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Evaluating Country Risks for International Investments
Tools, Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This unique volume presents a trailblazing project of country risk analysis for international investments. It develops an innovative range of tools and techniques on the cutting edge of financial theories and practices for assessing and incorporating country/political risk in cross-border investment...
Mathematical Methods for Foreign Exchange
A Financial Engineer's Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2001
This comprehensive book presents a systematic and practically oriented approach to mathematical modeling in finance, particularly in the foreign exchange context. It describes all the relevant aspects of financial engineering, including derivative pricing, in detail. The book is self-contained, with...
by Luca Spadafora, Gennady P Berman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
This book provides simple introduction to quantitative finance for students and junior quants who want to approach the typical industry problems with practical but rigorous ambition. It shows a simple link between theoretical technicalities and practical solutions. Mathematical aspects are discussed...
by Matheus R Grasselli, Lane P Hughston
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
This outstanding collection of articles includes papers presented at the Fields Institute, Toronto, as part of the Thematic Program in Quantitative Finance that took place in the first six months of the year 2010. The scope of the volume in very broad, including papers on foundational issues in mathematical...
Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility
Emerging Markets Focus
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
While emerging market economies do not have a mature market structure yet, there is a need for research on corporate governance practices in these economies from different perspectives, including corporate social responsibility. Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Markets...
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
An Early History of Unanticipated Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and delay changes to the planet's climate. A widespread concern among many of the participants in...
Singapore's Fiscal Strategies for Growth
A Journey of Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Singapore's fiscal strategies have helped sustain the country's growth as a small and open economy. This book is a pioneering effort in terms of providing a non-technical, holistic view of Singapore's strategies. The author, formerly Director of Fiscal Policy in Singapore's Ministry of Finance and...
Health Policy Reform in China
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives...
The Tangram Puzzle Book
A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
THE TANGRAM is one of the oldest types of dissection puzzles in the world that originated from China. It traditionally requires the participant to arrange seven pieces (or "tans") into a shape just by looking at the given silhouette.
LEARN WHILE PLAYING The puzzles in this unique...
by Donald Schnedeker, Harold Bierman <b>Jr.</b>
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This unique book brings together thoughts of great men and women, not found elsewhere as a complete set, that hold special interest for managers. The ideas contained within are universal and apply to all aspects of civilization; as such, they are relevant to both work and life.
The book also...
Macroeconomics
(With Study Guide CD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
This book presents the stylized facts on the important variables (output, inflation, money supply and interest rates, etc.) of the macro economy and uses them to differentiate how well particular economic theories perform or fail to do so. On the determination of aggregate demand, this book presents...
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How Individuals, Teams, and Companies Excel
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2008
How do world-class performing individuals, teams, and companies do what they do? Would you like to know how to perform at your best on a regular basis? This book reveals the results of research involving interviews with hundreds of world-class performers in athletics, business, music, medicine and...
Research Methods
A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
For many students, doing research is often a joyless struggle. This book provides practical advice on how to do research in a concise way. It uses classic examples to show how experts conduct their research in different fields, allowing this book to be used in different disciplines.
Research...
by Russell S Winer, Scott A Neslin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The field of marketing science has a rich history of modeling marketing phenomena using the disciplines of economics, statistics, operations research, and other related fields. Since it is roughly 50 years from its origins, The History of Marketing Science is a timely review of the accomplishments...