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Our Economics and Finance titles are essential reading for students, scholars, policymakers, and market practitioners who want to stay up-to-date with the latest research and foundational topics in the field, from financial markets and trade to e-commerce, econometrics, quantiative investing, financial technology, financial engineering, global finance, corporate finance, law and economics, macro and microeconomics, and risk management.

Titles manage to balance quality of content with the increasing demand for a wider view of the vast array of topics in the field of Economics and Finance.

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    • Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques

      In Support of the Energy Transition and a Circular Economy
      • 1st Edition
      • Sasan Zahmatkesh + 3 more
      • English
      Plate Heat Exchanger Enhancement Techniques: in Support of the Energy Transition and a Circular Economy provides fundamental knowledge on the applications of the plate heat exchanger (PHE) and how it can be optimized to make energy conversion more efficient. In addition, it introduces relevant studies that explain the heat transfer mechanism of the PHE, its design, and how developing more compact and evolved heat exchangers contributes to a sustainable, cleaner, and more energy-efficient future. Researchers, scientists, engineers, professionals, and students working in nanotechnology, materials science, and sustainability will find this volume valuable to their work.

    • Contemporary Financial Intermediation

      • 5th Edition
      • Stuart I. Greenbaum + 2 more
      • English
      Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive and integrated exploration of financial markets and institutions, focusing on the pivotal role of information and economic reasoning. This edition emphasizes the transformative impact of the information technology revolution, particularly the rise of digitization and fintech, on the financial services industry. By weaving these developments into each chapter, the book enables readers to understand how evolving technologies reshape financial systems, institutions, and regulatory environments. The text provides the analytical tools and quantitative skills necessary to grasp the complexities, vulnerabilities, and innovations that define contemporary financial intermediation.Addit... sections examine the adaptability and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets, underscoring the importance of risk management—including cyber risk—in today’s dynamic landscape. Updated chapters and improved pedagogical supplements enrich the learning experience, making the material accessible yet rigorous. Readers gain insight into why markets, institutions, and regulators change, the recurring nature of financial crises, and typical responses to such events.

    • Performance Attribution Volume 2

      Analysis and Reporting
      • 2nd Edition
      • Brian Singer + 2 more
      • English
      Performance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), its concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.

    • A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management

      • 1st Edition
      • Jonathan Schachter + 2 more
      • English
      A First Course in Model Validation and Model Risk Management offers robust coverage for current and future financial engineers. Useful as part of a masters program, for self-study, or as a valuable reference, the textbook explains in step-by-step, practical terms how mathematical models owned by financial institutions are essential to their public activities, including sales, trading, risk management, and internal audits. Like a diverse fleet of cars maintained by a rental car location, a bank must make sure customers can "drive" any of its models for a specific financial product. The book covers both pricing and risk models. Chapters consider modeling basics, marked-to-market and marked-to-model asset classes, market risk, credit risk, portfolio risk, operational risk, capital model risk, and financial crime, along with machine learning/AI.To support course use and practical applications, the text provides examples in Python throughout, as well as an appendix containing homework problems for all chapters, further supported by an ftp site for data and sample code. Additional appendices cover global model risk management, and a refresher in statistics.

    • Commodities for Sustainable Development

      Exchange-Traded Commodities and Other Commodity-linked Financial Instruments
      • 1st Edition
      • Adam Marszk
      • English
      Commodities for Sustainable Development: Exchange-Traded Commodities and Other Commodity-linked Financial Instruments offers detailed, highly focused insight into commodities investing in line with sustainability and ESG principles. It uniquely focuses on commodities in the sustainable/ESG investment portfolios with the exposure gained through the units of ETCs, and it provides an up-to-date review of the literature and theoretical concepts in this emerging area of commodities investing. It is designed as a detailed discussion of various topics concerning commodities and their role in sustainability, understood twofold as contributions or barriers to sustainable development and one of the major components in sustainable investing portfolios.The book explains the main features of ETCs and compares them to other similar financial products—especially the ones used for commodities investing—indicating their relative strengths and weaknesses. It also discusses the possible impact of ETCs on related markets, including the ones for the underlying assets, derived from empirical and theoretical examinations. The empirical analysis presented in the book covers all ETCs available globally, thus offering valuable insights into the often-understudied markets. It also covers the possible application of ETCs as tools for sustainable investing in commodities. It discusses problematic issues linked to commodities investments (from the sustainability perspective) and assesses the ESG profile of the major ETCs, also as detailed case studies. It also discusses sustainable development policies in the context of the commodities and financial investment industries.This book serves as a valuable resource for a wide range of readers—researchers, students, instructors, and professionals alike—due to its theoretical and empirical outline of the commodities-linked financial instruments, particularly ETCs.

    • Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One

      Asset Pricing and Models
      • 2nd Edition
      • Russ Wermers + 2 more
      • English
      Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume One: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio evaluation. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), this Second Edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model and the new models of Fama and French, new examples, and new work on qualitative considerations. This highly detailed new edition combines academic rigor with practical applications and guidance for applications of diverse approaches.

    • Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation

      Solving Climate-Geoengineering Technology Problems
      • 1st Edition
      • John R. Vacca
      • English
      Environmental Meteorology and Climate Manipulation: Solving Climate-Geoengineeri... Technology Problems serves as a complete and concise view of climate engineering, where geoengineering is an umbrella term for human interventions that change and modify the earth's climate system. The book offers in-depth coverage of how human activity is shaping the earth more than natural forces; where it can be seen as a way of redesigning and modifying the atmosphere of the planet. It offers more viable solutions for climate engineering through theory, technology, and practice, as they relate to established technologies as well as recent and future advancements.

    • Keynesian Behavioral Macroeconomics

      • 1st Edition
      • Theodore Koutsobinas
      • English
      Keynesian Behavioral Macroeconomics analyzes Keynes’s landmark contributions in behavioral economics and develops a new and fresh genre of macroeconomic analysis. It compels us to consider seriously the earlier-generation warnings about the impact of investors’ animal spirits and financiers’ liquidity-presence using cognitive-based and social psychology heuristics. Innovative in its subject matter, approach, theoretical development and policy prescriptions, this constructivist pluralist approach can contribute to important debates. This fresh look in macroeconomics can fruitfully be applied by macroeconomists, policymakers, and market participants to prevent effective demand shortages, stimulate the economy, preserve job creation, and impact redistribution, sustainability and social inclusion.In this timely book, Theodore Koutsobinas develops a synthesis of Keynes’s macroeconomic theory with contemporary developments in behavioral macroeconomics to analyze urgent real-world challenges, and he proposes successful solutions for macroeconomic policy. This volume uniquely explains how Keynes’s magnificent, crucial, but long-forgotten dynamics can be analyzed on the basis of behavioral foundations to explain amplified global finance cycles, booms and busts, and macroeconomic instability with harmful effects on incomes and jobs.

    • Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

      An Opportunity Nexus
      • 1st Edition
      • Léo-Paul Dana + 1 more
      • English
      Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Opportunity Nexus is a comprehensive collection of research articles and case studies exploring the role of women-owned businesses in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Written by global experts, this book delves into theoretical and empirical research that underscores the importance of female entrepreneurship in promoting sustainable development. The content spans various contexts, providing a rich understanding of how sustainability is perceived and implemented in different settings.The book addresses critical topics such as gender differences in entrepreneurship, the influence of the female workforce on sustainability, and the significance of female-led intrapreneurship within corporate sustainability strategies. It serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and students interested in sustainable entrepreneurship, offering practical guidance to support women in creating sustainable enterprises that contribute to achieving the SDGs.

    • Sustainability

      A Multidisciplinary Endeavour
      • 1st Edition
      • Liliana L. Mammino
      • English
      Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Endeavour offers a comprehensive overview of the contributions of various disciplines to sustainability, along with possible synergies that could develop among them. The first part of the book covers sustainability science from each related scientific discipline, such as environmental science, engineering, and medicine and economy, highlighting cross disciplinary pathways. The second half of the book offers insights into how each of the green sciences relate to each other and to education on sustainability. This framework is ideal for scientists and researchers in adjacent areas of sustainability.

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