Corporate finance

Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field of microfinance.

Systemic financial crises have become a common feature of the global financial landscape.

For many entrepreneurs, raising finance is the most important moment in their startup journey.

The financial crisis focused unprecedented attention on ethics in investment banking.

This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value.

The past decade has been a time of drastic developments, both in financial markets and in related academic research.

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier.

This book provides a concise and pragmatic introduction to transfer pricing.

Having the right investment beliefs and putting them into practice is key to delivering the right results.

Mergers and acquisitions occur for many legitimate reasons and should be encouraged as a matter of general policy, yet the resulting increase in the level of market concentration and market strength can lead to concerns that certain 'deals' may irreparably damage the market structure and create anti-competitive effects.

"e;The first port of call for anyone looking to truly understand derivatives markets, appreciate the role they play within the global financial system and develop the technical knowledge to trade.

In the past China's capital market featured prevalent state ownership and a weak legal environment.

Asset pricing theory yields deep insights into crucial market phenomena such as stock market bubbles.

This book explores current thinking on corporate governance by way of a detailed study of the governance practices of fourteen Japanese companies.

Private online digital currency systems offer people accessible, convenient, and inexpensive everyday financial tools outside of traditional bank-owned and operated platforms.

A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement.

The book is an analysis of corporate treasury and cash management with the principal financial instruments used by the corporate treasurer.

This book deals with climate finance and presents a balance between the theoretical framework—as drawn by the most widely cited practitioner-oriented and academic journals in environmental management—and experimental finance.

In light of Turkey's EU bid and the successful IMF-led disinflation program, this book explores the evolution and performance of the Turkish banking sector.

This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to formal ones) for policy reform.

How can we explain the persistent worsening of the income distribution in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s?

This book is a research monograph addressed to a wide range of academics interested in corporate short-term capital.

Management Buyouts (MBOs) first came to prominence in the US during the early 1980s, and have subsequently become a global phenomenon and a highly significant transaction within the corporate restructuring landscapeAlthough much recent attention has focused on private equity (PE) backed buyouts, these are only a subset of the total MBO market.

The current transformation of the global economy is being driven by new fundamental innovations, digitalization, industry dynamics and climate change.

This book proposes new tools and models to price options, assess market volatility, and investigate the market efficiency hypothesis.

This book explores the integrity of equity markets, addressing such issues as the exchange vs.

From 1993-1995 the People's Republic of China undertook a series of reforms designed to modernise their banking and financial systems, the process of financial intermediation and to implement a sound and credible monetary policy in China.

The Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Asia's financial institutions, markets, and systems.

In this book Harold L.

The Definitive Guide to Valuing Hard-to-Value Companies: Fully Revised for Today's Financial Markets Valuing money-making companies that have long histories and established business models is straightforward.

Written by a group of international experts, this book focuses on three interdependent themes: (a) origins and consequences of the current debt crisis; (b) the systemic nature of the crisis; (c) national and international policy efforts to avoid a global collapse and bring about lasting reforms in the Euro zone and in the financial system.

Although primarily a method of improving corporate results through motivating employees, ESOPs have a role in corporate finance as a provider of capital in a highly tax efficient manner.

'This is more than a richly detailed story about the hubris, corruption and incompetence that doomed Credit Suisse; it's a stark warning to all of us about what happens when we let bankers do what they like' - Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of Butler to the World---For centuries, Swiss banks have served the globe's wealthiest individuals, employing a strict culture of anonymity and gaining massive wealth in the process.

This book illustrates the application of the economic concept of stochastic dominance to option markets and presents an alternative option pricing paradigm to the prevailing no arbitrage simultaneous equilibrium in the frictionless underlying and option markets.

Corporate Governance and regulatory presssures have been much in the news lately.

This book analyses and discusses current issues and trends in finance with a special focus on technological developments and innovations.

The complete guide to the basics of nonprofit financial management Let's be honest.

Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on this intriguing, complex, and frequently misunderstood topic.

This book presents a set of conversations with five former Governors of Reserve Bank of India (from 1992 onwards) on the topic of financial inclusion.

This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective.

Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance.

With its inception at the end of the nineteenth century as a means of consolidation and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have since become quasi-institutionalized as one of the primary strategic options for organizations, as they seek to secure their position in an ever more competitive and globalizing market place.

Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

The current dynamics of world economy show remarkable changes in the socio-economics of credit provision and entrepreneurship.

This book takes us 'behind closed doors' to uncover the nature of the relationship between the audit engagement partner and the company finance director in major listed companies.