Finance and the finance industry

This book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of changing business-government relations in China since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the country's increased integration with the global political economy.

This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

This book explores the issue of consumer financial education, responding to increased interest in, and calls to improve peoples' financial literacy skills and abilities to understand and manage their money.

This book provides an introduction to the state of the art in financial technology (FinTech) and the current applications of FinTech in digital banking.

This Palgrave Pivot argues that basic income at a decent level is, in fact, affordable.

This book focuses on the accounting change processes that drive integrated reporting in the public sector.

This book analyses and discusses current issues and trends in finance with a special focus on technological developments and innovations.

This book offers new insights on banking business models, risks and regulation proposals in the aftermath of the European financial crisis.

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships.

This edited collection presents recent developments, practical innovations, and policy reforms in the realm of microfinance in emerging markets.

Consideration of harmful short-termism in capital markets is prevalent amongst legal and business academics.

This book draws on financial, economic, and management theory in its exploration of the theory underlying risk and risk management at both micro- and macroeconomic levels.

This book illustrates the importance of bonds as a funding tool available to banks.

This book defines the dilemmas related to the interface between legal regulations and planning practice in the spatial management system.

This book employs a narrative analytical approach to explore all aspects of the debate surrounding auditor reporting on going concern uncertainty worldwide.

This book examines the adverse effects of complexity, information asymmetries, transaction costs, and uncertainty on investors' decision making.

This book describes various approaches in modelling financial risks and compiling ratings.

This book explains the theoretical structure of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and focuses on the application of PSO to portfolio optimization problems.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of asset price movement.

This book outlines the connection between the principles of proportionality of state intervention and strategies made by the European Union.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This edited volume brings together contributions from experts on a range of food security issues, and examines them through a number of case studies.

This book discusses the current landscape of our market economy, which is in the hands of financiers and billionaires who decrease competition as well as consumer power.

This textbook introduces readers to the most relevant aspects of Investment Evaluation in the context of enterprise evaluation.

This is the second of a two-part guide to quantitative analysis using the IBM SPSS Statistics software package; this volume focuses on multivariate statistical methods and advanced forecasting techniques.

This book is the first attempt to re-define objective risk.

This book discusses contemporary banking and monetary policy issues from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics.

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

This book shows how blockchain technology can transform the Internet, connecting global businesses in disruptive ways.

This book develops insights of digitalization and the future of financial services to originate an innovative approach to financial field, in order to underpin research and practice in the wide area of digital finance.

This book investigates how businesses can adapt their executive and fiscal practices to adopt an ethical, equal-opportunity approach.

This book provides an overview of the evolution of investment and risk, together with a synthesis of research on these developments.

This book answers the question: is Polish property tax legislation ready for the upcoming energy transformation?

This book analyses several aspects on the efficient resource allocation in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis.

The terms venture capital and private equity may differ across countries.

Humanitarian crises have become more frequent, complex and protracted.

This book addresses synergy management, which poses an important challenge for firms, advisors and practitioners involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

This book provides a preliminary attempt to understand the impact investors' preferences and characteristics.

This book is an introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the United Kingdom.

The overall objective of the book is to holistically assess the property tax systems in BRICS megacities.

Through a mixture of concepts and examples, the second edition of this book demystifies the variety of elements of financial accounting and uncovers the need-to-know information for certification in this field.

When the global financial crisis broke, central banks in both the US and the UK undertook massive asset purchase programmes which resulted in considerable increase in assets.

This book presents empirical research that addresses the latest issues and innovative products in Islamic banking and finance around the world.

EBES conferences have been intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long lasting academic cooperation.

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory.

This book explores the risk-return paradox in portfolio selection by incorporating multi-objective criteria.

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan.

Antitrust economics is a field that draws extensively on the economic theory of industrial organization, and the field's frontier is at the cutting edge of economic research.

This book looks at financial advisory from a behavioural perspective, and focuses on how the nature of the relationship between advisors and clients may affect the ability of the advisor to perform its functions.

Mergers & acquisitions are an essential instrument of strategic corporate management for companies of all sizes.