Finance and the finance industry

This book presents a personal financial decision making model based on six dominant decision making pathways.

This book addresses contemporary and modern topics around business growth and economic development in Southeastern Europe.

This book aims to provide scholars, students and practitioners with a broad analysis - both theoretical and practical - of what it means to be a sustainable bank.

This book provides an applied theoretical approach to modern day business valuation.

This book reviews banking internationalization by considering the new paradigms of globalization.

This book presents a genetic algorithm that optimizes a grid template pattern detector to find the best point to trade in the SP 500.

This book offers a comparative analysis of how post-crisis restructuring has affected the evolution and prospects of small, locally-oriented banks.

This book explores the relationships between financial inclusion, poverty and inclusive development from Islamic perspectives.

This book highlights the key issues, opportunities and challenges facing African firms, industries, cities and nations in their quest to compete successfully in the global economy.

This volume offers new, convincing empirical evidence on topical risk- and risk management-related issues in diverse settings, using an interdisciplinary approach.

The book analyzes the role of technology in the redefinition of the competitiveness of insurance markets.

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies, open banking, virtual assets, and artificial intelligence have become the buzzword of this decade.

This book, now in its second edition, provides an in-depth overview of all segments of the structured finance business, with particular reference to market trends, deal characteristics and deal structuring.

This book analyzes how the Global Financial Crisis is portrayed in contemporary popular culture, using examples from film, literature and photography.

This book analyzes the effects of the recent crisis and evaluates potential solutions to the gridlock that is currently dominating the Eurozone and the European Union, concerning both the monetary policy and the budgetary and fiscal policy.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of current techniques for profit shifting and tax base erosion in the area of corporate taxation and measurement.

This book focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic research.

This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep.

Since the financial crisis, everyone is more aware of the need to be financially literate.

This book is a study of religious principles of good governance in our contemporary societies.

This book presents an in-depth overview of the most popular approaches to corporate valuation, with useful insights about innovations and possible improvements in that field.

This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This book offers a comparative perspective on 18 countries' legal regulation of crowdfunding.

In spite of the robust development of venture capital that has occurred over the last three decades, returns from venture capital have been declining.

This book focuses on the impact of high-frequency data in forecasting market volatility and options price.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the distribution of funds by the National Program for Local Development (PNDL), Romania's largest state funded budget program.

This book, designed to be a guide for practitioners who wish to advise ultra-wealthy families, focuses on the difference between the ultra-wealthy and the 'merely' wealthy.

The rise of the global financial industry is treated by many economists as a critical component of the rise of neoliberalism.

The cooperation and contamination among mathematicians, statisticians and econometricians working in actuarial sciences and finance are improving the research on these topics and producing numerous meaningful scientific results.

This compelling book examines the price-based revolution in investing, showing how research over recent decades has reinvented technical analysis.

This book, one of three volumes, showcases the effective transformation of companies providing banking and insurance services.

Empirical laws are rare in economics.

In this book, the authors investigate the rise in outward direct investment (ODI) from four emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC).

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the development of the German financial system, with a particular focus on financialization and the financial crisis, topics that have increasingly gained attention since the crisis and the discussion on the secular stagnation started.

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis.

This book describes the history of European integration and the Eurozone, before presenting ways in which the European Union can move forward.

The European experience suggests that the efforts made to achieve an efficient trade-off between monetary policy and prudential supervision ultimately failed.

The international financial crisis of 2007-08 and the ensuing scandals continue to raise important debates about the role of institutions in maintaining trust and fighting corruption, as well as in sustaining economic growth and political stability in a globalized world.

Absent evidence to the contrary, it is usually assumed that US financial markets developed in spite of government attempts to regulate, and therefore laissez faire is the best approach for developing critically important and enduring market institutions.

This book provides a detailed examination of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after closer integration in the European Union.

This edited volume showcases how the European cooperative banks have continued to evolve amid a new competitive scenario that resulted from the Global Financial Crisis started in Europe in 2008.

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques.

This book analyzes the whole path to justice: from the decision to enter the path to justice until justice is achieved and applies a mixed-methods approach using quantitative and qualitative data.

This book provides a unique, focused introduction to the analytical skills, methods and techniques in the assessment of credit risk that are necessary to tackle and analyze complex credit problems.

This book responds to key issues in strategic management control beyond the numbers.

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners.

Real profit after taxes is the most important management target.

This book provides a comprehensive overview and insight of virtually all multilateral institutions involved in lending for international socio-economic development.

In an organized and organic way, this book covers all the possible theoretical and empirical facets of delisting, adding to the well-developed literature on IPOs.

This book offers a structured, deductive approach to Austrian investing, beginning with an analysis of the current investing paradigm.