Finance and the finance industry

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.

Welcome to the latest edition of the Exotix Capital Developing Markets Guide, produced by Tellimer - the developing markets experts.

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.

This book, the recipient of a bronze medal from the US Axiom Business Book Awards in the Business Ethics category and shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022: International Business Book, comprises multiple finance and ethics case studies.

This book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from an assortment of technologies as they relate to Operations Management and Finance.

This is the first comprehensive book that aims to understand how the novel coronavirus has impacted the venture capital industry.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the main topics of taxation in European law.

This book focuses on modelling financial information flows and information-based asset pricing framework.

There is no doubt that the proliferation of entrepreneurial activity is a current trend.

This textbook offers a step-by-step guide through comprehensive financial statement analysis with real-life case studies for students of financial accounting, financial reporting, and financial statement analysis.

This book combines the study of rhetoric, history, philosophy, philosophy of statistics and the culture of investing to discuss the foundations of stochastical predictability in investment theory.

This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics.

This volume analyzes the barriers to, as well as new drivers for, entrepreneurial development in post-communist countries.

This book addresses key issues in corporate finance and explores them from financial development and financial stability perspectives in emerging markets.

This contributed volume explores the political economy and socioeconomic aspects of the Greek Financial Crisis both within the country's borders and as part of the global economy.

This volume investigates the impact of energy issues on geostrategy.

This book explores in detail the challenges which the European gas markets currently face, and the opportunities they present.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive synthesis of the literature on growth-linked securities, which are an equity-like method of financing for sovereigns.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This book gathers selected papers from the 29th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal.