Corporate category: 1876 books
by Gregor Dorfleitner, Lars Hornuf, Matthias Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book focuses on market developments of crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowdlending, social trading, robo-advice, personal financial management, online payment and mobile payment in Germany. FinTech companies are an important driver of innovation in the financial industry. By making financial transactions...
by Sarah Baker Munro
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Timberline is a ski lodge on the slopes of Mt. Hood, Oregon, only 65 miles from Portland. Between 1936 and 1938 and in the middle of the Great Depression, it was hand built and furnished through the Works Progress Administration. When Pres. Franklin Roosevelt came to Oregon in 1937 to dedicate the...
Empty Pleasures
The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production,...
Credit Risk Management
Pricing, Measurement, and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book introduces to basic and advanced methods for credit risk management. It covers classical debt instruments and modern financial markets products. The author describes not only standard rating and scoring methods like Classification Trees or Logistic Regression, but also less known models...
Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk
Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk Assessment and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners can see a more holistic and complete picture.
The New Frontier Investors
How Pension Funds, Sovereign Funds, and Endowments are Changing the Business of Investment Management and Long-Term Investing
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds. These are the organizations that are in the media's spotlight and whose leaders and employees command outsized salaries and bonuses. They are the supposed...
by Peter Leoni
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
A practical guide to basic and intermediate hedging techniques for traders, structerers and risk management quants. This book fills a gap for a technical but not impenetrable guide to hedging options, and the 'Greek' (Theta, Vega, Rho and Lambda) -parameters that represent the sensitivity of derivatives prices.
Bank Behaviour and Resilience
The Effect of Structures, Institutions and Agents
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis. Exploring the role of complex interactions among interdependent structures, institutions and agents defines this banking behaviour.
by Marcus Goncalves
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Reviews for the newest volume in The Technical Manager's Survival Guides book series. "Good read. This book is a template for managing complex businesses and contains information that every Asset Manager should know. Highly recommended." --James Willey, P.E., Vice President, Pearl Energy...
Private Equity
Opportunities and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
During the past few decades, private equity (PE) has attracted considerable attention from investors, practitioners, and academicians. In fact, a substantial literature on PE has emerged. PE offers benefits for institutional and private wealth management clients including diversification and enhancement...
by Carl Kowall
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This story of El Dorado Hills is about Allan Lindseys pursuit to create a completely new town.
It is not commonly understood about the total human, physical, and financial challenges required to create a new community from scratch. This story is about such an event beginning in the late nineteen...
Altreconomia 201 - Febbraio 2018
Clima, il cambiamento è già qui
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In questo numero:
- Reportage dal Kenya, dove il cambiamento climatico è realtà. Così il Lago Turkana sta scomparendo;
- Human Rights Defenders: come tutelare gli eroi di questo secolo. Intervista a Michel Forst, Relatore speciale delle Nazioni Unite sulla situazione dei difensori...
by Samaniego Villasante,Carlos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 3, 2010
ENGLISH: Spain has been for centuries the example of how the three main religious communities: Christian, Jews and Muslims can live together pacifically. The lessons of such experience can be used today for integrating the different groups in a modern organization and improve engagement and motivation...
by Alfonso Ballestero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
José Mª de Oriol y Urquijo (1905-1985) es uno de los empresarios y políticos más destacados del siglo XX y la cabeza visible durante varias décadas de la familia Oriol. Este libro recorre sus diferentes facetas como ingeniero, académico o banquero pero, sobre todo, destaca su vertiente política...