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Applied Investment Theory: How Markets and Investors Behave, and Why
Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world. Mutual funds are the most prominent, and doubly important as custodians of retirement savings. Despite this, there is no comprehensive description of fund manager behaviour, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one of the most economically significant puzzles in finance is why experienced, well-resourced fund mana…
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- 978-3-319-43976-1
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- XXV, 246
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- 339 COL a
The Influence of Blockholders on Agency Costs and Firm Value
Markus P. Urban investigates the influence of large shareholders (the so-called blockholders) on agency costs and firm value, thereby accounting for blockholder characteristics and blockholder interrelationships. The work provides a profound theoretical and empirical analysis on the nature and effect of shareholder engagement with due regard to the specifics of the German institutional environm…
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- 978-3-658-11402-2
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- XXXVI, 462,
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- Auditing and Accounting Studies
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The Price of Fixed Income Market Volatility
This book fills this gap and provides a unified evaluation framework of fixed income volatility while dealing with disparate markets such as interest-rate swaps, government bonds, time-deposits and credit. It develops model-free, forward looking indexes of fixed-income volatility that match different quoting conventions across various markets, and uncovers subtle yet important pitfalls arising …
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- 978-3-319-26523-0
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- XI, 250
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- Springer Finance
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The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events. This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academ…
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- 978-1-137-49449-8
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- XIX, 316
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- The Handbook of Post Crisis Financial Modelling
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Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 1: Proceedings …
This book is the first of the two volumes featuring selected articles from the 14th Eurasia Business and Economics conference held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2014. Peer-reviewed articles in this first volume present latest research breakthroughs in the areas of Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance and Banking, Institutional and International Economics, and Regional Studies. The contri…
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- 978-3-319-22596-8
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- 332
Analyzing Financial Data and Implementing Financial Models Using R
This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate such data, implement the models, and generate typical output expected for a particular analysis. …
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- 978-3-319-14075-9
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- XVI, 351
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- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
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- 332 ANG a
The Global Financial Crisis and the Indian Economy
After tracing the causes of the global financial crisis, the book focuses on two fundamental systemic issues connected with its manifestation: financial-sector regulation and the problem of the dollar-centric international monetary system, both of which have been widely cited among the important factors leading to the 2008 financial crisis. The important analytical question of monetary policy t…
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- 978-81-322-2395-5
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- XI, 142, 31 b/w illustrations
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- The Global Financial Crisis and the Indian Economy
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Building Trust in Information : Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
This book reports on the results of an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary workshop on provenance that brought together researchers and practitioners from different areas such as archival science, law, information science, computing, forensics and visual analytics that work at the frontiers of new knowledge on provenance. Each of these fields understands the meaning and purpose of represent…
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- 978-3-319-40226-0
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- 332
The Past and Future of International Monetary System
This book examines essential problems in the current International Monetary System, especially those concerning the International Standard. To do so, it focuses on the different monetary systems of today’s major currencies – the US dollar, the euro and the CNY, as well as the performance of the standards used in the international monetary system, i.e., the SDRs. In addition, it projects the…
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- 978-981-10-0164-2
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- XI, 91
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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New Challenges in Entrepreneurship and Finance:Examining the Prospects for Su…
Since the 2008 economic crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have faced serious financial problems and have been looking to financial institutions and governments for solutions and new proposals to address these issues. This book examines the new challenge in which firms receive sustainable funding that is in alignment with the company’s spending capacity. The purpose of this boo…
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- 978-3-319-08887-7
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- VIII, 278
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