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Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government
In this book some of the world's leading economists and experts on Serra explore the enduring appeal of his 1613 Breve trattato.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-53996-0
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- IX, 374
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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- 330 ANT a
Pension Finance and Management
This open textbook is a living document of knowledge and skills needed by finance students and professionals to design, govern, and invest financial resources from savings set aside during the working years, either by law (e.g., Canada Pension Plan), by mutual agreement (e.g. occupational pension plan), or privately (e.g. Registered Retirement Savings Plan, Tax-Free Savings Plan). Saving for re…
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- 332 FUJ p
The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
Edited by two leading academics in this area, and with contributions from 25 prominent market practitioners and academics over 16 chapters, this Handbook covers shipping finance and banking, maritime financial management and investments. As such, it includes: shipping markets; asset backed finance; shipbuilding finance; debt finance; public and private equity and debt markets; structured financ…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-46546-7
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- XLII, 430, 20 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
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- The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
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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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- 1
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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 Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Ma…
Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussion on issues related to the size, spread and frequency of financial crises has captivated a wide variety of audiences. Why has the world economy experienced such a marked increase in financial transactions and private and public indebtedness since the 1980s? How have middle-income developing countries suddenly become a part of this dynamic? And, most imp…
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- 1
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- 978-1137553638
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- 2635 KB
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- The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets
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The Icelandic Financial Crisis
This book presents a detailed account of Iceland’s recovery from the tumultuous banking collapse that overturned its financial industry in 2008. Early chapters recount how Iceland’s central bank was unable to follow the quantitative easing policies of the time to print money and save the banks, while serving the world´s smallest currency area. The book goes on to explore how the government…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-39455-2
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- XVI, 349, 23 illustrations in colour
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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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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- Ed. 1
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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
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