Finance and the finance industry

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.

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.

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 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.

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of monetary policy, banking supervision and financial stability in the euro area.

This book presents the economic foundation of international equity investments providing a practical guide to invest in international equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

This book tells the story of the euro crisis in Cyprus from the inside.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the Mauritian economy and its financial system.

This book uncovers the idea of understanding cybersecurity management in FinTech.

This book provides a historical evaluation of banking reforms and structural changes in India over the past 25 years.

This book offers a series of statistical tests to determine if the "e;crowd out"e; problem, known to hinder the effectiveness of Keynesian economic stimulus programs, can be overcome by monetary programs.

This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between corporations and their various social obligations over the very long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

This book contains a selection of the contributions presented at the conference.

This book covers various aspects of business such as Entrepreneurship, HR management, Supply chain management, Marketing, Finance, and Globalization within the Africa Context, especially as digital technology changes the African society.

This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future.

This book investigates the economic decisions behind the implementation of public-private partnerships (PPPs).

This is the third edition of this well-received textbook, presenting powerful methods for measuring insurance liabilities and assets in a consistent way, with detailed mathematical frameworks that lead to market-consistent values for liabilities.

This book explores how the global financial and European sovereign debt crises have forced small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMEs) to reassess and adapt their funding strategies.

This book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important and fundamental elements for the management of team sports organisations.

The sustainability of public pension systems has become an important aspect for governments and institutions worldwide.

This book explores human decision-making heuristics.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2016, held in Frankfurt, Germany, in December 2016.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

This book critically explores past and present principles of central banking, and outlines a new framework for future stabilization policy.

The book explores the endogenous creators of inside money, the commercial banks, and their key role in igniting the 2007-8 monetary crisis and the aftermath of the Great Recession.

This book investigates how development institutions created and promoted marketized development financial instruments to increase the speed and scope of assistance by leveraging private financial markets for development objectives.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

Microfinance is a renowned albeit controversial solution for giving financial access to the unbanked, even if micro-transactions increase costs, limiting outreach potential.