Corporate finance

A new look at nearly 20 years of theoretical and practical research on IT outsourcing.

Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar.

Given the increased impact of non-market forces on business reputation, there has never been a greater need to grasp corporate social performance.

Social and environmental issues can be very complex and overwhelming for managers.

In today's globalized economy, banking is of international importance.

In-depth analysis of the key players (China, India, Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, North Africa) of the unprecedented international economic integration of the last 25 years.

Energy Risk Modeling is a primer on statistical methods for managers, students and anybody interested in the field.

Mergers and acquisitions are about rapid growth.

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

Investing in Corporate Bonds and Credit Risk is a valuable tool for any corporate bond investor.

Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies.

Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years.

This book explores the theoretical and practical features of Islamic banking.

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 reports on foreign investments in transitional economies and the corporate governance of international strategic alliances in China.

Gorrod examines the many challenges for the next generation risk management system.

Based on data from Japan, the book examines the combined effect of product, geographic, and network diversity on multinational enterprise performance.

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.

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.

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.

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.