Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions
A Study of their Objectives and Achievements
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a study of the objectives of Islamic Finance in the modern banking space and offers insight into the effects of changes and developments occurring in Islamic banking products and services.
The Public Debt Problem
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in America...
Basel III Credit Rating Systems
An Applied Guide to Quantitative and Qualitative Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
More than ever, banking competition is based on the ability to control the cost of risk and can only be managed with excellent internal rating models and very advanced risk management processes. This book is a comprehensive guide to quantitative and qualitative rating assessments with up-to-date methodologies in the international banking system.
by P. Mourdoukoutas
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As a game of economics, investing involves the basic principles of economics that help investors identify financial goals and constraints, and come up with the right asset and portfolio allocation. Mourdoukoutas outlines the rules for investing in irrational markets successfully.
Global Asset Management
Strategies, Risks, Processes, and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book focuses on all major aspects of the asset management industry including its regulations, strategies, processes, applied technologies and risks. It provides a serious resource for readers seeking greater depth and alternative opinions on specific industry developments, and breadth for specialists interested in the dynamics of the industry.
by T. Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Aimed at practitioners with no prior expertise in the subject, this book helps readers build basic real options models to aid in decision-making. Providing a pragmatic and informative approach, the authors introduce basic probability theories, before putting these theories into a real-world context.
The Life Cyclists
Fisher, Keynes, Modigliani and Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Read addresses the contributions of significant individuals to our understanding of financial decisions and markets. Great financial theorists created the basis for what we now know as personal finance and this volume describes four great minds in finance that forever established the role of the rate of return and life cycle decision-making.
The Corporate Financiers
Williams, Modigliani, Miller, Coase, Williamson, Alchian, Demsetz, Jensen, Meckling
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Corporate Financiers is the fifth book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of modern finance, this volume presents the ways in which a corporation creates value.
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The Rise of the Quants
Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?'
The Pillars of Finance
The Misalignment of Finance Theory and Investment Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Written by bestselling finance author Guy Fraser-Sampson, this is a provocative account of the severe limitations of modern finance, advocating a bold new way forward for the finance industry. The Pillars of Finance is a lively and provocative read, challenging some of the core beliefs of modern finance.
The Rise and Fall of an Economic Empire
With Lessons for Aspiring Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
We have seen many empires come and go. From the Roman Empire to the British Empire, we are now witnessing the decline of the US as a superpower. How do economic innovations foster global economic dominance, and how does the natural evolution of an economic empire eventually bring about its demise and replacement by other economic superpowers?
BP and the Macondo Spill
The Complete Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
The complete story of the devastating BP oil spill of 2010. The author puts forward an objective account of what happened, a documentation of the true costs, not the hyperbolic costs, and an explanation of the science and business of the spill and its remediation.
by Theron Muller, Steven Herder, John Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This collection offers a distinctly Asian voice for English language education and addresses some of the unique needs of Asian learners in EFL contexts. Teachers and researchers from nine Asian countries present some of the most current and innovative research in five distinct and fascinating areas of EFL teaching and learning.
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income
A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income argues that philosophers have focused too much on scalar freedom and proposes a theory of status freedom as effective control self-ownership: the power to have or refuse active cooperation with other willing people, or simply: freedom as the power to say no.