Finance and the finance industry

This book is the outcome of the CIMPA School on Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance, held in Marrakech and Kelaat M'gouna (Morocco) in April 2013.

This book provides a thorough overview of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and digital assets and their impact on the future of money and finance.

This volume investigates different aspects of monetary policy and prevention of financial crises.

Pricing of export credit is a challenge in the globalised world trade.

This book explores the issue of private sector over-indebtedness following the recent financial crisis.

This book explores the volatility, efficiency and integration of stock markets in Islamic countries.

This book presents contributions by leading academics and practitioners from central banks to shed light on the function and impact of cash in Asian countries.

South Florida continues to attract new residents despite its susceptibility to sea-level rise.

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical.

This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times.

This volume comprises papers presented at the 8th international conference "e;The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC) held in Split, Croatia in 2016.

This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy.

This volume continues to highlight the latest research contributions presented at the annual Wroclaw conference in Finance (Poland), covering a wide range of topics in the field.

This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession.

This volume explores the influence of professional service firms on public policy-making from a global perspective.

This book introduces current managerial approaches to energy production and energy use.

This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies.

This book is for people who want to know what to do with the money they save: so that it's there when they need it - to buy a home, pay for college, etc.

This book covers each step in the asset allocation process, addressing as many of the relevant questions as possible along the way.

This book is written for the experienced portfolio manager and professional options traders.

This book discusses the period before and after the Soviet collapse and the impact on Georgia's economy and society.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.

There are few innovations that have the potential to revolutionize commerce and have evolved so quickly that there remain significant misunderstandings about their operation, opportunity, and challenges as has Bitcoin in the dozen years since its invention.

This book analyses the controversial and critical issue of 2% inflation targeting, currently practised by central banks in the US, Japan and Europe.

This book provides an overview of current issues associated to financial literacy improvement.

This book explores the status quo of corporate governance in banking and investor protection from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

In recent decades, the dissemination and the adoption of new public management (NPM) have been significant within the new public sector.

Fixed income investments have been a topic of broad interest, in particular for institutional investors such as insurance companies and pensions schemes.

This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession.

China's economy has been transforming rapidly over the last 25 years.

This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to market timing using moving averages.

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 4th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy and Finances (DEFIN22) at the Saint-Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (UMTE), which took place in March 2022.

La Charte africaine des valeurs et des principes de la décentralisation, de la gouvernance locale et du développement local, adoptée en juin 2014 par les États membres de l'Union africaine à Malabo (Guinée équatoriale) est entrée en vigueur en janvier 2019.

This third volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the second part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (J-Z).

This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors.

This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services.

This book addresses the need for a better understanding of the design, implementation and improvement of process management.

These proceedings gather selected peer-reviewed papers from the 11th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), which was held in Jiuzhaigou, China, on 25-28 July, 2016.

This volume includes a selection of the contributions presented at the Wroclaw conference in Finance, covering a wide range of topics in the area of finance.

This book explains concepts and techniques for business analytics and demonstrate them on real life applications for managers and practitioners.

This book proposes a new capital asset pricing model dubbed the ZCAPM that outperforms other popular models in empirical tests using US stock returns.

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier.

This book examines how credit and finance schemes affect the financial lives of vulnerable people around the world.

This book provides a hands-on guide to how financial models are actually implemented and used in practice, on a daily basis, for pricing and risk-management purposes.

This book examines economic policies utilized within Southeast Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the last few years, we have witnessed an upsurge of enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies and, more generally, the so-called blockchain technology.

This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015.

The book describes the historical evolution and development of accounting theories and principles.