Finance and the finance industry

"e;A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan's many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved.

This book explores the relationship between and the compatibility of lean management (LM) and value-based management (VBM) approaches at the systems level.

This book provides readers with essential concepts from financial economics for an integrated study of the financial system and the real economy.

This book explores the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies, an area that has been generating considerable research.

Although the concept "e;Cash is King"e; is today widely recognized, the cash flow statement was rather neglected until the EU accounting regulators discovered its relevance in explaining the real value of the business.

This book analyses the methodologies and functions of a systemic approach to risk governance and internal control capable of tackling the complexity of the insurance business.

Filling a gap in existing literature on revenue management systems, this book explores the use of business strategies which are specifically designed to have a positive impact on economic and financial efficiency.

This book presents a wide range of tools and techniques used in entrepreneurial finance in emerging markets.

Demographic change is affecting societies and organizations alike.

Management Control is the process by which managers at all hierarchical levels ensure that their strategic intentions are realized.

This book describes five qualitative investment decision-making methods based on the hesitant fuzzy information.

This book illustrates the application of the economic concept of stochastic dominance to option markets and presents an alternative option pricing paradigm to the prevailing no arbitrage simultaneous equilibrium in the frictionless underlying and option markets.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making.

Initially, introducing compliance functions within the financial industry had been forced by regulatory scrutiny.

Blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to transform how the accounting and financial services industries engage with the business, stakeholder and consumer communities.

The growth of Islamic finance today is significant, making it timely to meet the market demand across the world and particularly for Muslim countries by producing a cryptocurrency model under the Shari'ah ethical principles.

This book discusses various aspects of blockchains in economic systems and investment strategies in crypto markets.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics presents selected theoretical and empirical papers from the 25th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2018.

This book is designed to meet the needs of CFOs, accounting and financial professionals interested in leveraging the power of data-driven customer insights in management accounting and financial reporting systems.

This proceedings volume presents current research and innovative solutions into capital markets, particularly in Poland.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 22nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference in Rome.

This fourth edition of Financial Services Marketing firmly reinforces the book's role as a leading global educational resource, combining appropriate conceptual principles with practical insights on how financial products and services are marketed in the real world.

Issues related to central banks feature regularly in economic news coverage, and in times of economic or financial crisis, especially when a commercial bank is bailed out, they become the focus of the policy debate.

This book uses the building blocks of modern capital market theory, including behavioural finance, as the point of departure for an analysis of hidden ethical content in the contemporary research into capital markets.

In a first approximation, profit may seem like a simple and intuitive concept, but the definition is not limited to a single conceptual category.

This book analyses state-of-the-art techniques in business process management as drivers of advanced entrepreneurship, financial management, supply chain management, and sustainability management.

This textbook provides a broad overview of the present state of insurance mathematics and some related topics in risk management, financial mathematics and probability.

This book offers an essential guide to Public Finance and National Accounts in the context of the European Union.

This book is the second of two volumes which highlight the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective.

The book provides an introduction to logistics and supply chain management and the application of evolutionary computation, focusing on specific fields related to supply chain issues, from strategic sourcing decisions, and production planning and control to inventory to logistics and its application using evolutionary / heuristics techniques.

This book presents the state of the art of two areas: intelligent residential buildings and the behaviour of their occupants.

This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries.

This book offers fresh insights into the economic development and financial markets of Southeastern and Central European countries.

This book examines the complexity of trading and the creation of liquidity.

This global handbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of shadow banking, or market-based finance as it has been recently coined.

This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971.

Small businesses are the backbone of the U.

This book analyses the reform of Greece's public revenue administration promoted by its international lenders under the successive bailout agreements put in place since 2010.

This book provides a comparative analysis of performance budgeting and financing implementation, and examines failures and successes across both developed and developing countries.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Waqf management and its impact on socio-economic development, specifically financial inclusion and sustainable development as well as of the legal issues in Waqf management in IsDB member countries and jurisdictions.

Islamic finance has grown exponentially since 1963 and has reached more than 70 countries around the world with the asset size of about $2.

This book argues that the 2007/08 financial crisis revealed fundamental flaws in how the financial sector had evolved over the previous three decades.

This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa.

This book assesses the evolutionary sustainability of liberalism.

This book evaluates key commercial law aspects of the relevant law and legislation governing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBSs) in Australia from a legal perspective.

This volume presents current developments in the fields of banking and finance from an international perspective.

This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy's seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today.

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion around so-called precarious or venture work, as the proportion of those employed by start-ups and thinly-capitalized firms continues to grow.

Analysing foreign investment promotion at a regional level in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, the book applies regional science, international business, and place marketing concepts to explore how Central Eastern European Countries compete for multinational firms.