Corporate finance

Economic studies which examine the financing patterns of firms, particularly in emerging markets seldom consider the market environment in which they operate.

The sequel to two in-depth studies of the management of excellent banks written in the 1980s, this new volume addresses the key issues that preoccupy the leadership of today's most admired banking institutions.

This book has been written as a practical guide for finance markets professionals to explain US monetary policy and to make forecasts of future interest rate levels.

This book is a revised and updated guide to some of the most important issues in the capital markets today, with an emphasis on fixed-income instruments such as index-linked bonds, asset backed securities, mortgage backed securities and related products such as credit derivatives.

Corporate accountability must be examined within the perspective of a company's business challenges.

This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services.

The Guangdong province is the forerunner of China's economic reform, it has developed rapidly in the last twenty years since opening up its economy to the outside world.

Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) are a relatively new open- ended investment vehicle.

The taxation of equity derivatives and structured products is analyzed in detail by Tony Rumble and his contributors, Mohammed Amin and Ed Kleinbard.

In the 1990s shareholder value was applied to all aspects of corporate strategy and management decisions as a result of intense competition, globalization, advances in technology, deregulation and the financial markets.

Targeted towards institutional asset managers in general and chief investment officers, portfolio managers and risk managers in particular, this practical book serves as a comprehensive guide to quantitative portfolio optimization, asset allocation and risk management.

The authors present a comprehensive and timely discussion of economic capital and financial risk management for financial services firms and conglomerates.

PPP is one of the most widely researched areas in international finance and one of the most controversial in the theory of exchange rate determination.

Banks' business is increasingly international and an elite group of global banks is emerging.

The New Global Regulatory Landscape provides a benchmark tool for financial intermediaries and Institutional Investors.

In the management of business activity by companies operating in more than one country, the complex array of issues and practices that characterize their movements of assets between constituent company units centres around what has become known as international transfer payments.

This book focuses on the latest developments in the Asia-Pacific community in terms of how deregulation and privatization are bringing more risk to energy companies.

This book will give the reader insight into how to model yield curves in our incomplete and imperfect financial markets.

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

Many investors obtain financial information from television and newspapers, but this does not enable them to understand the secrets of achieving financial success.

This book provides state-of-the art analysis of banking and financial systems in the Arab world.

This book arises from an event on the future of banking which included leading figures in the industry.

Synconomy argues that the operating state of a firm has a synergistic relationship with the behaviour of the entire marketplace.

Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance.

Much critical attention has been given in recent years to market and credit risks, which have a significant effect on corporate and financial operations and must be understood and managed with care.

Corporate Governance is a text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world.

This text explains how Islamic banking works and what it offers as an alternative model of financial intermediation.

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

Despite the huge expansion in consumer credit in the last 25 years there are very few texts describing the operation of consumer credit markets.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of bioinformatics to financial modelling.

The proposed rules are presented and key issues regarding implementation of the accord identified.

By analyzing venture capital industries, this book substantially adds to the understanding of Europe's venture capital industries.

This book delves into the nature of governance in Asia both at government and corporate level.

Alliances and Co-Evolution provides alliance managers, consultants and academics with a detailed analysis covering 23 years of the growth and decline of three lifecycles of alliances.

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The world economy is caught in a money trap.

This volume introduces readers to recent developments in the fields of board of directors and corporate social responsibility.

This volume provides a rigorous and balanced perspective on the causes and implications of dollarization, and the basic policies and options to deal with it: the adaptation of the monetary and prudential frameworks, the development of local-currency substitutes, and the scope for limiting dollarization through administrative restrictions.

What can we learn from financial leaders?

This dynamic study of the business of football considers its income and cost drivers, its capital structure and its accounting policies through UK examples and international comparison.

An introductory guide to finance and the financial markets, designed to help professionals and students understand the complex finance industry.

Euro Crash diagnoses the three fatal design flaws in EMU as constructed by the Maastricht Treaty and analyses future likely monetary scenarios for Europe, demonstrating how the best of these would be the creation of a new narrow monetary union between France and Germany founded on strict monetarist principle and without a European Central Bank.

A collection of papers from leading thinkers to celebrate the work of the late Wynne Godley, and his enormous contribution to the field of monetary economics.

This book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development.

Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz.

The Trustee Guide to Investment is a unique and refreshingly practical guide to the expanding range of markets, investments, tools and techniques to which pension scheme trustees must now become familiar.

This book introduces the reader to the 'world of finance', more exactly to one core activity: investment banking.

Management accounting has undergone significant evolution moving away from rigid budgeting programs and static output measures to comprehensive approaches of value identification and measurement.

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.

The book analyses the Spanish financial system from the turn of the last century to the present day and the economic, social and political backdrop to this history.