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Finance-Led Capitalism
In Finance-Led Capitalism , bestselling author and economist Robert Guttmann provides a new conceptual framework to assess the dominate role of modern finance within the workings of our contemporary economic system. This lively and provocative read will challenge some of the core beliefs about modern finance and the world economy.
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- 978-1-137-52989-3
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- V, 268
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Finance and the Behavioral Prospect
This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum, irrational exuberance, and speculative bubbles. Behavioral accounting undermines the rational p…
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- 978-3-319-32711-2
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- XII, 343
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- Quantitative Perspectives on Behavioral Economics and Finance
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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers : Creating Opportunities T…
This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different countries. Readers will discover tools and instruments to capture the potentials of the grand societal c…
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- 9783319256283
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- XX, 273 pages 59 illustrations, 55 illustrations in color.
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- 338.7
Derivative Security Pricing Techniques, Methods and Applications
The book presents applications of stochastic calculus to derivative security pricing and interest rate modelling. By focusing more on the financial intuition of the applications rather than the mathematical formalities, the book provides the essential knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts of stochastic finance, and how to implement them to develop pricing models for derivatives as…
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- 9783662459065
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- 338.7
Derivatives and Hedge Funds
This book is a collection of papers celebrating 20 years of the Journal of Derivatives and Hedge Funds (JDHF)
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- 9781137554178
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- 330
Design and analysis of simulation experiments
This is a new edition of Kleijnens advanced expository book on statistical methods for the Design and Analysis of Simulation Experiments (DASE). Altogether, this new edition has approximately 50% new material not in the original book. More specifically, the author has made significant changes to the bookℓ́ℓs organization, including placing the chapter on Screening Designs immediately after…
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- 9783319180878
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- xv, 322 pages
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- 330
The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World
Worldwide, postal operators have been slow to address the threats from and opportunities created by electronic competition. The European Commission and member states are wrestling with these issues, while at the same time continuing to deal with the interrelated issues of implementing entry into postal markets and maintaining the universal service obligation. The Postal Accountability and Enha…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-24454-9
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- XIII, 345, 23 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
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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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Design for Experience Where Technology Meets Design and Strategy
Presents a strategic perspective and design methodology that guide the process of developing digital products and services that provide?real experience? to users. Only when the material experienced runs its course to fulfilment is it then regarded as?real experience? that is distinctively senseful, evaluated as valuable, and harmoniously related to others. Based on the theoretical background of…
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- 9783319143040
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- 338.71
The Public Economy in Crisis
This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance. Public non-market production makes up from a quarter to more than half of all economic activity in advanced democratic nation-states. Yet by imposing market precepts…
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- 978-3-319-40487-5
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- XV, 128
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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