Price regulation and risk

the impact of regulation system shifts on risk components

Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation ...

Nouvelles normes financiéres

s'organiser face à la crise

Dir. Christian Walter. La crise financière de 2008 a placé l'ensemble des règles comptables et prudentielles de la finance sur le banc des accusés. Or ces normes qui règlent la vie du monde financier ont subi une profonde refonte depuis les années 1990. Devant ...

The quintessence of strategic management

what you really need to know to survive in business

Having read this book: You will have a basic understanding of strategy and the process of strategic management. You will know the most important strategy tools (including the respective original literature) and how they interact. You will be aware of the focal areas and considerations ...

On the limits of Constitutional Adjudication

deconstructing balancing and judicial activism

Juliano Z. Benvindo investigates the current movement of constitutional courts towards political activism, especially by focusing on the increasing use of the balancing method as a 'rational' justification for this process. From the critical perception of the serious risks of this movement to democracy, this ...

National regulation of space activities

Ed. Ram S. Jakhu. This book comprehensively addresses all aspects of national space laws and regulations governing the conduct of space activities in fifteen space-faring nations. This is the first book of its kind that contains a compilation of materials written from a neutral and ...

Risk management in credit portfolios

concentration risk and basel II

Risk concentrations play a crucial role for the survival of individual banks and for the stability of the whole banking system. Thus, it is important from an economical and a regulatory perspective to properly measure and manage these concentrations. In this book, the impact of ...

Rational decision making

This textbook conveys methods that can improve decision making processes in various fields such as economics, politics, and medicine as well as in personal life. Exercises from daily life help the reader to understand the key insights from decision analysis.

Real options valuation

the importance of interest rate modelling in theory and practice

This book analyzes real options valuation for non-constant versus constant interest rates using simulations and historical backtesting. It provides a systematic analysis and compares real options valuation using constant interest rates and the implied forward rates with methods that simulate interest rates stochastically. Real options ...

Procedural autonomy of EU Member States

paradise lost?: a study on the 'Functionalized Procedural Competence' of EU Member States

Is the procedural autonomy of EU Member State a myth or a reality? What should this concept be taken to mean? Starting from the analysis of requirements and principles regulating, generally speaking, the relationships between Member States' and EU law, this book provides a definition ...

Financial economics

a concise introduction to classical and behavioral finance

CONTENTS: Foundations: Introduction.- Decision Theory.- Financial Markets: Two-Period Model: Mean-Variance Approach.- Two-Period Model: State-Preference Approach.- Multiple-Periods Model.- Advanced Topics: Information Asymmetries on Financial Markets.- Time-Continous Model.- Appendices: Mathematics.- Solutions to Tests and Excercises.

Population ageing - a threat to the Welfare State?

the case of Sweden

Ed. Tommy Bengtsson. This book is the first to take a comprehensive view of the challenges that population ageing present in the near future taking Sweden as the case. Can the increasing number of retirees per worker be stopped by immigration or increasing fertility or ...

Economic analysis of music copyright

income, media and performances

Chris Anderson's initial 'Long Tail' analysis was released in 2004 just as the wave of mergers and acquisitions was sweeping the music publishing and radio industries. Music industry executives began looking for Anderson's 'Long Tail' effect and with it the implied redistribution of ...

A modern treatise on the principle of legality in Criminal Law

This book discusses legality, one of the four main principles of criminal law, and is divided into six parts, according to the scientific understanding of this key concept. Chapter 1 explores the relation between legality and the general theory of criminal law in the context ...

Electricity market reforms

economics and policy challenges

With the global demand for energy skyrocketing, over the past twenty years many countries have restructured their electric power industries, typically moving from a regulated monopoly to a competitive market structure. The results of these reforms vary significantly from country to country depending on the ...

Capital, accumulation, and money

an integration of capital, growth, and monetary theory

CONTENTS: Premises and an Overview.- Myros and Other Concepts and Definitions.- The Macroeconomic Framework.- Interest and Money.- Production and Investment.- General Price Level and Inflation.- Capital Values, Wealth, and Related Topics.- Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Employment.- Capital Theory in Perspective.- Opportunity and Sunk Costs.- Trade, Transfers ...

Business taxation and financial decision

Managerial decisions are considerably influenced by taxes: e.g. the choice of location, buying or leasing decisions, or the proper mix of debt and equity in the company's capital structure increasingly demand qualified employees in an economic environment that is becoming more and more ...

Cybercrimes

a multidisciplinary analysis

Eds. Sumit Ghosh, Elliot Turrini. Designed to serve as a reference work for practitioners, academics, and scholars worldwide, this book is the first of its kind to explain complex cybercrimes from the perspectives of multiple disciplines (computer science, law, economics, psychology, etc.) and scientifically analyze ...

Health Care financing and insurance

options for design

This book offers a unique combination of conceptual, institutional and empirical analyses of the design of healthcare financing systems, and explores the complex interactions of finance and insurance arrangements in several OECD countries.

Fundamentals of traffic simulation

Ed. Jaume Barceló. The increasing power of computer technologies, the evolution of software engineering and the advent of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) worldwide has helped make traffic simulation one of the most used approaches for traffic analysis in support of the design and evaluation of ...

Semiotics of International Law

trade and translation

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal ...