Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
The Empowered Investor
7 Principles for Strategic Wealth Creation in a New Financial World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Take control of your investment decisions
The investment industry is in a state of inertia. Recent events highlight an overreliance on mathematical foundations and flawed investment models. Investors need to find new paths to effective wealth creation.
The Empowered Investor provides...
Discounting, LIBOR, CVA and Funding
Interest Rate and Credit Pricing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Providing the most up-to-date tools and techniques for pricing interest rate and credit products for the new financial world, this book discusses pricing and hedging, funding and regulation, and interpretation, as an essential resource for quantitatively minded practitioners and researchers in finance.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
A comprehensive review of contemporary research in management accounting. Provides a thorough critical analysis of recent issues published in the management accounting literature and identifies gaps for future research in each issue reviewed.
Financial Crisis
The United States in the Early Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This book offers a critical look at prominent theories of financial crisis to try to understand how prepared the profession is for identifying the next financial crisis. An analysis of the first financial crisis of the twenty-first century serves as a starting point for rethinking the efficacy of existing economic models and theories.
Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets
How Psychology Influences Investors and Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Behavioral Finance helps investors understand unusual asset prices and empirical observations originating out of capital markets. At its core, this field of study aids investors in navigating complex psychological trappings in market behavior and making smarter investment decisions. Behavioral Finance...
Islamic Finance in Western Higher Education
Developments and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This is the first of its kind in its topical coverage of the developments and prospects of Islamic finance education at Western higher education. Intended to establish itself as a unique reference for academics and researchers this book gives an insight into ethics and values in curricula development at business schools and in finance departments.
Value-Based Working Capital Management
Determining Liquid Asset Levels in Entrepreneurial Environments
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Value-Based Working Capital Management analyzes the causes and effects of improper cash flow management between entrepreneurial organizations with varying levels of risk. This work looks at the motives and criteria for decision-making by entrepreneurs in their efforts to protect the financial security...
The Nigerian Banking Sector Reforms
Power and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
This is the first comprehensive book on the politics and economics of financial sector consolidation in an emerging market in West Africa. It draws on the author's twenty years experience working with multinationals in this oil-rich zone, to address key issues and examine banking reform in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
by Michael C. I. Nwogugu
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This book explores why Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) are not necessarily accurate or efficient tools for valuation and decision-making. The author specifically addresses the biases and framing effects inherent in the NPV/MIRR/IRR model and in related approaches...
The New Silk Road
How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road. This is a fully revised and updated account of how China is spurring growth in the Arab world, taking into account new developments that have taken place since the first edition.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis, highlighting areas of major policy and academic interest. The book includes ten chapters analysing contrasting issues such as intellectual capital, cost efficiency, bank stability, credit risk and business models for the wealth management industry.
Digitizing Government
Understanding and Implementing New Digital Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
For businesses large and small, investment in digital technologies is now a priority essential for success. Digitizing Government provides practical advice for understanding and implementing digital transformation to increase business value and improve client engagement, and features case studies from the private and public sectors.
The Role of Creative Ignorance
Portraits of Pathfinders and Path Creators
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques. In particular, it investigates the market microstructure of foreign exchange and futures markets.