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1. |  By: Harlan Harris; Sean Murphy; Marck Vaisman Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analyzing the Analyzers There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations requiring their services. This lack of clarity has frequently led to missed opportunities. To address this issue, we surveyed several hundred practitioners via the Web to explore the varieties of skills, experiences, and viewpoints in the emerging data science...
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2. |  Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management By: Ohad Samet Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 13-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 08-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Introduction to Online Payments Risk Management If you’ve been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach....
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3. |  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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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. |  The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt By: Ben Emons Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The End of the Risk-Free Rate: Investing When Structural Forces Change Government Debt
A NEW FINANCIAL STRATEGY FOR A NEW FINANCIAL WORLDAs an investor, you’ve probably taken advantage of the risk-free rates in the postcrash economy by putting your money into bonds, stocks, commodities, and currencies. With the rise of government debt across the globe, you can no longer rely on the notion of “safe” to perform asexpected. You need to adapt your investing strategy to a new financial reality.
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7. |  By: Brian Cohen; John Kador Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 26-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
WHAT IF YOU HAD AN ANGEL ON YOUR SIDE?“Terrific advice from a master of the angel investing game. Brian Cohen reveals the art and craft of raising angel money. An investment in this book will payoff a thousandfold.”
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8. |  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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9. |  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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10. |  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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11. |  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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12. |  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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13. |  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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14. |  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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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. |  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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17. |  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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18. |  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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19. |  Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis By: Jacinta Chan Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Times Guide to Technical Analysis
Beginning with the very basics of technical analysis and market price behaviour, this book teaches you how to apply these concepts and principles to your own trading. With this comprehensive and straight talking guide you will soon be using the same successful techniques and formulas as the professionals. Learn how to: Understand those trading systems that will generate high returns Identify price patterns and trends Use the right technical indicators to get the best out of the markets Write and execute a trading plan that increases your chances of...
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20. |  The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition By: Bharati V. Pathak Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 21-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services, 3rd Edition
The Indian Financial System: Markets, Institutions and Services is a comprehensive reference book about the financial system. This book is meant for students, professionals, and academicians. It seeks to help the readers hold their own in the modern business scenario. The book is divided into five units. The first unit introduces the economy and the financial system. The second unit covers various concepts of financial markets such as the capital market, the derivatives market, and the debt market. Unit III discusses financial institutions and topics like insurance and mutual funds. The...
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