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New Perspectives on the Bank-Firm Relationship Lending, Management and the I…
This book analyses the connections between the banking industry in Europe and the companies it finances. Ferretti specifically studies how these bonds have evolved over time and questions whether now is the time for a change in the relationship’s dynamics. Chapters discuss the role of bank lending in firms’ financing during the recent financial crisis, as well as issues in credit risk manag…
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- 1
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- 2523-336X
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- XI, 184
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-53109-4
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- XIII, 321
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Finance, Insurance and Investment
This book is devoted to recent developments and applications of multiple criteria decision aid tools in the field of finance, insurance and investment. It illustrates recent methods and procedures designed to solve problems related to finance, insurance and portfolio selection formulated through a mathematical programming framework and for which a large number of conflicting and incommensurable…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21157-2
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- XIV, 272
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- Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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The Validation of Risk Models A Handbook for Practitioners
This book is a one-stop-shop reference for risk management practitioners involved in the validation of risk models. It is a comprehensive manual about the tools, techniques and processes to be followed, focused on all the models that are relevant in the capital requirements and supervisory review of large international banks.
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- 978-1-137-43696-2
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Monetary Analysis at Central Banks
Whatever happened to the money supply? This book explains how the analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is undertaken at the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and (as an example of a developing country) the Bank of Tanzania. The book also explores how this analysis relates to these central banks' monetary policy strategies and how it feeds into policymaking. An editorial introduct…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-59334-4
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- XI, 139
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Emerging Economies During and After the Great Recession
The International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series explores the latest developments in political economy. This twelfth volume presents a collection of eight papers, analysing the emergence and economic problems of the emerging economies during and after the international financial crisis of 2007–8 and the subsequent Great Recession. The contributions range from an analysis of the …
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-48555-7
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- XIV, 318
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The Shadow Banking System
The book shows the fundaments of the shadow banking system and its entities, operations and risks. Focusing on the regulatory aspects, it provides an original view that is able to demonstrate that the lack of supervision is a market failure.
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- 978-1-137-49613-3
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Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective
Focusing on life insurance and pensions, this book addresses various aspects of modelling in modern insurance: insurance liabilities; asset-liability management; securitization, hedging, and investment strategies. With contributions from internationally renowned academics in actuarial science, finance, and management science and key people in major life insurance and reinsurance companies, ther…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-29774-3
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- XVI, 255
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- EAA Series
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Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare: Challenges for the Social Work …
The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised and implemented. However, post-colonialism, globalisation, migration and the associated implications for human rights, social justice and social welfare policies contest the idea of a clearly defined space for social work and present new challenges for…
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- 9781317431183
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- 362.1 TRA t
Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressi…
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- 9781800732353
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- 301 MOR m
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