Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by E. Porras
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior. The text spans financial theory, its empirical tests and applications to real-world financial problems while keeping an entertaining easy-to-read style.
Corporate Governance and Financial Management
Computational Optimisation Modelling and Accounting Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
This book integrates corporate governance, corporate finance and accounting to formulate sound financial management strategies. It offers practical steps for managers using an integrated optimisation financial model to achieve good corporate governance practices which lead to lower risks and higher firm value.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In today's increasingly global and integrated financial climate, there is an amplified need for cooperation between regulators and supervisors across the globe in order to promote economic growth and maintain competitive markets. However, idiosyncrasies remain within local markets, and for those wishing...
Business Efficiency and Ethics
Values and Strategic Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
by Maura Campra, Gianluca Oricchio, Eugenio Mario Braja
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This book is an examination of the sovereign risk and debt limit issues facing the Eurozone (crisis/post crisis) and the need for alternative mechanisms to fund the capital investment requirements of the region.
The Shadow Banking System
Creating Transparency in the Financial Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The book shows the fundaments of the shadow banking system and its entities, operations and risks. Focusing on the regulatory aspects, it provides an original view that is able to demonstrate that the lack of supervision is a market failure.
The European Banking Union
Supervision and Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The 2008 financial crisis all but brought down the financial system and real economies of industrial countries. The Banking Union took a broad approach to resolve the structural fragmentation and distortions in the European banking system which were major obstacles to a working single market for financial...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
The 2007-2009 financial crisis has had a worldwide impact on banks and financial systems. It has also brought about major changes in Europe's financial regulatory framework which could lead to financing problems for SMEs. The book explores the restructuring process of banking and financial systems to its impact on the financing of SMEs.
Bitcoin and Mobile Payments
Constructing a European Union Framework
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book provides a critical analysis of The European Union’s regulatory framework for mobile payments and bitcoin. Chapters discuss the creation of the EU single market for e-payments and combine legal analysis with comparative case studies in their exploration of the regulatory challenges surrounding...
Deposit Guarantee Schemes
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Arnaboldi highlights the importance of one of the three pillars of the Banking Union, the common mechanism for insuring deposits. She claims that integrated financial markets require a European solution with regard to deposit insurance and that the establishment of a pan-European scheme could address the problems for large cross-border banks.
The New Plantation
Black Athletes, College Sports, and Predominantly White NCAA Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (PWI s) and black athletes, utilizing an internal colonial model. It provides a much-needed in-depth analysis to fully comprehend the magnitude of the forces at work that impact black...
Strategy and Sustainability
A Hardnosed and Clear-Eyed Approach to Environmental Sustainability For Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters; sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit....
Leading Spiritually
Ten Effective Approaches to Workplace Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Leading Spiritually reviews workplace spirituality from revered streams such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, but also from a stance of personal reflection, self-leadership, and powerful interpersonal relationships.
The Public Wealth of Nations
How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.
Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they...