Finance and the finance industry

This Palgrave Pivot aims to build a bridge between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable finance in financial markets.

How and why do strategic perspectives of financial institutions differ by class and region?

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally.

Clearing, Settlement, and Custody, Third Edition, introduces the post-trade infrastructure and its institutions.

This book presents a selection of contributions on the timely topic of structural reforms in Western economies, written by experts from central banks, the International Monetary Fund, and leading universities.

Boards of directors are a central feature of any corporate governance regime.

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 brings simplicity to passive investing, smart beta, and factor investing, which is the fastest growing type of investment in the asset management industry.

The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "e;The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017.

This book assesses the performance of banks in India over the past several decades, and discusses their current status after fifty years of nationalization.

This short monograph examines the tense relationship between central bank independence and democratic legitimation, which has changed as the European Central Bank (ECB) has been entrusted with new tasks and faced unprecedented challenges.

Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula.

Effective decision making requires understanding of the underlying principles of financial markets and economics.

This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies.

More than 80% of the financial assets in the United States fall under the purview of a trustee.

This book provides a critical analysis of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between family firms and a wide range of accounting choices, including earnings management, accounting conservatism, and financial and non-financial disclosure.

In the aftermath of the last financial crisis, on both sides of the Atlantic banking supervisors were given new supervisory and enforcement powers, which are often of a substantially punitive-criminal nature.

This Handbook is a comprehensive anthology of up-to-date chapters contributed by current researchers in budget forecasting.

Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this book examines whether qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs), through their shareholder activism, have a meaningful positive impact on the corporate governance of firms listed on the mainland Chinese stock market.

Im Buch wird die Replikationsstrategie zur Bewertung zustandsabhängiger Zahlungsströme dargestellt, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf zeitdiskrete Modelle gelegt wird.

This book analyzes the impact of Basel Accord in Bangladesh.

This book provides an approach to sustainable decision-making rooted in financial and economic literature.

This book examines the international political economy of China's exchange rate policy making from theoretical and empirical perspectives.

This book is a simple and concise text on the subject of security analysis and portfolio management.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of takaful, which is an Islamic alternative to insurance.

This book combines insights from cultural economics, public finance, and tax law, providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction in the application of tax incentives for the creative industries.

This book encourages insurance companies and regulators to explore offering Islamic insurance to boost the insurance industry in India.

This book explores the methodological foundation of Islamic thought premised on the cardinal principle of Tawhid, meaning the Oneness of God as the universal law.

Taking continuous-time stochastic processes allowing for jumps as its starting and focal point, this book provides an accessible introduction to the stochastic calculus and control of semimartingales and explains the basic concepts of Mathematical Finance such as arbitrage theory, hedging, valuation principles, portfolio choice, and term structure modelling.

This instructor's manual complements the textbook Money: Theory and Practice which provides an introduction to modern monetary economics for advanced undergraduates, highlighting the lessons learned from the recent financial crisis.

Financial Technology (Fintech) has revolutionized the financial world as one of the fastest-growing segments in both the technology and financial sectors.

This book summarizes the state of the art in generalized linear models (GLMs) and their various extensions: GAMs, mixed models and credibility, and some nonlinear variants (GNMs).

This book, the second one of three volumes, gives practical examples by a number of use cases showing how to take first steps in the digital journey of banks and insurance companies.

This book considers the extent to which innovation and entrepreneurship are engines of economic prosperity.

This book continues the discussion on recent developments relating to ethical and sustainable issues in accounting & finance from Ethics and Sustainability in Accounting and Finance, Volume I.

This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

This book investigates the going-concern principle in the non-financial disclosure by companies in the international scenario proposing concepts and challenges to come.

This book explains the theoretical and policy issues associated with the taxation of financial services and includes a jurisdictional overview that illustrates alternative policy choices and the legal consequences of those choices .

This book addresses the integration of the Internet and finance which recently has been one of the most notable topics of discussion in the media, the business community, academia, and among policymakers, both in China and worldwide.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 2nd Advances in Business Research International Conference (ABRIC2016).

This book examines the success story of Seng Heng Bank (SHB), the successful acquisition of SHB by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), and the continuing sound management and performance of ICBC (Macau).

This book is the second edition of Behavioral Decision Theory, published in 2014.

This book focuses on the restructuring of distressed businesses, emphasizing the need for new financing during the restructuring process as well as during relaunch, and examines the role of law in encouraging creditor confidence and incentivizing lending.

Emerging economies arguably have different socio-fiscal dynamics compared to developed economies.

This book demystifies the developments and defines the buzzwords in the wide open space of digitalization and finance, exploring the space of FinTech through the lens of the financial services professional and what they need to know to stay ahead.

This book sheds new light on the Greek economic challenges and helps readers understand the current debt crisis.

Over the last several decades, there has been a growing interest in theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on all aspects of tax compliance and tax evasion.

This carefully written monograph covers the Sparre Andersen process in an actuarial context using the renewal process as the model for claim counts.

This book provides researchers and scholars with a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of earnings management theory and literature.