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The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger...

This book takes you on a journey through post-crisis regulatory reform, highlighting the unintended consequences of some of the measures on transac...

This is a succinct guide to the application and modelling of dependence models or copulas in the financial markets. First applied to credit risk mo...

As financial markets expand globally in response to economic and technological developments of the twenty-first century, our understanding and expe...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

How do bank supervisors strike a balance between market self-regulation and pro-active regulatory intervention? This book investigates the choice o...

A practitioner's account of how investment risk affects the decisions of professional investment managers. Jargon-free, with a broad coverage of in...

Since the 2008 financial crisis, researchers and policy makers have been looking to empirical data to distil both what happened and how a similar e...

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle chal...

This book is an economic analysis of the stock exchange industry. The authors draw on theories from micro- and industrial economics to provide a de...

Take control of your investment decisionsThe investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical ...

With Asia as its backdrop, this book investigates the role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes...

The first practitioner handbook on export credit insurance and guarantees, providing manufacturers, exporters, bankers, and lawyers with a much nee...

In recent years the continuity of many firms has been achieved by restructuring, a task which takes up a great deal of senior management's time. Wr...

Research on MFI performance is still in its infancy. MFIs are hybrid organizations with dual objectives. Performance studies in microfinance are th...

The European Periphery Debt Crisis (EPDC) has its roots in the structural characteristics of the individual economies affected. This book offers a ...

Any decision by a company regarding the use of profits to pay tax, remuneration or shareholder returns has ethical implications. Sharing Profits re...

Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage h...

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy C...

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...