Finance and the finance industry

This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis.

This book thoroughly explores the characteristics and importance of bank CEOs against the backdrop of growing awareness of the social implications of CEO behavior for the performance and stability of the financial and economic system.

This book gathers several important texts to offer an overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.

This book presents an ethical theory for financial transactions that underpins the stability of modern economies.

This book presents a holistic exploration of the banking systems in Africa.

This book analyzes the emerging asset class of digital assets.

This book offers new insights and perspectives on the financial and banking sector in Europe with a special focus on Central and Southeastern European countries.

This book offers the first original study on banking crises management in Italy from 2014 to 2020 with a comprehensive overview of the resolution tools used.

The way in which leverage and its expected dynamics impact on firm valuation is very different from what is assumed by the traditional static capital structure framework.

This book introduces to basic and advanced methods for credit risk management.

This book provides a concise analysis of behavioural biases and their implications for financial decision making.

This book helps readers understand the widely documented distortion in the portfolio choice of individual investors toward proximate firms - the proximity bias phenomenon.

This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis.

This book covers the latest advances in the theory and practice of public investment management.

This book details the difference between the two rating industries, but this difference is converging all the time.

FinTech is an emerging field and most of the existing literature appears in the form of industry reports, consulting reports, working papers, and policy recommendations.

This book provides an advanced guide to correlation modelling for credit portfolios, providing both theoretical underpinnings and practical implementation guidance.

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon - wealth and profit - is pursued with little overt regard for morality.

This book examines whether Islamic finance and Islamic economics is challenging the orthodoxy of the money markets.

Globalisation and the governance of the international financial system have arrived at the crossroads, where either a coherent level playing field for the cross-border activities of banks and multinational enterprises is settled upon, or the risk of another crisis will build up again.

This Brief presents a study of SAX/GA, an algorithm to optimize market trading strategies, to understand how the sequential implementation of SAX/GA and genetic operators work to optimize possible solutions.

This contributed volume analyses and discusses how atmospheric carbon emissions can be prevented using carbon capture and removal technology and how renewable energies can be used to reduce carbon emissions.

This book analyzes the revenues from the creation of currency by a central government.

Influenced by technological innovation, banks and their businesses are changing dramatically.

This edited volume seeks to identify the sustainability issues currently affecting the energy business and finance.

This book presents the best papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2020, held in Vilamoura, Portugal.

This book examines the business models, performance, and decision-making approaches employed by financial institutions in Central and Southeast Europe.

This book focuses on current issues impacting the Islamic banking system globally.

Composite indices are used by national and international organisations, as well as governments and corporations, to track various performance aspects of a country's economy and its people, evaluate progress, and engage constructively in policy dialogue; and they have long proven useful as communication tools and inputs into decision-making and policymaking.

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 expanded and enlarged third edition of Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos' popular Who's to Blame for Greece?

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This book outlines the origins of Danish Capitalism and prosperity, from a poor and devastated minor state in the 19th century to a consolidated universal mixed economy welfare state at the end of the 20th century.

This handbook presents the basic aspects of actuarial loss reserving.

This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries.

This book explores risk culture in banks following the financial crisis.

In this book, experts discuss how German real estate values have remained stable throughout the financial crisis, even though transaction volumes have been very volatile since 2005.

This book depicts and reveals the socioeconomic dynamics of the COVID-19 crisis, and its global, regional, and local perspectives.

The purpose of this book is to study the association of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) with financial performance, capital structure, innovative activities, corporate risk, working capital management and accounting quality.

This book is the first of its kind in several overlapping and rapidly developing fields that now dominate news headlines - among them the fields of crypto-currency, digital payments platforms, 'fintech,' and central bank digital currencies ('CBDCs').

In the wake of the 2016 U.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to modern day taxation issues.

Interest has always been a part of humans' daily economic life, and the concept of interest has attracted intense attention from economists, philosophers, religious scholars and lawmakers.

This book investigates small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) access to credit, the earning quality, and the cost of debt in the European Union.

Exploring the negative social impact of cyber-attacks, this book takes a closer look at the challenges faced by both the public and private sectors of the financial industry.

This book addresses the increasingly urgent question: How can governments be made more accountable for the quality of their environmental stewardship?

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With organic growth becoming more and more elusive, Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) activity within the RIA industry is at an all-time high.

This book explores the origins and development of the asset management profession in Britain as a distinct activity within financial services, independent of banks and stockbrokers.

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises.