Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Finance, Politics, and Imperialism
Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.
by Craig Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity is geared towards...
Conservative Party Economic Policy
From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy-Making over the past 50 years providing an historical context for the political and economic events of today.
by Adrian Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In this book, Adrian Williamson investigates the processes by which Thatcherism became established in Tory thinking, and questions to what extent the politician herself is responsible for Thatcherism within the Conservative Party.
Social Security and Wage Poverty
Historical and Policy Aspects of Supplementing Wages in Britian and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This is the first book to examine debates about, and the practice of, state supplementing of wages. It charts the historical development of such policies from prohibition in the 1830s and how opposition to it was overcome in the 1970s, thereby allowing the increasing supplementation of the wages of poorly paid working people.
by Michael Beggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the decades after World War II, inflation undermined the aspiration for full employment in Australia. This book tells the story of how the Australian state was shaped by the confrontation with monetary instability: a pre-history of neoliberalism.
by Duncan Needham
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book charts the course of monetary policy in the UK from 1967 to 1982. It shows how events such as the 1967 devaluation, the collapse of Bretton Woods, the stagflation of the 1970s, and the IMF loan of 1976 all shaped policy. It shows that the 'monetarist' experiment of the 1980s was based on a fundamental misreading of 1970s monetary policy.
Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets
Opportunities for Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a practitioner and academician working with private equity investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers in over 100 developing countries around the world, this book uses anecdotes and case studies to illustrate and reinforce the key arguments for private equity investment in emerging economies.
Modern Derivatives Pricing and Credit Exposure Analysis
Theory and Practice of CSA and XVA Pricing, Exposure Simulation and Backtesting
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive guide for modern derivatives pricing and credit analysis. Written to provide sound theoretical detail but practical implication, it provides readers with everything they need to know to price modern financial derivatives and analyze the credit exposure of a financial instrument in today's markets.
Interest Rate Derivatives Explained
Volume 1: Products and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Aimed at practitioners who need to understand the current fixed income markets and learn the techniques necessary to master the fundamentals, this book provides a thorough but concise description of fixed income markets, looking at the business, products and structures and advanced modeling of interest rate instruments.
by P. Austing
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Smile Pricing Explained provides a clear and thorough explanation of the concepts of smile modelling that are at the forefront of modern derivatives pricing. The key models used in practice are covered, together with numerical techniques and calibration.
Quantitative Finance
Back to Basic Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The series of recent financial crises have thrown open the world of quantitative finance and financial modeling. This book brings together proven and new methodologies from finance, physics and engineering, along with years of industry and academic experience to provide a cookbook of models for dealing with the challenges of today's markets.
SABR and SABR LIBOR Market Models in Practice
With Examples Implemented in Python
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Interest rate traders have been using the SABR model to price vanilla products for more than a decade. However this model suffers however from a severe limitation: its inability to value exotic products. A term structure model à la LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is often employed to value these more complex...
Equity Derivatives and Hybrids
Markets, Models and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Since the development of the Black-Scholes model, research on equity derivatives has evolved rapidly to the point where it is now difficult to cut through the myriad of literature to find relevant material. Written by a quant with many years of experience in the field this book provides an up-to-date...