Corporate finance

In June 2010 IE Business School, with King Abdulaziz University, gathered in Madrid some of the world's foremost scholars, academics and practitioners of Islamic Economics and Finance.

The banking industry extensively lobbied against Basel III and governments have been keen to delay its full implementation.

While there may be a consensus in the industry that hedge funds clones will bring better liquidity and lower fees, it is still debatable whether replication products should serve as a complement in the hedge fund allocation decision or as a replacement.

This book offers a comprehensive view on bancassurance from its origin to future challenges and opportunities, considering the relevant changes currently interesting the financial services industry.

Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy traces the evolution of corporate governance over time, with a particular focus on the changing nature of power.

A comprehensive review of contemporary research in management accounting.

Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets.

Forecasts predict that those in need of long-term care in Europe will double in the next 50 years.

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

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period.

Through the tools of economics, Annunziata's vivid and gripping book shows how the global financial crisis was caused by a failure of leadership and common sense in which we all played a role.

Banking with Integrity provides rich and in-depth case studies of banks which were doing well during the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

Private Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland.

This book provides comprehensive coverage on the key issues of Chinese investment in the Australian minerals industry.

The book reveals how the Global Credit Bubble and Bust of 2003-10 stemmed from giant monetary disequilibrium created by the Federal Reserve.

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority).

The 40th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

An inside view of the forces which shaped SEPA and the PSD written from the unique perspective of someone closely involved throughout the process.

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state of the art insights into bank performance, risk and firm financing post crisis that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at Bangor University, Wales, 2010.

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state-of-the-art insights into research focusing on dimensions of bank strategy, governance and the role of credit rating agencies that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference, September 2010.

This tells the story of the development of the private equity industry in Germany.

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

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

This book presents the state-of-the-art with respect to credit risk evaluation and pricing within the contemporary global banking and financial system.

Recent years have shown an increase in development and acceptance of quantitative methods for asset and liability management strategies.

A collection of engaging and thought-provoking essays looking at the world of business and management during a recession.

Iceland became one of the symbols of the global financial crisis.

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis.

Chinese banks have been making headlines recently, but what lies beneath?

This book on the different aspects of international economic policy covers financial crises, reserve accumulation, capital flows and currency wars as well as issues relating to foreign direct investment and developments in China and India.

Despite considerable progress on political and economic convergence over the last decade, financial structures of individual countries within the EU remain diverse.

This is the first comprehensive book on the politics and economics of financial sector consolidation in an emerging market in West Africa.

This book sheds light on the emotional side of risk taking behaviour using an innovative cross-disciplinary approach, mixing financial competences with psychology and affective neuroscience.

The story of the recent global economic crisis is told in the words of the main players in the drama.

This book examines new issues in financial markets and institutions raised by the global economic crisis that began in 2007.

This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques.

The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior.

This book analyzes privatization in Ireland, a European economy that has experienced rapidly changing fortunes over the last thirty years.

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s.

We have seen many empires come and go.

Today we are witnessing social and political dominance of large corporations.

This book investigates several competing forecasting models for interest rates, financial returns, and realized volatility, addresses the usefulness of nonlinear models for hedging purposes, and proposes new computational techniques to estimate financial processes.

This book proposes new methods to value equity and model the Markowitz efficient frontier using Markov switching models and provide new evidence and solutions to capture the persistence observed in stock returns across developed and emerging markets.

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

Math and jargon make essential financial concepts seem intimidating, but that is simply because most books do not have the goal of being accessible to interested readers - this book does.

The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures.

This collection of conference papers presents a contemporary insight into key trends impacting on the global financial sector post crisis and highlights new policy and research areas affecting banks and other financial institutions.

The 39th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain.

Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems.