Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
Minding the Markets
An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He offers a deeper understanding of financial market behaviour and investment processes by recognizing the role played by unconscious needs and fears in all investment activity.
Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions in the 21st Century
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The first volume to explore mergers and acquisitions in the 21st century. The authors systematically introduce, characterize and evaluate these mergers, and discuss the methodologies that can be employed to measure them. They also consider a number of factors relevant to the performance of mergers and acquisitions.
Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe
An Economic and Social Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.
by R. Ayadi, S. Mouley
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Monetary Policy, central banking, and international norms and regulations; a discussion far from new, nor applying exclusively to the world's most advanced economies. A sound monetary policy and a well-enforced regulatory regime is provided, in explanation of developing nations to channel financial resources more efficiently into investments.
Absence of Arbitrage Valuation
A Unified Framework for Pricing Assets and Securities
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Absence of Arbitrage Valuation presents a unified asset pricing strategy through absence of arbitrage and applies this framework to such disparate fields as fixed income security pricing, foreign exchange spots, and forward rates.
Rethinking Rational Choice Theory
A Companion on Rational and Moral Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The marriage of neuroscience and the science of choice behaviour gave birth to neuroeconomics. Jan de Jong explores this new discipline, investigating the relationship between choice behaviour and brain activity, and the light that this sheds on our systems of reasoning.
by Luca Cacciolatti, Soo Hee Lee
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Entrepreneurial Marketing for SMEs contextualizes the practice of marketing amongst SMEs, and critically discusses major issues of Entrepreneurial Marketing with a relevant and up-to-date academic body of knowledge.
Capital and the Debt Trap
Learning from cooperatives in the global crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The financial crisis is destroying wealth but is also a remarkable opportunity to uncover the ways by which debt can be used to regulate the economic system. This book uses four case studies of cooperatives to give an in-depth analysis on how they have braved the crisis and continued to generate wealth.
Exporting the Alaska Model
Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This timely book examines how the "Alaska model" can be adapted for use elsewhere, examining issues of implementation and showing that this model can be employed even in resource-poor areas in the industrialized and in the industrializing world.
Microfinance in Developing Countries
Issues, Policies and Performance Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Microfinance in developing countries is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces, and offers interesting views and analysis of topical matters concerning the microfinance realm.
European Real Estate
Asset Class Performance and Optimal Portfolio Construction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
This book provides a thorough overview of the European real estate Market. It evaluates the performance difference between countries and sectors, and what implications this has for optimal investment strategy within real estate asset classes.
Money, Banking and Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
20 Years of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This book provides a deep insight into the market changes and policy challenges that transition economies have undergone in the last twenty years. It not only comments on and evaluates the development of financial markets in transition economies, but also highlights the key obstacles to full integration of financial markets into the EU market.
by Jakub Kerlin, Elżbieta Malinowska-Misiąg, Paweł Smaga
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This book explores the diversity of restructuring instruments applied to financial institutions in EU countries during the Global Financial Crisis. It investigates the cost of that support before evaluating its effects, as well as providing an extensive analysis of the measures undertaken. The first...
The Early Computer Industry
Limitations of Scale and Scope
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti.