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1. |  An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Trading, Markets, Instruments, and Processes By: R. Tee Williams Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 18-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Trading in the Financial Markets: Trading, Markets, Instruments, and Processes
New to the financial markets? Need to bone up on one area or function to move up the ladder, change careers, provide better sales or consulting services. --Provides easy to understand descriptions of all the major elements of the financial markets -- Author is a 28-year veteran of the financial markets -- Filled with graphs and charts that help readers move quickly and easily through the book and acquire the necessary information
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2. |  Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting By: Douglas J. Cumming; Sofia A. Johan Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 02-APR-2009 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Venture Capital and Private Equity Contracting
Other books present corporate finance approaches to the VC/PE industry, but many key decisions require an understanding of the ways that law and economics work together. This book is better than straight corporate finance textbooks because it offers broad perspectives and principles that enable readers to deduce the economic implications of specific contract terms. This approach avoids the common pitfalls of implying that contractual terms apply equally to firms in any industry anywhere in the world. • Explores the economic implications of contract terms for start-up firms in various...
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3. |  International Investments in Private Equity By: Peter Cornelius Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: International Investments in Private Equity
How can private equity investors exploit investment opportunities in foreign markets? Peter Cornelius uses a proprietary database to investigate and describe private equity markets worldwide, revealing their levels of integration, their risks, and the ways that investors can mitigate those risks. In three major sections that concentrate on the risk and return profile of private equity, the growth dynamics of discrete markets and geographies, and opportunities for private equity investments, he offers hard-to-find analyses that fill knowledge gaps about foreign markets. Observing that...
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4. |  Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe By: Stefano Caselli Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 20-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe
The distinctive nature of the European pe/vc environment is on display in Stefano Caselli’s presentation of its complete conceptual framework, from the volatile (its financial side) to the stable (its legal organization). A Bocconi University professor, Caselli offers a European perspective on market fundamentals, the v.c. cycle, and valuation issues, supporting his observations with recent examples and case studies. Written for investors, his book achieves many "firsts," such as clarifying many aspects of EU and UK financial institutions. Complete with finding aids, keywords, exercises,...
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5. |  Valuation Estimates and Takeover Acitivity By: B. Espen Eckbo Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 02-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Valuation Estimates and Takeover Acitivity
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume one, "Takeover Activity, Valuation Estimates and Sources of Merger Gains", focus on classical issues such as the existence and source of merger waves, empirical estimates of takeover announcement returns and the division of takeover gains between bidders and targets, and tests for potential sources of...
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6. |  Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models By: Carsten Wehn; Christian Hoppe; Greg N. Gregoriou Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rethinking Valuation and Pricing Models
It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered. This single volume provides a guide to lessons learned for practitioners and a reference for academics. Including reviews of traditional approaches, real examples, and case studies, contributors consider portfolio theory; methods for valuing equities and equity derivatives, interest rate derivatives, and hybrid products; and techniques for calculating risks and implementing investment strategies. Describing new...
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7. |  Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition By: David Stowell Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 01-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity, 2nd Edition
This description of the symbiotic relationships among investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms shows students how firms simultaneously compete and cooperate. The author has captured the ways these firms are reinventing themselves in the post-crash regulatory environment and, through ten extensive cases, the ways in which they are increasing their power and influence. Emphasizes the needs for capital, sources of capital, and the process of getting capital to those who need it. Integrates into the chapters ten cases about recent transactions, along with case notes and...
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8. |  Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability
Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, particularly the ways in which these forces inhabit our institutions, strategies, and tactics. As economies expand and contract, these forces also determine the ways we supervise and regulate....
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9. |  Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 17-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 23-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure
Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate practices, and the advent of efforts to safeguard financial stability. It then describes the architecture itself by analyzing its parts, such as markets, institutions, and infrastructure. The...
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10. |  By: Miran Jus Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Credit Insurance
This monograph is practically oriented, presenting a survey and explanation of credit insurance services for protection of short-term trade receivables primarily against commercial risk of insolvency and protracted default. The subject matter (i.e., main functions, features and principles of credit insurance with detailed description of credit insurance coverage, insurance conditions, and credit insurance policy management) follows procedural stages and presents commercial, financial, legal, and practical points of view which emphasize the needs of both the providers of these services...
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11. |  By: Gheorghe Savoiu Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 27-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Econophysics
The remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions. The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these advances, written by interdisciplinary specialists. Included are studies on subjects in the development of econophysics; on the perspectives offered by econophysics on large problems in economics and finance, including the 2008-9 financial crisis; and on higher education and group decision...
