Sustainable Finance for Asia and the Pacific
by Martha Rogers, Carolina Rosales, and Eric Roberts
This report explores the benefits of Asia and the Pacific's coral reefs, outlines the myriad risks they face from climate change, pollution, and development, and considers how nature-positive investments can finance their protection and restoration. Outlining how over 85% of the region's coral reefs are under threat, the report looks at the first-ever insurance policy taken out on reefs in Mexico and considers how parametric insurance can be adopted in the region. Focused on managing degraded a...
The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain
Financial services technology and its effect on the field of finance and banking has been of major importance within the last few years. The spread of these so-called disruptive technologies, including Blockchain, has radically changed financial markets and transformed the operation of the industry as a whole. This is the first multidisciplinary handbook of FinTech and Blockchain covering finance, economics, and legal aspects globally. With comprehensive coverage of the current landscape of fina...
Dieses Lehrbuch stellt die wesentlichen Methoden und Anwendungsgebiete der Künstlichen Intelligenz und der Analyse großer Datenmengen bei Finanzintermediären und Industrieunternehmen im Bereich der Finanzwirtschaft dar. Es vermittelt die Grundlagen und fortgeschrittene Methoden der KI und ihrer Anwendungen in der Finanzwirtschaft und unterstützt bei der Vorbereitung auf das Berufsleben im quantitativen Asset- und Risikomanagement. Das Buch kann begleitend zu universitären Lehrveranstaltungen im...
’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland For fans of Bad Blood and The Big Short, the story of how one reclusive trading prodigy manipulated Wall Street and amassed millions from his childhood bedroom – then short-circuited the global market....
This book introduces machine learning in finance and illustrates how we can use computational tools in numerical finance in real-world context. These computational techniques are particularly useful in financial risk management, corporate bankruptcy prediction, stock price prediction, and portfolio management. The book also offers practical and managerial implications of financial and managerial decision support systems and how these systems capture vast amount of financial data. Business risk...
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance (Oxford Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance provides a survey of both the foundations of and recent advances in the frontiers of analysis and action. It is both historically and interdisciplinarily rich and also tightly connected to the rise of digital society. It begins with the conventional view of computational economics, including recent algorithmic development in computing rational expectations, volatility, and general equilibrium. It then moves from traditional computing in...
Undergraduate Introduction To Financial Mathematics, An (Fourth Edition)
by J Robert Buchanan
Anyone with an interest in learning about the mathematical modeling of prices of financial derivatives such as bonds, futures, and options can start with this book, whereby the only mathematical prerequisite is multivariable calculus. The necessary theory of interest, statistical, stochastic, and differential equations are developed in their respective chapters, with the goal of making this introductory text as self-contained as possible.In this edition, the chapters on hedging portfolios and ex...
Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities
This report explores green bonds and other finance instruments for climate-resilient infrastructure to help meet the growing demand for green investments and achieve a low carbon economy in Indonesia. The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) consulted with experts in partnership with ADB, the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility, and PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur under Indonesia's Ministry of Finance in preparing this updated report, following previous editions published in 2018 and 2019. It as par...
Capital Flows and Financial Crises (Buy-in)
The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she resided as a squatter in four different houses, worked on two successful anti-gentrification campaigns, was evicted from two houses and jailed once. With this unique perspective, Kadir systematically examines the contradiction between what people say and what they practice in a highly ideological radi...
"Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should anyone care about bitcoin? In The Age of Cryptocurrency, Wall Street journalists Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey deliver the definitive answer to this question. Cybermoney is poised to launch a revolution, o...
Analyzing Event Statistics in Corporate Finance provides new alternative methodologies to increase accuracy when performing statistical tests for event studies within corporate finance. In contrast to conventional surveys or literature reviews, Jeng focuses on various methodological defects or deficiencies that lead to inaccurate empirical results, which ultimately produce bad corporate policies. This work discusses the issues of data collection and structure, the recursive smoothing for systema...
Real Estate Investing Online for Beginners (3 Hour Crash Course, #7)
by Edward Day
The Time-Discrete Method of Lines for Options and Bonds
by Gunter H Meyer
Finance, Accounting and Law in the Digital Age (Contributions to Management Science)
This book focuses on understanding Innovation in the Financial Services Sector. The collection of contributions gathered in the book highlights the importance of technology contexts that pertain to Finance, accounting, and the law arena. The respective chapters address topics such as Economic development, social entrepreneurship, Online Behaviour, Digital entrepreneurship, and Islamic banks. All contributions are based on the latest empirical and theoretical research and provide key findings and...
Relationship Status Single Married Taken by an Awesome Accountant
by M Shafiq
Modern Cryptography Volume 1 (Financial Mathematics and Fintech)
by Zhiyong Zheng
This open access book systematically explores the statistical characteristics of cryptographic systems, the computational complexity theory of cryptographic algorithms and the mathematical principles behind various encryption and decryption algorithms. The theory stems from technology. Based on Shannon's information theory, this book systematically introduces the information theory, statistical characteristics and computational complexity theory of public key cryptography, focusing on the three...
Je valorise ma start-up (Guides Pratiques, #1)
by Carl-Alexandre Robyn
Good Things Come to Those Who Are Construction Inspectors
by M Shafiq