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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278805
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- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
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Investment Intelligence from Insider Trading
Learn how to profit from information about insider trading.The term insider trading refers to the stock transactions of the officers, directors, and large shareholders of a firm. Many investors believe that corporate insiders, informed about their firms' prospects, buy and sell their own firm's stock at favorable times, reaping significant profits. Given the extra costs and risks of an active t…
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- 9780262283434
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- 1 online resource (429 pages)
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- 650 SEY i
Birth of a Market: The U.S. Treasury Securities Market from the Great War to …
The market for U.S. Treasury securities is a marvel of modern finance. In 2009 the Treasury auctioned #8.2 trillion of new securities, ranging from 4-day bills to 30-year bonds, in 283 offerings on 171 different days. By contrast, in the decade before World War I, there was only about #1 billion of interest-bearing Treasury debt outstanding, spread out over just six issues. New offerings were r…
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- 9780262298674
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- 1 online resource (viii, 393 pages) :illustrations
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Pricing corporate securities as contingent claims
An examination of the relative value of securities in a corporation's capital structure, using the concept of contingent value analysis.In 1973, Fischer Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton pointed out that securities issued by a corporation can be priced as claims whose values are contingent on the value of the enterprise as a whole. The notion of treating corporate securities as contingent…
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- 9780262273480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) :illustrations
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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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Gründungsfinanzierung
Robert Hof untersucht die Bedeutung des Innovationsgrades der Geschäftsidee von Start-ups für deren Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten und analysiert, ob es Unterschiede in der Finanzierbarkeit von Start-ups mit mehr bzw. weniger innovativen Geschäftsideen gibt. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung liefern konkrete Hinweise, nach welchen Kriterien Risikokapitalgeber ihre Investitionsentschei…
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- 978-3-658-16377-8
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- Manajemen
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Venture Capital and the Inventive Process VC Funds for Ideas-Led Growth
The inventive process is the most important driver of economic growth. Venture capital (VC) funds have contributed a small, but critical, part to the inventive process. VC funds boost the inventive process by selecting a small number of radical ideas out a large flow of ideas and invest in their testing, development and commercialization. They bring together capital from general savings, manage…
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Asset Management and Institutional Investors
This book analyses investment management policies for institutional investors. It is composed of four parts. The first one analyses the various types of institutional investors, institutions which, with different objectives, professionally manage portfolios of financial and real assets on behalf of a wide variety of individuals. This part goes on with an in-depth analysis of the economic, techn…
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- 978-3-319-32796-9
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- XIII, 468
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Asset Management: Portfolio Construction, Performance and Returns
This book presents a series of contributions on key issues in the decision-making behind the management of financial assets. It provides insight into topics such as quantitative and traditional portfolio construction, performance clustering and incentives in the UK pension fund industry, pension fund governance, indexation, and tracking errors. Markets covered include major European markets, eq…
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- 978-3-319-30794-7
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- XIX, 369
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Assessing Relative Valuation in Equity Markets: Bridging Research and Practice
This book addresses the gap between the widespread use of stock market multiples in valuation practice and the frontiers of research on multiples. The book's approach is twofold: the authors first analyse the performance of multiples metrics in predicting the market price of a set of liquid and highly traded US stocks. The authors then employ these results to test profitable stock purchasing st…
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- 978-1-137-56335-4
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- XIV, 180
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- 658.155 ROS a
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