecasting models for interest rates, financial returns, and realized volatility, addresses the usefulness of nonlinear models for hedging purposes, and proposes new computational techniques to estimate financial processes.
by Jonathan Sutherland, Diane Canwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Key Concepts in Management is one of a range of comprehensive glossaries with entries arranged alphabetically for easy reference. All major concepts, terms, theories and theorists are incorporated and cross-referenced. Additional reading and Internet research opportunities are identified. More complex...
Unmasking Financial Psychopaths
Inside the Minds of Investors in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
As financial markets expand globally in response to economic and technological developments of the twenty-first century, our understanding and expectations of the people involved in these markets also change. Unmasking Financial Psychopaths suggests that an increasing number of financiers labeled...