Finance and the finance industry

Modeling the dynamics of energy markets has become a challenging task.

The study of heavy-tailed distributions allows researchers to represent phenomena that occasionally exhibit very large deviations from the mean.

For nearly two decades, countless non-profits in the U.

Drawing on the studies by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS), this book titled Balanced, Sustainable and Competitiveness Enhancement Study for Vietnam: A Critical Evaluation with Development Potentials, which is a joint research collaboration between the National Research Project on Improving Vietnam's Competitiveness and ACI-LKYSPP-NUS, provides a detailed assessment of the Vietnamese economy.

This book titled 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to ASEAN Economies recount the development experience of ASEAN over the past 50 years, describe the long-term mega-trends which will shape ASEAN's development trajectory, and propose a development vision with actionable policy recommendations for ASEAN to become the fourth-largest economy in the world by 2030.

The 2008 financial crisis shook the financial derivatives market to its core, revealing a failure to fully price the cost of doing business then.

Indonesia's diverse economic landscape and growing importance in the global and regional stages warrant deeper understanding of the economy at sub-national levels.

This book is the fifth annual project of the Asia Competitiveness Institute studying competitiveness at the sub-national level of Greater China.

The Korean stock market, ranked 11th in the world in terms of market capitalization of stocks in 2017, is a globalized market.

This book, written by Joakim Westerholm, Professor of Finance and former trading professional, is intended to be used as basis for developing courses in Securities markets, Trading, and Market microstructure and connects theoretic rigor with practical real world applications.

Trading floors in the 60s and 70s involved hundreds of people shouting bids and offers in multi-coloured jackets standing next to each other in different pits, gesticulating with their hands.

This volume presents lecture notes for a course in behavioral finance, most suitable for MBA students, but also adaptable for a PhD class.

This book exposes and comments on the consequences of Reg NMS and MiFID on market microstructure.

The central goal of this volume was to assemble outstanding scholars and policymakers in the field of financial markets and institutions and have them articulate significant market developments in their particular areas of expertise during the past few decades.

This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute introduces a new ease of doing business index that aims to allow for a better approximation of ease of doing business conditions in India's sub-national economies.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the important aspects of investment theory, security analysis, and portfolio selection, with a quantitative emphasis not to be found in most other investment texts.

The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 exposed the existence of significant imperfections in the financial regulatory framework that encouraged excessive risk-taking and increased system vulnerabilities.

Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance is a collection of Professor Emeritus Harold Bierman, Jr.

CVA, DVA, and FVA, which are the acronyms for credit, debit, and funding valuation adjustments, have become widely used by major banks since the financial crisis.

This book identifies accounting-based management control system practices for managing integrated and flexible supply chains and increasing customer satisfaction.

Employee stock options (ESOs) are an integral component of compensation in the US.

The first major global economic contraction of the 21st century, or the 'Great Recession', as it is more commonly known, began in December of 2007, and would prove to be one of the most catastrophic economic events in postmodern history.

This volume will introduce the reader to basic topics of corporate finance.

Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not require modeling the dynamics of interest rates.

The field of real options is concerned with the management and financial valuation of operational flexibility in business endeavors.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

'The book is an ideal complement to existing monographs on financial risk management.

This lecture notes provides an overview of budgeting and financial management in the public and non-profit sectors.

Volume 1 of 'The Strategic Analysis of Financial Markets,' - Framework, is premised on the belief that markets can be understood only by dropping the assumptions of rationality and efficient markets in their extreme forms, and showing that markets still have an inherent order and inherent logic.

Stochastic Drawdowns consists of some recent advances on Dr Hongzhong Zhang's own quantitative research of the well-known risk measures, drawdowns and maximum drawdowns.

The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 has had a major impact on large cross-border banks, which are widely blamed for the start and severity of the crisis.

This book studies China's Belt and Road Initiatives and the country's neighboring diplomacy.

Triggered by the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2007, the Financial Tsunami is the most serious global financial crisis since the Great Depression.

One thousand years ago, a handful of dynamic medieval city states developed trade at the frontier of capitalism.

The Chinese economy is growing at an unprecedented speed, and one of the emerging trends is angel investment.

Global Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach introduces students to basic principles of international corporate finance.

This book provides a basic grounding in the use of probability to model random financial phenomena of uncertainty, and is targeted at an advanced undergraduate and graduate level.

This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of academic and practitioner approaches to equity security valuation.

This book is the 2nd edition of the author's earlier book with the same title.

This book discusses in detail the workings of financial markets and over-the-counter (OTC) markets, focusing specifically on standard and complex derivatives.

The phenomenon of South-South FDI flows, particularly those arising from multinational companies from China and India, has generated considerable interest among policymakers, academics and the popular press in recent times.

This is one of the few books written in English by a Japanese author with expertise in finance, law and business.

This book provides a broad description of the financial derivatives business from a practitioner's point of view, with a particular emphasis on fixed income derivatives, a specific development on fixed income derivatives and a practical approach to the field.

This textbook provides an introduction to financial mathematics and financial engineering for undergraduate students who have completed a three or four semester sequence of calculus courses.

From the unique perspective of partial differential equations (PDE), this self-contained book presents a systematic, advanced introduction to the Black-Scholes-Merton's option pricing theory.

2nd Edition of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management: A Physicist's ApproachWritten by a physicist with over 15 years of experience as a quant on Wall Street, this book treats a wide variety of topics.

This book sets out some important developments in the evolution of capitalism and judges whether this evolution is in accord with fundamental American principles.

Latest Edition: Lectures on Corporate Finance (2nd Edition)This course of lectures - developed and taught at the Yale School of Management and the California Institute of Technology - introduces students to elementary concepts of corporate finance using a more systematic approach than is generally found in other textbooks.

As an empirical science, economics employs theoretical models to describe economic phenomena and processes.

NewsProfessor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).