Finance and the finance industry

This book highlights research-based case studies in order to analyze the wealth created in the world's largest mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2018, held in Manchester, UK, in June 2018.

The industrial development of emerging markets has been a powerful driver for mergers and acquisitions.

This book seeks to diagnose and analyze the social, economic and technological consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, which brought epochal changes to our lives.

This book discusses risk management, product pricing, capital management and Return on Equity comprehensively and seamlessly.

The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism.

This book explores the various aspects of Waqf management in IsDB member countries/jurisdictions as well as in non-Muslim majority countries.

Conventional wisdom dictates that those goods which are said to cause harm or impose costs on society deserve a special tax.

This book and the underlying research address the questions: "e;How successful are U.

Since the financial crisis of 2008/09, the world's major central banks have been struggling to return their economies to higher growth and to reach their inflation targets.

This book offers a primer on the valuation of digital intangibles, a trending class of immaterial assets.

Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy is an important study of the contribution of Austrian Enlightenment economist Ludwig Zinzendorf to the political economy of the Habsburg monarchy in the mid eighteenth century.

Drawing on contributions from nineteen prominent scholars, the book reflects on the quest for sustainable development as a source of competitive advantage for organizations and as a global imperative for society.

This book provides computational tools that readers can use to flourish in the retirement income industry.

Budgeting is probably the single most important function in government, considering the amount of money a government spends each year on various expenditure programs and activities, as well as the time it spends in preparing the budget, appropriating funds for these activities and, finally, executing them.

This book clarifies some misunderstandings about money by tying the concept of money to the goods and services sector of the economy.

This book presents the principles and methods for the practical analysis and prediction of economic and financial time series.

This book scrutinizes global financial flows and stocks, both financial assets and liabilities and their impact on the global balance of economic power, especially as they affect the largest and fastest-growing countries in both the developed and the developing world.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of European Union (EU) central banking law, a field of EU economic law which emerged in the late 1990s and has developed rapidly ever since.

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.

Sustainable investments, although not yet working under a comprehensive regulatory framework, represent a growing, worldwide phenomenon.

This book, adopting machine learning techniques for the financial planning field, explores the demand for life insurance as seen in previous literature and both estimates and predicts the demand for the adoption of life insurance using these techniques.

This Palgrave Pivot uses Marxian economic categories and analysis to explore the deeper causes of the 2008 global economic crisis, what the crisis represents for capitalism, and why fiscal and monetary policies pursued in its wake have failed to rejuvenate economies.

This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world.

The book addresses a topic at the intersection of two heavily regulated sectors: insurance and investment services.

The US QI and FATCA regulations came into being in 2001 and 2010 respectively.

This proceedings book presents selected papers from the 10th international conference on the "e;Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC), held in Warsaw, Poland, in May 2018.

Muslim consumers represent an untapped and viable market segment, but to date there has been very little research on catering to their needs or running and managing Islamic businesses.

This timely book addresses the effects and implications of rapid technological changes within the financial services industry on Islamic finance and Islamic banks.

This handbook analyses the European Banking Union legal framework focusing on legislative acts (regulations and directives), case law and the resolution procedures.

This book presents the effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) and economic processes in macroeconomic dynamics, finance, marketing, industrial policies, and in government economic strategy.

This book examines key methodological and organizational questions with regard to assessing the quality of internal audits.

More extensive regulations, new technologies, and new means of communication have significantly changed the financing landscape for startups and small to medium-sized companies (SMEs).

Executive compensation and its fairness to stakeholders are topics of heated debate on platforms ranging from news forums to financial markets.

This book provides a concise and pragmatic introduction to transfer pricing.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.

This book is about what Mark Carney has called 'the social licence for financial markets' and how it can point us towards a more sustainable future.

The book provides a holistic and practical approach to lean management throughout the business value chain.

This volume collects the extended versions of papers presented at the SIS Conference "e;Statistics and Data Science: new challenges, new generations"e;, held in Florence, Italy on June 28-30, 2017.

This book proposes a review of Long-Term Care insurance; this issue is addressed both from a global point of view (through a presentation of the risk of dependence associated with the aging of the population) and an actuarial point of view (with the presentation of existing insurance products and actuarial techniques for pricing and reserving).

This book discusses the concept of sustainability valuation, a method in which corporate social responsibility (CSR) among other factors is embedded in the cash value of a given firm.

This book examines existing mineral fiscal policies covering income taxation, royalties, free carried and participative (community and government) interests and also highlights the impacts of these policies on the feasibility of mineral projects as well as on revenue and other benefits to the State.

This book stresses the psychological perspective in explaining financial behavior.

This book highlights essential concepts, models, and processes that help those responsible for making pricing decisions - whether professionally or privately - to effectively engage in product pricing activities.

The book explains the impact of bank business models on company business models by discussing the relationship among banks decision-making processes, sustainable values creation in company business models, and ESG risk.

Use of quantitative data, especially in financial markets, may provide rapid results due to the ease-of-use and availability of fast computational software, but this book advises caution and helps to understand and avoid potential pitfalls.

This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets.

This book provides an insight into commercial relations between large economies and Small States, the benefits of regional integration, the role of Small States as financial centres as well as B2B and State to State dispute resolution involving Small States.

The FinTech community is steeped in change and has the potential to pave the way for equal opportunities in the workplace, considering the positive actions that have taken place.