Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1989-01
Price: $89.95
Review Designing and Presenting Financial Information / Gower Pub Co:
Publication date: 2006-11-10
Dewey code: 342
List Price: $254.50
Price: $198.56
Review Market Abuse Regulation / Oxford University Press, USA:Market abuse prevention is critical in maintaining confidence in financial markets where competition for large financial transactions is growing more intense. The US has had regulations to counter such market abuse as insider dealing and market manipulation for many years. However, it is only recently that the UK and the EU have thought it necessary to introduce legislation giving their regulators powers to deter and punish market abuse. This book clarifies the meaning, impact and application of the new UK and EU regulations, issues which have generated much interest and apprehension. The book examines in detail the new UK market abuse regime, including: - The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 - The implementing regulations - The interpretation of the regulations by the Financial Services Authority - The conduct of investigations - The defences and appeals available against a finding of market abuse The work defines market abuse in order to isolate the ways in which financial institutions may fall foul of the rules on this subject. Consideration is also given to compliance and enforcement issues such as who is overseeing conduct on this area, what the enforcement procedure entails and an overview of the litigation process.
Creator: Dennis Campbell
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-07-22
Dewey code: 346.031
List Price: $175.00
Price: $175.00
Review Campbell Bank Liability / Springer:Considers bankers' liability covering the risks and remedies in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Denmark, the Netherlands, England, Wales, Finland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
Authors
- Christoph Spengel
- Otto H. Jacobs
Publication date: 2002-04-08
Dewey code: 336
Price: $59.95
Review Effective Tax Burden in Europe: Current Situation, Past Developments and Simulations of Reforms (ZEW Economic Studies) / Physica-Verlag Heidelberg:This book summarises the results of a study on behalf of the European Commission. It presents estimates of effective average tax rates (EATR) in five EU Member States plus the USA. The main aim is to compare EATR on domestic investments by companies. A secondary aim is to work out the impact of the different tax drivers on the tax burden. The comparison is made in six stages: - Comparison of the EATR for a base case - Effects of alternative assumptions on the economic data - Comparative effects of the German tax reform from 1 January 2001 - Consequences of the most important tax reforms since 1995 - Effects of hypothetical tax reforms - Comparison with results obtained from other studies.
Creator: Georg Kodek
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-09-20
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $157.90
Price: $153.90
Review Orders for Payment in the European Union (Civil Procedure in Europe) / Kluwer Law International:This text provides a comparative overview for the 15 EU countries, of orders for payment and similar proceedings. Each country's practice in this area is described and analysed by a national expert distinguished in the field of civil procedural law. The contributions are written in either English, French, or German, and are followed by summaries in both remaining languages. Bibliographies are included to enable the reader to locate material for further study. Each national report addresses the following issues: sources of law and general principles of orders for payment and similar proceedings; fields of application; requirements for the issuance of an order for payment; objection, appeal, and other remedies against orders for payment; and res judicata, enforceability and other effects of orders for payment. A comparative contribution by the editors analyzes the similarities and differences between the various European systems. Further, the editors discuss attempts to harmonize the law of civil procedure, which range from various recommendations of the Council of Europe to the 1998 draft of the Late Payment Directive, and provide concrete suggestions for a future harmonization or unification of this area of the law.
Publication date: 2005-01
Review Financial Management: Theory and Practice (Harcourt College Publishers Series in Finance) / Thomson South-Western:Continuing the four goals from the first edition, i. e. helping students to make good financial decisions, providing a solid text for the introductory MBA course, motivating students by demonstrating finance is relevant and interesting, and presenting the material clearly, this Tenth Edition promises to be the best yet. Written by a highly-acclaimed, best selling, author team, this text remains the only MBA-level text to present a balance of financial theory and applications.
