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Leading analyst Sandy Chen provides a thorough guide to the analysis and valuation of banks. Unlike other businesses and institutions, banks have a...

Behavioral Finance helps investors understand unusual asset prices and empirical observations originating out of capital markets. At its core, this...

Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, Internatio...

From a period of growth and considerably high levels of profitability, Greek banks recently found themselves battling a major decrease in demand in...

Arnaboldi highlights the importance of one of the three pillars of the Banking Union, the common mechanism for insuring deposits. She claims that i...

This book examines the effectiveness of surveillance by international institutions for financial crisis prevention. It discusses issues relating to...

Macroprudential policies, tools and supervision have become important since the last financial crisis. This book addresses general and methodologic...

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the China-EU relationship. Ai...

This book provides an original approach to the determinants of stock exchange integration. With case studies of successful integration projects in ...

This book provides a comprehensive approach to Corporate Governance, Audit Process and Risk Management. Furthermore, it provides an analytical and ...

The world economy is caught in a money trap. Existing monetary arrangements meet the needs neither of the ageing societies of the West nor of young...

The post 2000 period for India has been quite eventful for Indian economy. The Book examines the implications of growth for inequality and some of ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) assumed a prominent role in Central East Europe (CEE) early on in the transition process. Foreign investors were as...

The Future BRICS provides in depth quantitative and qualitative questions and answers about the future of the BRICS Forum as a synergistic economic...

As interest in MBA programs and business schools more generally continues to grow, it is essential that teachers and students analyse their establi...

This book provides novel insight into the governance of banks and looks at regulatory measures for strengthening bank stability. It includes empiri...

This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolu...

Following the financial crisis dramatic market changes, a new standard in interest rate modelling emerged, called the multi-curve framework. The au...

This volume provides a pluralistic discussion from world-renowned scholars on the international aspects of the debt crisis and prospects for resolu...

The series of recent financial crises have thrown open the world of quantitative finance and financial modeling. This book brings together proven a...

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology. He...

The world economy is caught in a money trap. Existing monetary arrangements meet the needs neither of the ageing societies of the West nor of young...

The current global financial and economic crisis has called for the revival of Keynesian theory. This sixth volume in the International Papers in P...

The authors first experience in creating a unique tourism venture was lighthouse tourism, encapsulated in the Stone Lights project (1999-2001). Thr...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book examines the emergence of ...

Describes the lives, theories, and legacies of six great minds in finance who changed the way we look at financial markets and equilibrium. Bacheli...

Credit Portfolio Management is a topical text on approaches to the active management of credit risks. The book is a valuable, up to date guide for ...

An executive level guide to implementing or extending an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework in an organization. Avoiding complex modeling t...

Eco-entrepreneurship is a pervasive market-based approach to environmental recovery and sustainability. The aptitudes, motivations, strategies, and...

The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse ...

This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economic...

Banking Regulation in China provides an in-depth analysis of the country's contemporary banking regulatory system, focusing on regulation in practi...

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating...

This book analyses calendar anomalies in the real estate industry with a focus on the European market. It considers annual, monthly and weekly cale...

This book is a one-stop reference for practitioners and academics in finance, business and economics, providing a holistic reference to the interna...

This book analyses how the financial system adjusts to institutional changes such as new technology, political tendencies, cultural differences, ne...

Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in...

With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flu...

This book addresses an experiment in funding money damage claims in England from 2000 to 2013. The model - recoverable conditional fees - was uniqu...

Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasemen...

The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse ...

Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects ...

Corporate scandals at the beginning of the 2000s and the recent global financial crisis have renewed the attention of academics, regulators and pra...

Written by a practitioner with years working in CVA, FVA and DVA this is a thorough, practical guide to a topic at the very core of the derivatives...

The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospe...

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th ...