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  • Derivative Instruments

    A Guide to Theory and Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Brian Eales + 1 more
    • English
    The authors concentrate on the practicalities of each class of derivative, so that readers can apply the techniques in practice. Product descriptions are supported by detailed spreadsheet models, illustrating the techniques employed.This book is ideal reading for derivatives traders, salespersons, financial engineers, risk managers, and other professionals involved to any extent in the application and analysis of OTC derivatives.
  • Dividend Policy

    Theory and Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • George Frankfurter + 2 more
    • English
    Dividend Policy provides a comprehensive study of dividend policy. It explores the puzzle presented by dividends: irrational and subject to fashion, yet popular and desirable, they remain a priority among managers, even while perceived as largely symbolic. After exploring the history of dividend payments, from the emergence of the modern corporation to current perspectives, it traces the evolution of academic models on dividend policy. Here the authors review models of symmetric and asymmetric information before analyzing academia's accomplishments in solving the dividend puzzle. Related subjects, such as valuation and wealth distribution, round out the authors' presentation about new ways to think about one of the most intriguing subjects in financial economics. The book is recommended for professors and students in departments of finance and business, corporate finance staff, and financial regulators.
  • Handbook of Heavy Tailed Distributions in Finance

    Handbooks in Finance, Book 1
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • S.T Rachev
    • English
    The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in the field of finance. Each individual volume in the series should present an accurate self-contained survey of a sub-field of finance, suitable for use by finance and economics professors and lecturers, professional researchers, graduate students and as a teaching supplement. The goal is to have a broad group of outstanding volumes in various areas of finance. The Handbook of Heavy Tailed Distributions in Finance is the first handbook to be published in this series.This volume presents current research focusing on heavy tailed distributions in finance. The contributions cover methodological issues, i.e., probabilistic, statistical and econometric modelling under non- Gaussian assumptions, as well as the applications of the stable and other non -Gaussian models in finance and risk management.
  • The International Meat Trade

    • 1st Edition
    • Jennifer Spencer
    • English
    With various crises experienced in the meat supply chain in the UK and elsewhere, seldom has the international meat industry been subject to so much attention as it is in the opening years of the 21st century. This major looseleaf represents the first comprehensive overview of the meat industry worldwide, and looks at production, consumption, prices, trade and policy profiles and developments in the key jurisdictions for each of the major product groups – cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. It provides a wealth of market statistics and analysis of trends, future outlook, threats and opportunities. This is an in-depth survey that no-one involved in the international meat marketplace can afford to be without.
  • Life-Cycle Savings and Public Policy

    A Cross-National Study of Six Countries
    • 1st Edition
    • Axel Borsch-Supan
    • English
    Life-Cycle Savings and Public Policy examines data on many households from a number of different countries. The hope is that through these observations we can learn about the ways policies affect savings, and that other differences among savers can be controlled for, instead of being blamed on cultural differences. This book features a consistent framework among chapters. It reaches a harmony between measurement and analysis to compare accurately the resulting data and statistics. It provides econometric methodology to reveal the way policies affect savings. The book features data on household savings in Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. This book is recommended reading for anyone interested in saving, social insurance policy, or capital formation.
  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • Bruce L. Gardner + 1 more
    • English
  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    Agriculture and its External Linkages
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2A
    • Bruce L. Gardner + 1 more
    • English
    The subject matter of agricultural economics has both broadened and deepened and the chapters of this handbook present innovative work in the field. This volume contains sections on "agriculture, natural resources and the environment" and "agriculture in the macroeconomy". Volume 2B completes the handbook with a section on "agriculture and food policy". Although agricultural economists have always paid attention to these topics, research devoted to them has increased substantially in scope as well as depth in recent years.
  • Handbook of Agricultural Economics

    Agricultural and Food Policy
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2B
    • Bruce L. Gardner + 1 more
    • English
  • Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007

    • 5th Edition
    • R. Reidy
    • English
    This fifth edition of Profile of the International Pump Industry - Market Prospects to 2007 reviews the markets, technological trends, and major manufacturers of industrial pumps. Profile of the International Pump Industry covers both the international pump industry and its associated market, illustrating the structure of the industry, highlighting developments, identifying future trends, and looking at recent mergers and acquisitions. Market estimates and forecasts to 2007, by region and pump type, are presented along with an analysis of the main end-user markets for industrial pumps, and a technology overview. Forty leading international pump manufacturers are profiled and a Top 20 league table of pump manufacturers, ranked by sales of pumps, is given. A directory of pump manufacturing companies and an index of companies by product type are also included.
  • Real R & D Options

    • 1st Edition
    • Dean Paxson
    • English
    Real R&D options are among the earliest modelled real options, with now ten primary practical uses: general R&D planning, planning R&D in stages, evaluating test information, new product development timing, operations, abandonment, risk sharing, market funding, industry strategy and regulation. This book was partly motivated by requests to identify and develop real option models for R&D in telecommunications, petroleum technology and biotechnology. Nine new models cover information and implementation costs, analytical solutions for mean reverting, or fat tailed revenues, endogenous learning and exogenous and experiential shocks, American sequential options, and innovator advantages. Four new applications include forward start development options, exploration options, innovation with information costs, and innovator's real values with changing market share. R&D directors and researchers will find several uses for these models: general R&D planning evaluating test information new product development timing risk sharing industry strategy and regulation