Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1: Cryptocurrency, FinTech, InsurTech, and Regulation explores recent advances in digital banking and cryptocurrency, emphasizing mobile technology and evolving uses of cryptocurrencies as financial assets.
The Independence of Credit Rating Agencies focuses on the institutional and regulatory dynamics of these agencies, asking whether their business models give them enough independence to make viable judgments without risking their own profitability.
Illustrates profit and loss results for simple options and option spreads Explains the Greeks and their importance Outlines how options offer four ways to approach the market Includes a step-by-step walk-through of placing an order
MASTER THE STRATEGY THAT MADE WARREN BUFFETT THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL INVESTOROne way to make a killing in the market is by identifying underappreciated stocks, purchasing them at less than their intrinsic value, and selling them for profit.
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks.
Proven strategies for meeting the unique-and increasingly complex-challenges of private wealth managementWhether you re a money manager or managing your own wealth, Freedom from Wealth provides the tools you need to improve the management of a family fortune in today's increasingly globalized financial landscape.
The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals is a comprehensive resource for readers with a background in science and technology who want to transfer their skills to the financial industry.
The first real-world guide for training equity research analysts-from a Morgan Stanley veteranAddresses the dearth of practical training materials for research analysts in the U.
"e;The technician's technician"e; (Barron's), Martin Pring gives new traders the tools and insight they need to draw greater profits from today's marketsThis new edition of Introduction to Technical Analysis explains how to evaluate trends, highs, lows, price/column relationships, price patterns, moving averages, and momentum indicators for a contemporary audience, using fully new, updated charts, diagrams, and examples.
Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life.
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of public pension reform on employment at older ages.
Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility.
Foreign investment increased from 17 percent of the capital of industrial corporations in Imperial Russia in 1880 to 47 percent in 1914, coinciding with the rapid development of Russian industrialization before World War I.
Focusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.
How to maintain a bullish portfolio--no matter where the market goesInvest to Win revolutionizes the way investors approach the markets by offering a more profitable alternative to the old buy-and-hold strategy that leaves many people destitute in this age of market crashes.
THREE E-BOOKS IN ONEThe Millionaire Real Estate InvestorAnyone who seeks financial wealth must first learn the fundamental truths and models that drive it.
The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support.
The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending.
Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage.
A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance.
Accountability, Social Responsibility and Sustainability addresses the broad and complicated interactions between organisational life, civil society, markets, inequality and environmental degradation through the lenses of accounting, accountability, responsibility and sustainability.
Over the last decade or so, private-sector financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has become increasingly popular around the world as a way of procuring and maintaining public-sector infrastructure, in sectors such as transportation (roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, airports), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools, prisons, social housing) public utilities (water supply, waste water treatment, waste disposal), government offices and other accommodation, and other specialised services (communications networks or defence equipment).
Principles of Economics and Management for Manufacturing Engineering combines key engineering economics principles and applications in one easy to use reference.
A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andrés Velasco invested budget surpluses from the nation’s historic copper boom in two Sovereign Wealth Funds.
International Money and Finance, Tenth Edition presents an institutional and historical overview of international finance and international money, illustrating how key economic concepts can illuminate real world problems.