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1. |  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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2. |  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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3. |  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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4. |  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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5. |  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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6. |  An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition By: Moorad Choudhry Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 31-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An Introduction to Credit Derivatives, 2nd Edition
The second edition of An Introduction to Credit Derivatives provides a broad introduction to products and a marketplace that have changed significantly since the financial crisis of 2008. Author Moorad Choudhry gives a practitioner's perspective on credit derivative instruments and the risks they involve in a succinct style without sacrificing technical details and scientific precision. Beginning with foundational discussions of credit risk, credit risk transfer and credit ratings, the book proceeds to examine credit default swaps and related pricing, asset swaps, credit-linked...
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7. |  SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition By: Grant Fritchey Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 12-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server Execution Plans, 2nd Edition
Every day the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? My response is the same in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? An execution plan describes what's going on behind the scenes when SQL Server executes a query. It shows how the query optimizer joined the data from the various tables defined in the query, which indexes it used, if any, how it performed any aggregations or sorting, and much more. It also estimates the cost of all of these operations, in terms of the relative load placed on the system....
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8. |  SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning By: Kalen Delaney Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 11-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server Concurrency: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning
If you've designed your SQL code intelligently, and implemented a sensible indexing strategy, there's a good chance your queries will "fly", when tested in isolation. In the real world, however, where multiple processes can access the same data at the same time, SQL Server often has to make one process wait, sacrificing concurrency and performance, in order that in order that all can succeed, without destroying data integrity. Your application can have world-class indexes and queries, but they won't help you if you can't get your data, because another application has it locked. That's why...
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9. |  The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM By: Jacob Sebastian; Sven Aelterman Publisher: Red Gate Books Publication Date: 31-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM
Storing large object data in the database offers a number of benefits, but introduces performance challenges. Conversely, storing large object data in the file system has overriding performance advantages, but fails to offer some of the basic data integrity, security and manageability features that are required for business data, and which SQL Server provides. Up to now, most people have adopted file system storage by necessity, and often struggled to overcome the associated shortcomings. This is exactly where SQL Server's new FILESTREAM feature fits in. We hope this book will get you...
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10. |  The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems By: Ben W. Ebenhack; Daniel M. Martínez Publisher: Momentum Press Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Path to More Sustainable Energy Systems What do we want from sustainable energy? What is possible to achieve and when? Energy professionals and political leaders need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy—the limits of that energy—and what must change in the future if we are to have a more environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technologically-based civilization. This book sheds some much needed light on that conundrum. It • provides a broad overview of our current energy resources and their limitations; • includes considerations of political and economic constraints,...
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11. |  Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 By: Cheng-Few Lee Publisher: JAI Press Publication Date: 12-JUL-2002 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 Twelve papers focus on investment analysis, portfolio theory, and their implementation in portfolio management...
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12. |  By: E. R. Yescombe Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Public-Private Partnerships
Over the last decade or so, private-sector financing through public-private partnerships (PPPs) has become increasingly popular around the world as a way of procuring and maintaining public-sector infrastructure, in sectors such as transportation (roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, ports, airports), social infrastructure (hospitals, schools, prisons, social housing) public utilities (water supply, waste water treatment, waste disposal), government offices and other accommodation, and other specialised services (communications networks or defence equipment). This book, based on the...
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13. |  By: Patrick M Georges; Josephine Hus Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Six Figure Management Method Measuring and improving performance is critical for managers who want to achieve successful business growth. However, standard key performance indicators can be overly complex and therefore ineffective in managing productivity: Six Figure Management Method shows that if you measure and improve just six well-selected figures, each of them simple to understand and easy to calculate, the profitability of your unit or business will soar. Based around these six measures, it presents a streamlined, straightforward framework for managing your activities effectively on a day-to-day basis, while...
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14. |  By: Simon Pont Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital State What is the Digital State? What is our Digital State of Mind?
What does this Digital State mean for brands and for businesses?
Big data, new distribution platforms, content collaboration, geo-targeting, crowdsourcing, viral marketing, mobile apps - the technological revolution has transformed the way society communicates and understands itself, and unleashed a whirlwind of new possibilities for marketers, as well as new risks.
Mirroring the 'collaborative play space' Tim Berners-Lee first envisaged for the internet, Digital State brings together Simon Pont and 13 thought-leaders drawn from...
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15. |  Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition By: Ian Brace Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Questionnaire Design, 3rd Edition Questionnaires are vital for the market researcher: they draw accurate information from respondents, give structure to interviews, provide a standard form on which facts, comments and attitudes can be recorded, and facilitate data processing. Questionnaire Design explains the role of questionnaires in market research and looks at different types of questionnaire, examining when and how they should be deployed. The book explains how to plan, structure and compose the right questionnaire for the research you are undertaking. Fully updated with new content on encouraging respondent involvement,...
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16. |  Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple By: Ben Howard Publisher: Microsoft Press Publication Date: 30-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Microsoft Project 2013 Plain & Simple Get the full-color, visual guide that makes learning Microsoft Project 2013 plain and simple! Follow the book’s easy steps and screenshots and clear, concise language to learn the simplest ways to effectively manage all your projects....
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17. |  HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A By: Orley Ashenfelter; David Card Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 28-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: HANDBOOK OF LABOR ECONOMICS, VOL 4A
What new tools and models are enriching labor economics? "Developments in Research Methods and their Application" (volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways economists study wages, employment, and labor markets. Mixing conceptual models and empirical work, contributors cover subjects as diverse as field and laboratory experiments, program evaluation, and behavioral models. The combinations of these improved empirical findings with new models reveal how labor economists are developing new and innovative ways to measure key parameters and test important hypotheses. ...
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18. |  By: Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc. Publisher: Que Publication Date: 09-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Access® 2013 on Demand Need answers quickly? Access 2013 on
Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format.
We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full color
illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions.
Inside the Book
• Create desktop databases or web apps
for traditional and online users to gather, organize, and share
data
• Use professional templates to help
you create desktop databases or web apps
• Create web apps on SharePoint Team
Services to collaborate and share information
• Use tools for building a database or
web app that makes information easier to find and...
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19. |  By: Patrice-Anne Rutledge Publisher: Que Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 21-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: WordPress® on Demand WordPress on Demand will cover both
WordPress.com and WordPress.org in a visual, step-by-step format.
In addition to offering detailed guidance on how to complete dozens
of common WordPress tasks, this book will provide real-world advice
and suggestions on how to save time, avoid frustration, and create
a high-quality, well-designed site that attracts an audience and
achieves results. WordPress on Demand will be based on WordPress
version 3.5.1.
In this book, readers will learn how
to:
• Decide between hosted
WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org)
• Choose the right...
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20. |  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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