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Achieving Financial Stability
Challenges to Prudential Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
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. The resulting high cost of the crisis in terms of lost aggregate income and wealth, and increased...
China
Development and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
China has achieved significant socio-economic progress and has become a key player on the international stage after several decades of open-door and reform policy. Looking beyond China's transformation, this book focusses on the theme of governance which is widely regarded as the next most critical...
Goh Keng Swee on China
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economic...
by Siwei Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
China has initiated and implemented its economic reforms for over 30 years, however, the comprehensive economic reforms and opening up is still unfolding. The author was a state leader, who has personally engaged in China's economic policy-making process from 1999 to 2008, and is an economist, who...
Japan and China
A Contest in Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Since the opening up of China in 1979, the country had experienced phenomenal economic growth over the decades and overtook Japan as the second-largest economy in 2010. With the establishment of a conservative administration led by Shinzo Abe in December 2012 and Xi Jinping's ascendance to power as...
by Francisco L Rivera-Batiz, Luis A Rivera-Batiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Income Inequality in OECD Countries
What are the Drivers and Policy Options?
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive review of income inequality issues in the OECD in a cross-country setting. It presents a wealth of data and analysis on the formation of inequality and identifies groups of countries that share similar inequality patterns. It also reviews developments at the extremes...
Job Placements and Job Shifts in China
The Effects of Education, Family Background and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes — individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s....
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Why We Fail at Helping Others
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief...
by Leonard C MacLean, William T Ziemba
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well. There are a number of new papers that have never been published before especially in Part II.
by William T Ziemba
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Great Investment Ideas is a collection of articles published in the Journal of Portfolio Management from 1993 to 2015. The book contains useful ideas for investment management and trading and discusses the methods, results and evaluation of great investors. It also covers important topics such as...
Stock Market Crashes
Predictable and Unpredictable and What to do About Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we mean that prices are rising just because they are rising and that prices exceed fundamental values.
by William T Ziemba, Leonard C MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This guidebook presents historical and new material to assist the reader to understand NFL game strategies and provides a winning betting strategy. The authors, William Ziemba and Leonard MacLean are professors, traders, financial analysts and sports enthusiasts. They covered ideas like the game's...
Stochastic Programming
Applications in Finance, Energy, Planning and Logistics
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book shows the breadth and depth of stochastic programming applications. All the papers presented here involve optimization over the scenarios that represent possible future outcomes of the uncertainty problems. The applications, which were presented at the 12th International Conference on Stochastic...