Driven to the Brink is a collection of short stories about corporate disasters and how inadequate governance and flawed culture caused a massive destruction of shareholder value.
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Finance: A Deterministic Approach, Second edition, offers a highly illustrated introduction to mathematical finance, with a special emphasis on interest rates.
This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader theoretical level.
This book presents new methodologies for rating non-financial issuers and project ratings based on the BFO (Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova) theory of capital cost and structure, and its perpetuity limit (Modigliani-Miller theory), as well as modern investment models created by the authors.
This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking African countries.
This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration.
This book critically addresses the model of social inclusion that prevailed in Brazil under the rule of the Workers Party from the early 2000s until 2015.
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies.
Master the features of C++ that are frequently used to write financial software for options and derivatives, including the STL, templates, functional programming, and numerical libraries.
Sharing accurate and timely supply and demand information throughout a supply chain can yield significant performance improvements to all members of the supply chain.
Die Zielsetzung der Lissabon-Agenda von 2010, die Zahlungsdienste im Euro- und europäischen Wirtschaftsraum zu harmonisieren, um grenzüberschreitende Zahlungen so einfach, effizient und sicher wie „nationale Zahlungen“ abzuwickeln, wird mit der Einführung moderner und umfassender Regularien wie PSD I, PSD II und SEPA gewährleistet.
This volume gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the international conference "e;MAF 2016 - Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance"e;, held in Paris (France) at the Universite Paris-Dauphine from March 30 to April 1, 2016.
This book presents empirical evidence that supports and facilitates a practical, integrated approach to how bank regulatory and selected macro-prudential tools interact with monetary policy to achieve price and financial stability.
This book explores contemporary issues and trends facing Islamic banks, businesses and economies as presented at the International Conference of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance.
Dieses Buch schlägt erstmalig die Brücke zwischen dem Financial Management auf der einen und dem strategischen Management auf der anderen Seite und schließt damit eine eklatante Lücke zwischen diesen beiden Disziplinen.
This book analyzes the impacts that family control of firms has on capital structure choices, leverage and the risk of financial distress, earnings management practices, and the relation between accounting choices and firm market value.
This book explores food traceability in raw materials, additives and packing of the dairy sector and it provides an accessible and succinct overview of the new Extended Traceability (ExTra) software.
This book illustrates the EU-wide Solvency II framework for the insurance industry, which was implemented on January 1, 2016, after a long project phase.
Dieses Buch erläutert die angesichts der Wirtschaftskrise ab 2007 notwendig gewordenen Anpassungen der finanzierungstechnischen Parameter anhand von detaillierten Fallstudienanalysen und zeigt, welche Faktoren die Projekte zum "Fliegen" bringen.
In diesem Herausgeberwerk beleuchten hochkarätige Experten aus Banken, Unternehmensberatung und Wissenschaft künftig bedeutsame Erfolgsfaktoren für die Finanzbranche.
Das Lehrbuch definiert die Ziele der Investitions- und Finanzpolitik in Unternehmen und erklärt einfach und verständlich die Grundlagen und Methoden der Investitionsrechnung, Finanzierung und Finanzderivate.
Dieses Buch zeigt, dass medizinisch-technischer Fortschritt, steigendes Gesundheits- und Nachhaltigkeitsbewusstsein der Menschen und demographischer Wandel nicht nur Auswirkungen auf die Pharmaindustrie, sondern auch auf die Logistik haben.