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12. |  The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization By: Gerard Caprio Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization
The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge. Crises usher in short- and long-term changes to the status quo, and everyone agrees that learning from crises is a top priority. The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization devotes separate articles to specific crises, the conditions that cause them, and the longstanding arrangements devised to address them. While other books and journal articles treat these subjects in isolation, this volume presents a wide-ranging, consistent, yet varied specificity. Substantial,...
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13. |  Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition By: Stefano Gatti Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 02-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Finance in Theory and Practice, 2nd Edition
This book presents comprehensive coverage of project finance in Europe and North America. The Second Edition features two new case studies, all new pedagogical supplements including end-of-chapter questions and answers, and insights into the recent market downturn. The author provides a complete description of the ways a project finance deal can be organized-from industrial, legal, and financial standpoints-and the alternatives available for funding it. After reviewing recent advances in project finance theory, he provides illustrations and case studies. At key points Gatti brings in...
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14. |  By: Vijay Krishna Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 28-SEP-2009 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Auction Theory, 2nd Edition
Vijay Krishna’s 2e of Auction Theory improves upon his 2002 bestseller with a new chapter on package and position auctions as well as end-of-chapter questions and chapter notes. Complete proofs and new material about collusion complement Krishna’s ability to reveal the basic facts of each theory in a style that is clear, concise, and easy to follow. With the addition of a solutions manual and other teaching aids, the 2e continues to serve as the doorway to relevant theory for most students doing empirical work on auctions. Focuses on key auction types and serves as the doorway to...
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15. |  Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk By: Stefan Trueck; Svetlozar T. Rachev Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 15-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk
In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital accord (Basel II), which allows banks to base their capital requirements on internal as well as external rating systems. Because of this, sophisticated credit risk models are being developed or demanded by banks to assess the risk of their credit portfolio better by recognizing the...
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16. |  Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers By: B. Espen Eckbo Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 12-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Modern Empirical Developments in Corporate Takeovers
A selection of republished corporate finance articles and book chapters that can serve as an advanced corporate finance supplementary text for courses that use no textbooks. Combining convenience and an affordable price with retypeset pages and a high-quality index, the 600 pages of volume two, "Bidding Strategies, Financing, and Corporate Control", focus on a range of special topics, ranging from theories and evidence on strategic bidding behavior (offer premiums, toeholds, bidder competition, winner’s curse adjustments, and managerial overconfidence), issues arising when bidding for...
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17. |  EPC and 4G Packet Networks, 2nd Edition By: Magnus Olsson; Catherine Mulligan Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 03-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 29-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: EPC and 4G Packet Networks, 2nd Edition
Get a comprehensive and detailed insight into the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with this clear, concise and authoritative guide - a fully updated second edition that covers the latest standards and industry developments KEY FEATURES • The only book to describe and explain the entire EPC including architecture, features and protocols, giving you the knowledge and insight to see the potential in EPC, develop EPC products and deploy LTE/EPC mobile broadband Networks • The Second Edition includes 150+ new pages and numerous new illustrations. The content has also been focused towards the...
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18. |  Cognitive Radio Technology, 2nd Edition By: Bruce A. Fette Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 28-APR-2009 Insert Date: 19-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Cognitive Radio Technology, 2nd Edition
This book gives a thorough knowledge of cognitive radio concepts, principles, standards, spectrum policy issues and product implementation details. In addition to 16 chapters covering all the basics of cognitive radio, this new edition has eight brand-new chapters covering cognitive radio in multiple antenna systems, policy language and policy engine, spectrum sensing, rendezvous techniques, spectrum consumption models, protocols for adaptation, cognitive networking, and information on the latest standards, making it an indispensable resource for the RF and wireless engineer. The new...
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19. |  Signals and Systems using MATLAB By: Luis Chaparro Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 10-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 11-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Signals and Systems using MATLAB
This new textbook in Signals and Systems provides a pedagogically-rich approach to what can oftentimes be a mathematically 'dry' subject. Chaparro introduces both continuous and discrete time systems, then covers each separately in depth. Careful explanations of each concept are paired with a large number of step by step worked examples. With features like historical notes, highlighted 'common mistakes,' and applications in controls, communications, and signal processing, Chaparro helps students appreciate the usefulness of the techniques described in the book. Each chapter contains a...
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20. |  Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice By: Wolfgang Schwerdt; Marcelle von Wendland Publisher: Academic Press Publication Date: 22-OCT-2009 Insert Date: 10-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice
Financial models and portfolios are only as good as the software-based representations of them, and this book is the first to bridge the gap between the theory of financial pricing, risk and performance measurement and modeling, and actually implementing all this in a your firm's software systems. The authors are the developers of the European Central Bank's (ECB) standard for the description of financial instruments. The ECB has adopted this approach because it is an extremely flexible, innovative, yet logically simple and consistent way to accurately define and set up even very large...
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