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The philosophy of taxation and public finance

Most public finance books are texts, which are aimed at undergraduate or graduate students. They are overly technical in nature and appeal only to a narrow range of bureaucrats and academics. Books on taxation are written for tax practitioners and usually emphasize either what the ...

Financing technology's frontier

decision-making models for investors and advisors

INDICE Chapter 1. Sharing the Excitement of Discovery. Chapter 2. Growth Models that Encourage Investment. Chapter 3. Where to Find Capital#Part I: Venture Capital. Chapter 4. Where to Find Capital#Part II: Public Markets and Private Placements. Chapter 5. Creative and Alternative Financing Strategies ...

Managing global financial and foreign exchange rate risk

INDICE Chapter 1. Global Markets: Transactions and Risks. Chapter 2. Balance of Payments Exposure Management. Chapter 3. Foreign Exchange Rate Dynamics: Managing Exposure. Chapter 4. Application of Options and Futures for Managing Exposure. Chapter 5. Principles of Futures: Pricing and Applications. Chapter 6. Interest Rate ...

Corporate fraud

case studies in detection and prevention

Real-world help for companies combating fraud # from major management fraud to fraudulent financial reporting From the author#s more than thirty years of corporate auditing experience, Corporate Fraud features scores of useful case studies that illustrate the principles of numerous types of fraud and how ...

Wiley IAS 2004

interpretation and application of international accounting and financial reporting standards

International Accounting Standards (IAS) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), as they will be referred to henceforth, are receiving more attention than ever, having now been endorsed by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the European Union (EU). The EU will require that ...

Managing credit risk in corporate bond portfolios

a practitioner's guide

In Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios: A Practitioner#s Guide, investment expert Srichander Ramaswamy skillfully explains how you can begin to measure and manage the relative credit risk of a co rporate bond portfolio against its benchmark. By combining risk management concepts with ...

The Mathematics of Financial Modeling and Investment Management

The Mathematics of Financial Modeling & Investment Management covers a wide range of technical topics in mathematics and finance#enabling the investment management practitioner, researcher, or student to fully understand the process of financial decision-making and its economic foundations. This comprehensive resource will introduce you to ...

Copula methods in finance

The evaluation and risk measurement of portfolios of complex non-linear positions and non-normal risk factors has become a major nightmare for people working in the structured finance business. Dealing with "fat tails" and "smile effects", as well as the typical asymmetric shape of default risk ...

Modelling prices in competitive electricity markets

Electricity markets are structurally different to other commodities, and the real-time dynamic balancing of the electricity network involves many external factors. Because of this, it is not a simple matter to transfer conventional models of financial time series analysis to wholesale electricity prices. The rationale ...

Managerial economics

analysis, problems, cases

Managerial Economics, Seventh Edition teaches readers how to use economic analysis to resolve problems and make effective decisions in the complex world of business. The clear and accurate presentation of economic theory, and outstanding end-of-chapter cases combine to make the best presentation of managerial economics ...

European fixed income markets

money, bond, and interest rate derivatives

This book offers a clear, insightful perspective on the post-euro fixed-income markets of Europe. The introduction of the euro in 1999 cast a new focus on the financial markets of constituent euro-zone countries which have subsequently seen their domestic markets emerge as the second largest ...

The city as an entertainment machine

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. How? People both live and work in cities. And where they choose to live ...

Marketing wireless products

Making sense of intellectual capital

designing a method for the valuation of intangibles

Peter Drucker has introduced us all to the knowledge era, where knowledge is the primary resource and intangibles (intellectual capital resources and assets) are now largely recognized as the most important sources of organizations' competitive advantage. With the recognition of the importance of Intangibles comes ...

Economic capital allocation with Basel II

Cost, benefit and implementation procedures

This book is a complimentary follow-on book to Operational Risk Control with Basel II. While the previous book focuses on operational risk, Economic Capital Allocation provides an overview of credit risk within the context of the Basel II accords. The book provides: -Comprehensive coverage of ...

European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

The purpose of the volume is to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI. The volume deals with two levels of discussion: First, by ...

Money at its uses in the Ancient Greek World

Jews in a graeco-roman world

Apuleius

a latin sophist

International relations since 1945

a global history