Corporate finance

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.

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.