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Although mathematicians have known about complex numbers as solutions to equations since the seventeenth century, the numbers had few applications until the twentieth century. Today, their applications include mobile phones, satellite navigation, imaging techniques (MRI, PET), and circuit design in computers. Until recently, however, there were few applications of complex numbers to finance. This situation has changed. Multiple Interest Rate Analysis is the study of all interest rates solving th...

The Future BRICS provides in depth quantitative and qualitative questions and answers about the future of the BRICS Forum as a synergistic economic alliance and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the ongoing international debate about the economic future and sustainability of the emerging markets in general.

Reputation is a commercially valuable asset. This book focuses upon how enhanced reputation can contribute to commercial asset management through increased share price premium and competitive performance. It also looks at how reputation loss can significantly erode the ability of business to successfully retain market share, maximise shareholder value, raise finance, manage debt and remain independent. It provides practical models and checklists designed to plan reputation management and risk co...

When the first rumblings of the coming financial crisis were heard in August 2007, three men who were never elected to public office suddenly became the most powerful men in the world. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central banks: Ben Bernanke of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Mervyn King of the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet of the European Central Bank. Over the next five years, they and their fellow central bankers deployed trillions of dollars, pounds and euro...

Financial Risk Management and Derivative Instruments offers an introduction to the riskiness of stock markets and the application of derivative instruments in managing exposure to such risk. Structured in two parts, the first part offers an introduction to stock market and bond market risk as encountered by investors seeking investment growth. The second part of the text introduces the financial derivative instruments that provide for either a reduced exposure (hedging) or an increased exposure...

This book explains how investor behavior, from mental accounting to the combustible interplay of hope and fear, affects financial economics. The transformation of portfolio theory begins with the identification of anomalies. Gaps in perception and behavioral departures from rationality spur momentum, irrational exuberance, and speculative bubbles. Behavioral accounting undermines the rational premises of mathematical finance. Assets and portfolios are imbued with “affect.” Positive and negative...

This is a different kind of book on project management. Using a narrative tone, humor and personal anecdotes, the author highlights the significant gaps in current project management theory as well as disparities within project management practice. This book then provides managers with new models for project management and value creation using chaos and complexity theories, systems thinking and quantum mechanics to explore a more holistic view of project management. Drawing on these bodies of kn...

Tim Nießer widmet sich in diesem Buch kostenbezogenen Vorgaben für die Konstruktion von Produkten, die für den anonymen Absatzmarkt hergestellt werden, wobei diese Vorgaben insbesondere der daraus resultierenden Risikosituation Rechnung tragen sollen. Als Ergebnis präsentiert er ein auf einer Kombination investitions- und kostenrechnerischer Methoden fußendes und an einem durchgehenden Fallbeispiel veranschaulichtes Simulationsmodell, anhand dessen sich Risikoziele entscheidungslogisch fu...

This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors. Particular emphasis is placed on the verification of essential factors and features for asset returns through model search approaches, in which non-diversifiability and statistical inferences are considered. The discussion reemphasizes the necessity of maintaining a dichotomy between the nondiversifiable pricing kernels and the individual co...

Unternehmenskrisen gehören heutzutage zum Lebenszyklus eines Wirtschaftsunternehmens dazu. Es wird nicht mehr gefragt, ob ein Unternehmen von einer Krise getroffen wird, sondern viel mehr wann. Die vorliegende Studie zielt darauf ab, zu prüfen wie Mitarbeitende von Unternehmenskrisen betroffen sind und wie sich ihr informelles Kommunikationsverhalten auf ihre Krisenwahrnehmung und Krisenreaktion auswirkt. Die Ergebnisse einer quantitativen Online-Befragung in einem deutschen Großkonzern (n=3.970...

This book closely examines the concept and theory of 'future' from a multidisciplinary perspective, focusing on the practice of forecasting, especially in its interaction with complexity. It highlights the relations between forecasting, decision-making and strategy, mixing technical arguments (but minimal mathematics) with ideas from psychology and philosophy. Rich with examples, the book highlights the role of values and attitudes in deciding how to look at the future. Written in a casual but...

In Trade Like an Insider, Moreland will show experienced and new investors how they can also accurately time the market, and invest in the right securities at the right times and therefore avoid the big downturns and profit from the major upturns in the worldwide financial markets. As author of the popular investing newsletter, “Invest with the Insiders,” Jonathan Moreland has never to be amazed by the poor financial market investing advice given by so-called financial market “experts”, includi...

Strategy, risk management and project management are often considered separately by those applying their principles—but at their most effective, all are dependent upon each other for success. Enlightened Planning teaches this holistic perspective and demonstrates how a synthesis of these approaches yields far greater opportunities. A strategic, calculated risk, for example, can be less inherently risky than chronic risk aversion over time. Here, a respected specialist and teacher demonstrates...

Credit Portfolio Management is a topical text on approaches to the active management of credit risks. The book is a valuable, up to date guide for portfolio management practitioners. Its content comprises of three main parts: The framework for managing credit risks, Active Credit Portfolio Management in practice and Hedging techniques and toolkits.

The Handbook is a virtual encyclopedia of public financial management, written by topmost experts, many with a background in the IMF and World Bank. It provides the first comprehensive guide to the subject that has been published in more than ten years. The book is aimed at a broad audience of academics/students, government officials, development agencies and practitioners. It covers both bread-and-butter topics such as the macroeconomic and legal framework for budgeting, budget preparation and...

Der „gute Ruf“ eines Kreditinstituts ist für das Bankgeschäft ökonomisch bedeutend. Andreas G. Wolf analysiert in diesem Buch Reputationsrisiken von Banken. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Absatzchancen und Unternehmensreputation wird am Beispiel eines großen deutschen Wohnimmobilienfinanzierers aufgezeigt. Auf Basis empirischer Ergebnisse werden Handlungsempfehlungen für die Unternehmenssteuerung und das Reputationsrisikomanagement in der Bankpraxis gegeben.

This book presents practical Risk Management and Trading applications for the Electricity Markets. Various methodologies developed over the last few years are considered and current literature is reviewed. The book emphasizes the relationship between trading, hedging and generation asset management.

The recent crisis in financial markets has seen a gradual erosion of risk-free asset classes. In equity markets the credit risk has reached a critical level in valuation. Here a new cost of equity method for private companies is presented based on the pricing of junior subordinated notes. Global business cases are illustrated to support this.