Finance and the finance industry

Valuation and hedging of financial derivatives are intrinsically linked concepts.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the effects that foreign direct investment into China has had on the productivity, exporting activity, and innovation of Chinese domestic firms, as well as on the nation's labor markets.

This book will be an important addition to the limited number of books that discuss finance and accounting issues in East Asian countries.

For PhD finance courses in business schools, there is equal emphasis placed on mathematical rigour as well as economic reasoning.

Islamic Banking and Finance in South-East Asia by Angelo M Venardos has been a "e;must read"e; since its first edition in 2005 and has already been translated to Arabic.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, many financial institutions have been exploring new methods to measure investment product risk.

This book contains the proceedings of the KIER-TMU International Workshop on Financial Engineering 2010, which was held in Tokyo, in order to exchange new ideas in financial engineering among industry professionals and researchers from various countries.

The early exercise opportunity of an American option makes it challenging to price and an array of approaches have been proposed in the vast literature on this topic.

Bridging the GAAP: Recent Advances in Finance and Accounting lies at the intersection of the two disciplines.

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises.

Euro Bonds: Markets, Infrastructure and Trends presents the most recent developments in the Euro bond market.

Modeling and Pricing of Swaps for Financial and Energy Markets with Stochastic Volatilities is devoted to the modeling and pricing of various kinds of swaps, such as those for variance, volatility, covariance, correlation, for financial and energy markets with different stochastic volatilities, which include CIR process, regime-switching, delayed, mean-reverting, multi-factor, fractional, Levy-based, semi-Markov and COGARCH(1,1).

Computational finance is an interdisciplinary field which joins financial mathematics, stochastics, numerics and scientific computing.

This edited volume presents the most recent achievements in risk measurement and management, as well as regulation of the financial industry, with contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners such as Robert Engle, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Viral Acharya, Torben Andersen, Zvi Bodie, Menachem Brenner, Aswath Damodaran, Marti Subrahmanyam, William Ziemba and others.

This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making.

This annual publication provides an overview of the most important developments in global credit markets and the regulatory landscape.

The book provides a comprehensive "e;map"e; of China's financial markets and institutions based on objective data.

The aim of this book is to document, on a solid and convincing foundation, two public policy mistakes of the United States Government that have been extremely costly.

This outstanding collection of articles includes papers presented at the Fields Institute, Toronto, as part of the Thematic Program in Quantitative Finance that took place in the first six months of the year 2010.

This book is the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Finance 2011, held in Kyoto in the summer of 2011 with the aim of exchanging new ideas in financial engineering among researchers from various countries from both academia and industry.

This book discusses calendar or seasonal anomalies in worldwide equity markets as well as arbitrage and risk arbitrage.

Financial Economics, Risk and Information presents the fundamentals of finance in static and dynamic frameworks with focus on risk and information.

Weather derivatives provide a tool for weather risk management, and the markets for these exotic financial products are gradually emerging in size and importance.

Interest rate modeling and the pricing of related derivatives remain subjects of increasing importance in financial mathematics and risk management.

This book offers an introduction to wavelet theory and provides the essence of wavelet analysis - including Fourier analysis and spectral analysis; the maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform; wavelet variance, covariance, and correlation - in a unified and friendly manner.

This book analyzes in depth all major derivatives debacles of the last half century including the multi-billion losses and/or bankruptcy of Metallgesellschaft (1994), Barings Bank (1995), Long Term Capital Management (1998), Amaranth (2006), Societe Generale (2008) and AIG (2008).

The Beijing Olympics in 2008 marks the beginning of an era of new business opportunities in China for 1.

There is a great deal of confusion regarding the factors that led to Enron's collapse.

There is an endless supply of rave reviews for Alan Greenspan and the Fed.

This book covers several new areas in the growing field of analytics with some innovative applications in different business contexts, and consists of selected presentations at the 6th IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence.

The book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, implications for India and emerging economies related to trade and development interface, and analysis of sector level growth and development in India.

The book discusses the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance.

This book continues the discussion on recent developments relating to ethical and sustainable issues in accounting and finance from Volumes I and II, looking into topics such as the importance of good governance in accounting, tax, auditing and fraud examination, ethics, sustainability, environmental issues and new technologies and their effects on accounting and finance, focusing in particular on environmental and sustainability reporting in the oil and gas and banking sectors.

This book explores research that contributes to the current literature on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that experts use to examine social investment.

This book addresses the gaps in the present institutional structure of inclusive finance framework in India.

This book discusses how Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is practiced in developed and developing economies.

"e;National finance"e; is a new concept launched by the author in his book National Finance - A Chinese Perspective, a unique monograph that differs from other financial publications dealing with general topics in public finance.

This book is a collection of academic lectures given on fintech, a topic that has been written about extensively but only from a business or technological point of view.

The global halal industry is likely to grow to between three and four trillion US dollars in the next five years, from the current estimated two trillion, backed by a continued demand from both Muslims and non-Muslims for halal products.

This book examines the relationship between family influence and financial performance and non-economic goals in small and medium family-owned enterprises (SME) in Portugal.

The book presents a comprehensive and incisive analysis of Structural transformation which is among the most relevant and crucial themes of contemporary economics.

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

This book focuses on the Chinese context to investigate how informal institutions (Confucian culture and its dimensions, religion, political connections) in China affect accounting behaviors.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in July 25-28 2020.

This book examines the capital structure dynamics in Indian MSMEs, offering empirical evidence to better understand the financial practices within entrepreneurial settings.

This book focuses on the legal and social aspects of corporate governance through doctrinal and empirical research papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Governance Fraud Ethics and Social Responsibility held at National Law University Delhi in 2018.

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

The area of behavioral finance, though relatively young, has matured and spread beyond its initial objectives: to demonstrate the fallibility of the efficient market hypothesis, to shake the belief in the ubiquity of rational decision making, and to convince the finance world of the importance of psychological biases in decision making.