Princeton University Press: 2605 books
Irrational Exuberance
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008–9 financial crisis. With...
The Subprime Solution
How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures...
The Bankers' New Clothes
What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however, that a safer banking system would require sacrificing lending and economic growth. The Bankers' New Clothes examines this claim and the narratives used by bankers, politicians, and...
This Time Is Different
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and...
by John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo, A. Craig MacKinlay
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
The past twenty years have seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets. Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities regulation....
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv--the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity--all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental...
Codes of Finance
Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former employee of one of the world’s leading investment banks, takes...
Plight of the Fortune Tellers
Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Today's top financial professionals have come to rely on ever-more sophisticated mathematics in their attempts to come to grips with financial risk. But this excessive reliance on quantitative precision is misleading--and puts everyone at risk. In Plight of the Fortune Tellers, Riccardo Rebonato forcefully...
Guaranteed to Fail
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to $150 billion, and substantially more will be needed. The U.S. economy--and by extension,...
Yield Curve Modeling and Forecasting
The Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Understanding the dynamic evolution of the yield curve is critical to many financial tasks, including pricing financial assets and their derivatives, managing financial risk, allocating portfolios, structuring fiscal debt, conducting monetary policy, and valuing capital goods. Unfortunately, most...
Capitalism without Capital
The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than...
Mastering 'Metrics
The Path from Cause to Effect
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the...
The Empire Trap
The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement...
Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review
“Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers.”--Financial Times
In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...