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 361.70681
Price: $50.00
Review Charity Appeals: The Complete Guide to Success / J M Dent & Sons Ltd:
Publication date: 1994-01
Price: $125.00
Review Financial Engineering: Tools and Techniques to Manage Financial Risk (Financial Times) / Trans-Atlantic Publications:"Financial Engineering" is about using financial instruments to reduce or eliminate risk, or to restructure a financial exposure to improve its characteristics. This book shows how to apply the latest techniques by managing financial risks of all kind. The book carefully explains the tools of financial engineering and defines each instrument in depth. It describes the markets on which they are traded, and clearly illustrates how each product is priced and hedged. All applications are illustrated with fully-worked practical examples, and recommended tactics and techniques are "tested" by demonstrating the results with recent historical data. The book provides a solid understanding of the underlying theory as well as a clear demonstration of effective practice. The book:* clearly defines all the tools used in financial engineering* caefully explains instruments such as FRAs, financial futures, options, currency and interest-rate swaps, caps, floors, collars, corridors, swaptions, IRGs, SAFE's and many others* covers advanced products like barrier options, diff swaps, multi-factor and path-dependent options, leveraged floaters and other structured products* considers exactly how each one is used in practice* shows ways in which financial engineering techniques can be applied to manage risks in currencies, interest rates,equities and commodities.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 332.042
List Price: $150.00
Price: $51.30
Review Capital Flows, Saving, and Investment in the World Economy (Financial Sector of the American Economy) / Routledge:This study examines the major macroeconomic determinants and the structural relationships of current account variability, capital flows, saving and investment in open economies that are linked to the international financial markets. It explores the appropriateness of domestic policy responses (such as money stock growth, government spending, openness criteria, GDP growth) and the size of population or the impact of external shocks (such as exchange rate variability and the terms of trade uncertainty) for determining the domestic saving-investment comovement and capital flows worldwide. This analysis finds that even high positive correlations between national saving and investment rates could naturally arise within a perfect capital mobility framework where domestic policy variability and external shocks are likely to play a significant role for capital inflow.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-01-01
Dewey code: 343.5105248
List Price: $159.00
Price: $159.00
Review Taxation of Foreign Investment in the P. R. of China (1989) / Springer:
Authors
- Robert A. Goddard
- John W. Bitner
Dewey code: 332.10681
List Price: $310.00
Price: $264.91
Review Successful Bank Asset/Liability Management: A Guide to the Future Beyond Gap / Wiley:Two "virtuosos of risk management" show you how to close up the holes in your gap defenses-before the regulators call! Bankers Monthly dubbed them "virtuosos of risk management. [who have] raised A/L management to an art. " And this hands-on approach to asset/liability management from Bitner and Goddard is exactly what you'd expect from such banking leaders. It's the first true action book in the field moving beyond simple gap analysis, theory, and fundamentals to show you how to apply the full range of today's sophisticated A/L management techniques-and comply with the latest banking regulations. You'll find. * Full discussions of interest rate exposures not measured by gap, but of vital interest to institutions and regulators alike: basis risk (the difference in the change of interest rates between instruments of identical maturities) and imbedded options (loan payoffs and early deposit withdrawals) * Helpful and informative insights from leading A/L management practitioners, consultants, and software developers Whether you're involved with a commercial bank, savings and loan association, or credit union, you can't afford to ignore the gap in your institution's risk defenses any longer. Put the "virtuosos of risk management" to work today.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-03-31
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $200.00
Price: $166.40
Review Financial Economics / Routledge:This book examines economic activity in financial markets: how capital assets are priced and how these prices change over time. The analysis starts in a certainty setting by exploring way individuals use financial securities to choose their current and future consumption flows, before moving on to an uncertainty setting where security prices are obtained using standard intermediate microeconomic analysis that relies heavily on the use of diagrams to bring together the demand and supply decisions of traders in financial markets. The book provides an excellent introduction to the basic classical finance model where financial assets are a veil over the real economy. Most undergraduate finance textbooks emphasize explaining the institutional aspects of financial markets and rely heavily on partial equilibrium analysis, while most graduate finance textbooks use formal general equilibrium analysis. The analysis in this book sits between these two approaches and thus provides the student with a nuts and bolts guide to the whole area of financial economics.
