Corporate finance

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.

As the real economy is increasingly digitalized, banking lags behind.

This book analyzes the post-subprime crisis world from the global, Asian and Chinese perspectives.

Pay is a key element of the employment relationship and it has been advocated by some recently as a tool for enhancing organizational performance and sustained competitiveness.

Money is an important instrument of calculation: as a unit of account and means of payment, it serves the purpose of exchange.

For many entrepreneurs there is a mystique about finance -starting, growing and selling new ventures is tough enough.

The recent crisis has redrawn attention to financial globalization.

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

The Group of Seven Industrialized Countries, G7 developed a new doctrine of international supervision and regulation of financial markets.

Improving Banking Supervision shows how greater market discipline can be used to help improve the quality of banks and their management in a world of increasing complexity, size and innovation.

This book is a valuable companion for everyone who is interested in the historical context of the co-evolution of financial markets and information technologies in the last 30 years.

This book explores new forms of private, mutual municipal, public-private and 'reverse' state funding of public investments, co-payments and shared contributions, vouchers, and pooled public risk-financing.

What is the role of legislatures in the budget process?

Revised and updated guide to some of the most important issues in the capital markets today, with an emphasis on fixed-income instruments.

The current crisis is emerging as the most severe downturn since the Great Depression.

This book explains how financial institutions, such as banks and finance houses, manage their portfolios of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other types of retail credit agreements.

Dark Pools is a practical text dealing with the increasingly important topic of dark pools, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading and liquidity.

Globalization and the financial crisis highlight the problems caused by worldwide banking organizations and force financial groups to reassess their development strategies.

This volume contributes to empirical research on the role of national fiscal rules and institutions in shaping fiscal policies.

This edited volume contains essential readings for financial analysts and market practitioners working at Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

This dictionary covers the terminology of the international financial marketplace.

The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher.

Marketing Through Turbulent Times offers a range of tools, principles and approaches for decision makers who want to lead their organization toward a robust future by ensuring that their marketing strategies are not only relevant for today's difficult environment but will also lay the foundation for innovative growth opportunities.

A fascinating discussion of the role played by fear in financial market panics.

This is an edited collection of essential readings on Reserves Management and Sovereign Wealth Management, from the recent SAA conference organized by the Bank for International Settlements, the European Central Bank and the World Bank Treasury.

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance.

A comprehensive chronicle of thetransformation of the intensely competitive British insurance industry in response to evolving economic, social, technological and political conditions.

The book describes the current role and rationale of co-operative banking and examines features such as governance, consolidation, outsourcing, shareholder value and rating evaluation.

This book provides a thorough introduction to pricing and risk management of modern financial instruments formulated in precise mathematical language, covering all relevant topics with such a depth of detail that readers are enabled to literally develop their own pricing and risk tools.

Explores the idea that Europe's growth problems may be caused by weaknesses in capital markets and in the access to risk capital.

Payment systems are changing profoundly through regulation, technology and competition from new entrants.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the prospects for financial markets in the face of rapid technological development and international integration.

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.

This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and economic conditions that determine levels of shareholder participation, and the implications of variation in investor rights.

The book provides one of the most comprehensive overviews of the internal and external challenges of processing venture capital deals, providing an eight stage investment model that breaks down each part of the deal into its own specific challenges and rewards.

The ability to effectively create and interpret financial models is one of the most valued skills in corporate finance--from Wall Street to Main Street.

By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage disaster, the author explains why and how corporate managers led their organizations toward disasters in the long-run.

Written by two experts in the field, will provide readers with a roadmap for detailing how to leave family wealth and more importantly, legacy, intact.