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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book analyses how the financial system adjusts to institutional changes such as new technology, political tendencies, cultural differences, new business models, and government interactions. It emphasises how different institutional settings affect firms' borrowing and increases our understanding of how efficient financial markets are formed.
Regulating Capitalism?
The Evolution of Transnational Accounting Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
By exploring how financial, legal and wider socio-economic systems can accelerate or decelerate the harmonization in financial markets, this book connects issues both of contemporary political science and accounting research.
by Dongsheng Lu
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This latest addition to the Financial Engineering Explained series focuses on the new standards for derivatives valuation, namely, pricing and risk management taking into account counterparty risk, and the XVA's Credit, Funding and Debt value adjustments.
Life After Debt
The Origins and Resolutions of Debt Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolution. It provides a comprehensive evaluation of how the debt crisis has impacted Western Europe, the emerging markets and Latin America, and puts forward different suggestions for recovery.
by A. Estache, Q. Wodon, KATHRYN LOMAS
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estache and Wodon explore the extent to which some key policies have hurt or helped progress in trying to speed the expansions...
Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions
A Study of their Objectives and Achievements
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a study of the objectives of Islamic Finance in the modern banking space and offers insight into the effects of changes and developments occurring in Islamic banking products and services.
The Public Debt Problem
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in America...
Basel III Credit Rating Systems
An Applied Guide to Quantitative and Qualitative Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
More than ever, banking competition is based on the ability to control the cost of risk and can only be managed with excellent internal rating models and very advanced risk management processes. This book is a comprehensive guide to quantitative and qualitative rating assessments with up-to-date methodologies in the international banking system.
Global Asset Management
Strategies, Risks, Processes, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book focuses on all major aspects of the asset management industry including its regulations, strategies, processes, applied technologies and risks. It provides a serious resource for readers seeking greater depth and alternative opinions on specific industry developments, and breadth for specialists interested in the dynamics of the industry.
by T. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.
The Life Cyclists
Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.
The Corporate Financiers
Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen, Meckling
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value.
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The Rise of the Quants
Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?'
The Pillars of Finance
The Misalignment of Finance Theory and Investment Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Written by bestselling finance author Guy Fraser-Sampson, this is a provocative account of the severe limitations of modern finance, advocating a bold new way forward for the finance industry. The Pillars of Finance is a lively and provocative read, challenging some of the core beliefs of modern finance.