Authors
- Chi-Fu Huang
- Robert H. Litzenberger
Price: $44.75
Review Foundations for Financial Economics / North-Holland:Based on formal derivations of financial theory, this volume provides a rigorous exploration of individual's consumption and portfolio decisions under uncertainty. Features in-depth coverage of such topics as: concepts of risk aversion and stochastic dominance; mathematical properties of a portfolio frontier; distributional conditions for mutual fund separation; capital asset pricing models and arbitrage pricing models; general pricing rules for securities that pay off in more than one state of nature; the pricing of options; rational expectation models of risky asset prices; signaling models; how multiperiod dynamic economies can be modeled; a multiperiod economy with emphasis on valuation by arbitrage; econometric issues associated with testing capital asset pricing models. For readers interested in a rigorous overview of financial economicsn individual consumption point of view. © 1988.
Publication date: 1851
Review Essays on interest, exchange, coins, paper money, and banks / A. Hart:
Creator: Sarkis J. Khoury
Publication date: 1996-12-01
Dewey code: 658
List Price: $82.95
Price: $157.27
Review Advances in International Banking and Finance (Advances in International Banking & Finance) (Advances in International Banking & Finance) / JAI Press:This series focuses on topics such as international financial markets, pricing options on foreign assets and the ECU as the financing currency. This volume includes a section on European acquisitions by French banks, strategies and the European financial structure. Other areas covered include: regulatory taxes; investment and financing decisions for insured banks; free trade and the European financial structure; and a critical reexamination of the return geneship process of the arbitrage pricing theory.
Publication date: 1996-01
Dewey code: 332
List Price: $89.00
Price: $157.80
Review Financing Energy Projects in Emerging Economies / Pennwell Books:Provides first-hand information and analysis regarding how multilateral, bilateral, and commercial financers make decisions about oil, gas, and electric power projects. Contents: Fundamentals of project financing Challenges of project financing in developing countries Sources of financing Accessing support from global multilateral institutions Borrowing from regional development banks Bilateral sources of financing Accessing comercial funds Analyzing the business environment Establishing economic and financial viability Structuring the financing package Environmental concerns Glossary.
Creator: Alice C. Lee
Publication date: 2006-04-17
Dewey code: 332.03
List Price: $299.00
Price: $213.85
Review Encyclopedia of Finance / Springer:The Encyclopedia of Finance is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial management, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It will also have international approach to ensure its maximum appeal.
Publication date: 1992-02-01
Review Technical Analysis Explained: The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points / McGraw-Hill Education:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-05-16
Dewey code: 332.11094
List Price: $180.00
Price: $158.98
Review Central Banking Systems Compared: The ECB, The Pre-Euro Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve System (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 20) / Routledge:This new study provides a comprehensive survey of the recently established European financial system in comparison to previous European systems and the US Federal Reserve.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1970-01-01
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $190.00
Price: $156.08
Review The Art of Central Banking / Routledge:
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R. of China (1989), Successful Bank Asset/Liability Management: A Guide to the Future Beyond Gap, Financial Economics, Foundations for Financial Economics, Essays on interest, exchange, coins, paper money, and banks, Advances in International Banking and Finance (Advances in International Banking & Finance) (Advances in International Banking & Finance), Financing Energy Projects in Emerging Economies, Encyclopedia of Finance, Technical Analysis Explained: The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points, Central Banking Systems Compared: The ECB, The Pre-Euro Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve System (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking, 20), The Art of Central BankingTop headlines: Sumatra fault primed for more mega-quakes: One of the most dangerous faults in the world is primed for another monster earthquake, according to new research. ›17:19 Rice satisfied with Pakistan's effort: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she is satisfied with Pakistan's commitment to fight terrorism and its readiness to pursue any lead in the attacks in India. 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