Finance category: 129477 books
by Alexandre Brouste
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Finance and insurance companies are facing a wide range of parametric statistical problems. Statistical experiments generated by a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables are frequent and well understood, especially those consisting of probability measures of an exponential...
by Clive Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers is an accessible, practical and easy to understand guide that will allow any manager to gain confidence in understanding financial matters, managing a budget and dealing with bankers, accountants and finance professionals.
A source of invaluable...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Although the concept of international public goods has been established, new international public needs arise by the day. For example, while there are many taxation problems and debates that have not yet been resolved internationally, many new tax-related problems like international transfer pricing,...
Feet Up by the Pool - How to Finance the Rest of Your Life
A DIY Guide to Saving and Investment
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Have you ever worried about affording a timely and comfortable retirement? Or considered what saving and investment advice you should give your children as they grow up in an ever-changing financial climate? The financial world has altered dramatically in the last 25 years and age-old advice, about...
Managed by the Markets
How Finance Re-Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and Southern...
by John Lanchester
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
"Refreshingly clear, sharp, and funny, How to Speak Money will help you understand not only what the language of finance means but also why it matters." —James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds
To those who don’t speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable....
Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook
Put the 9 Steps to Work
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
A One-on-One Financial Planning Session with Suze Orman.
With her national bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman launched a personal finance revolution—transforming the concept of money for the millions of people across the world who have embraced her message of understanding...
Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Inc. magazine calls it one of the best, clearest guides to the numbers” on the market. Readers agree, saying it’s exactly what I need to know” and calling it a must-read” for decision makers without expertise in finance.
Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become...
by Stephen J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This book shows how current and recent market prices convey information about the probability distributions that govern future prices. Moving beyond purely theoretical models, Stephen Taylor applies methods supported by empirical research of equity and foreign exchange markets to show how daily and...
Efficiently Inefficient
How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain...
by James Mr. Boughton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
This pamphlet is adapted from Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89, by the same author. That book is full of history of the evolution of the Fund during 11 years in which the institution truly came of age as a participant in the international financial system.
The World Economy after the Global Crisis
A New Economic Order for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
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The global credit crisis of 2008–2009 was the most serious shock to the world economy in fully 80 years. It was for the world as a whole what the Asian crisis of 1997–1998 was for emerging markets: a profoundly alarming wake-up call. By laying bare the fragility of...
Man vs. Markets
Economics Explained (Plain and Simple)
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Man Vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of NPR’s “Marketplace” is economics explained, pure and simple, for the layperson who wouldn’t know a “bond” from an “option,” and who believes that a “future” is when we’ll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully...
The Misbehavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't realize is that he has also been watching patterns of market change. In The (Mis)Behavior of...