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Public Finance and Islamic Capital Markets
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book addresses the financing of government budgets with non-debt-creating flows through risk-sharing capital market instruments. It offers a comparative analysis with conventional finance to demonstrate the ability of Islamic capital market instruments to create an impetus for economic stability...
Advanced Simulation-Based Methods for Optimal Stopping and Control
With Applications in Finance
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This is an advanced guide to optimal stopping and control, focusing on advanced Monte Carlo simulation and its application to finance. Written for quantitative finance practitioners and researchers in academia, the book looks at the classical simulation based algorithms before introducing some of the new, cutting edge approaches under development.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume aims to collect new ideas presented in the form of 4 page papers dedicated to mathematical and statistical methods in actuarial sciences and finance. The cooperation between mathematicians and statisticians working in insurance and finance is a very fruitful field and provides interesting...
Investing with Impact
Why Finance is a Force for Good
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Investing with Impact: Why Finance Is a Force for Good outlines the roadmap to reinvigorating a skeptical public and demoralized financial services industry by making the case that, contrary to popular misconception, finance is not the cause of the world's problems; in fact, it can provide the solution....
Nonprofit Finance for Hard Times
Leadership Strategies When Economies Falter
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
How to make strategic plan to help your nonprofit navigate turbulent financial waters and achieve strengthened revenues
During this time of upheaval and instability with the country's financial markets and economy, you might be wondering how your nonprofit can emerge stronger from this unprecedented...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book describes specific problems and proposes solutions for different areas of finance in Central and Southeastern European countries. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, from monetary economics and electronic money to capital markets, banking and insurance, it comprises theoretical and empirical...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
In most countries the economic structure and financial landscape are dominated by corporations. A critical examination of the various facets of the corporate economy is thus vitally important. In Managerial Finance in the Corporate Economy the authors use new theoretical apparatus and empirical evaluations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries. The contributors analyse and discuss the effects of the recent financial crises on the economic growth and performance in various countries. The volume covers...
Handbook of Ratings
Approaches to Ratings in the Economy, Sports, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This handbook presents a systematic overview of approaches to, diversity, and problems involved in interdisciplinary rating methodologies. Historically, the purpose of ratings is to achieve information transparency regarding a given body’s activities, whether in the field of finance, banking, or...
by Joel Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book presents a novel approach to characterizing markets in quantitative terms. The examples cut across the world of interest rates, price of gold, stock market and corporate worlds that the stock market rests on, and the pricing of options on financial instruments. The emphasis is on methods...
by Gagandeo Prasad Yadava
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context. A bank is a financial intermediary and money creator that creates money by lending money to a borrower, thereby creating a corresponding...
Green Finance and Sustainability
Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The green movement refers to an emphasis on goods and services considered to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment, that have provided a low carbon roadmap to economic growth disassociated from greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions. Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware...
Betting on China
Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The promise and perils of Chinese stocks in American stock markets
Betting on China takes readers on an illuminating journey into the often confusing and poorly understood world of Chinese stock issuances in America. With insightful qualitative and quantitative analysis, it looks at the phenomenon...
Financing Schools and Educational Programs
Policy, Practice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Al Ramirez writes on the subject of how the public schools in the United States are financed and how other funds are raised for educational programs in elementary and secondary schools. A context for public school finance is provided throughout the volume by grounding each topic in historical, policy,...