Finance category: 129477 books
by Ouvrage Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Au début du xxie siècle, les États-Unis étaient devenus la puissance économique incontestée et la finance avait joué un rôle déterminant dans cet avènement. Mais la crise financière a conduit le gouvernement américain à réformer la réglementation de son industrie financière. L’adoption...
by Jan Heise
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: A+, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth (Charlton Business School), course: Masters Kurs: Finance for Decision Making, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Two of the most...
From Asian to Global Financial Crisis
An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance. The author, an Asian regulator, examines how old mindsets, market fundamentalism, loose monetary policy, carry trade, lax supervision, greed, cronyism, and financial engineering caused both the Asian crisis of the late 1990s...
Hidden Interests in Credit and Finance
Power, Ethics, and Social Capital across the Last Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal valued commodites. Guiding readers through the...
Hyperinflation
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Since 1970s when the world was experiencing an "age of inflation", a great volume of academic research about hyperinflation has been conducted. However, it is also true that parrot-like superficial talks abound, without questioning the economic, political and social foundations existing...
Financing Urban Shelter
Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the...
by Geneviève Verdier, Marc Mr. Quintyn
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Financial sector development in sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind the rest of the world, despite some recent positive achievements. There is a growing consensus that financial development fosters economic growth, so why has more not been done to spur financial advancement in Africa? This...
by Ruey S. Tsay
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
A complete set of statistical tools for beginning financial analysts from a leading authority
Written by one of the leading experts on the topic, An Introduction to Analysis of Financial Data with R explores basic concepts of visualization of financial data. Through a fundamental balance between...
Reinventing the CFO
How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles And Add Greater Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2006
On the heels of a decade of scandals and the new pressures brought on by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporations expect far more from their CFOs than simply managing the numbers. They expect decision-making support and performance insights that can improve bottom-line results. Unfortunately, the complexity...
The Lost Curriculum
What School Didn't Teach Us About Personal Finance
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Let's face it, we go to high school and college and have some of the best years of our life! While there, we are required to take courses in Math, Science, English and many other subjects, some of which we will never use again! Why is it that Personal Finance, which is arguably the most important...
by Olivier Coispeau, Stéphane Luo
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships in China provides a fast and accessible framework to external growth in China, and is an attempt to accurately describe the main operative conditions and in particular the most common pitfalls for foreign businessmen. The business cases in this book illustrate...
by RoyE. Johnson, BA, Upsala College;MBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Shareholder Value presents a powerful and useful toolkit of market-based perspectives, analytic approaches, valuation techniques, and specific financial metrics for use in everyday business life.
The author helps a broad spectrum of professionals understand the salient points and real world...
Financial Hacking
Evaluate Risks, Price Derivatives, Structure Trades, and Build Your Intuition Quickly and Easily
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book teaches financial engineering in an innovative way: by providing tools and a point of view to quickly and easily solve real front-office problems. Projects and simulations are not just exercises in this book, but its heart and soul. You will not only learn how to do state-of-the-art simulations...
by Lukasz Snopek
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, many will agree that it is time for a fresh approach to portfolio management. The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management provides practical investment advice for building a robust, diversified portfolio.
Written by a high-profile...