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1. |  What Keeps Leaders Up at Night By: Nicole Lipkin Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 05-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What Keeps Leaders Up at Night The book examines engagement, motivation, expectation, emotions, interpersonal and group dynamics—all the psychological principles that play pivotal roles in the workplace. Featuring illuminating examples and exercises, What Keeps Leaders Up at Night shines a bright light into the dark corners where all leaders struggle with their own shortcomings....
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2. |  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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3. |  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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4. |  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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5. |  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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6. |  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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7. |  Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management By: William H.A. Johnson; Diane H. Parente Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Project Strategy and Strategic Portfolio Management Projects have become the de facto method of implementing business strategy and operations. As such, understanding how projects relate to business strategy and managing projects strategically is increasingly important to effective and efficient business management This book is designed as a short and concise treatise on how to go about doing that. The authors start by figuring out how the project relates to the rest of the business and environment and what separates it from other projects and functions. They go on to discuss how you can use principles of strategic management to better organize...
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8. |  Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1B By: Philippe Aghion; Steven Durlauf Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1B
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, with an introduction by Robert Solow, features in-depth, authoritative survey articles by the leading economists working on growth theory. Volume 1a , the first in this two volume set, covers theories of economic growth, the empirics of...
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9. |  Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A By: Philippe Aghion; Steven Durlauf Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. The Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, with an introduction by Robert Solow, features in-depth, authoritative survey articles by the leading economists working on growth theory. Volume 1A, the first in this two volume set, covers theories of economic growth, the empirics of economic growth,...
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10. |  Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Volume 1 By: G. Elliott; C. W.J. Granger; A. G. Timmermann Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 14-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Volume 1
Research on forecasting methods has made important progress over recent years and these developments are brought together in the Handbook of Economic Forecasting. The handbook covers developments in how forecasts are constructed based on multivariate time-series models, dynamic factor models, nonlinear models and combination methods. The handbook also includes chapters on forecast evaluation, including evaluation of point forecasts and probability forecasts and contains chapters on survey forecasts and volatility forecasts. Areas of applications of forecasts covered in the handbook...
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11. |  Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 3 By: Karl-Goran Maler; Jeffrey R. Vincent Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 09-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 3
Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems. This is also where some of the most of challenging environmental policy issues occur. Volume 3 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics provides a synthesis of the latest theory on economywide and international environmental issues and a critical review of models for analyzing those issues. It begins with chapters on the fundamental relationships that connect environmental resources to economic growth and long-run...
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12. |  Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2 By: Karl-Göran Mäler; Jeffrey R. Vincent Publisher: North Holland Publication Date: 21-DEC-2005 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Environmental Economics, Volume 2
Much applied environmental economics is concerned with the valuation of changes in environmental quality. Obtaining reliable valuation estimates requires attention to theoretical and econometric issues that are often quite subtle. Volume 2 of the Handbook of Environmental Economics presents both the theory and the practice of environmental valuation. It synthesizes the vast literature that has accumulated since the publication of the Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics two decades ago. It includes chapters on individual valuation methods written by researchers...
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13. |  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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14. |  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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15. |  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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16. |  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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17. |  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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18. |  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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19. |  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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20. |  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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