Books in Economics and finance

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.

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Bedlam Among the Bedpans

1st Edition
August 31, 2006
Amy Y. Young
English

A must-read for nursing professionals, Bedlam Among the Bedpans: Humor in Nursing, includes over 100 of the funniest and most creative stories about nursing collected from nursing journals, books, and the internet that highlight the humor in the situations nurses face every day. Inspired by the experiences of real nurses, the stories relate situations with insights that only nurses who have "been there" in the field could have.

Strategic Business Planning for Accountants

1st Edition
August 31, 2006
Dimitris N. Chorafas
English
eBook
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This book examines the practice of strategic business planning, including its functions, methods, tools, and the way in which they are employed. It does so in a practical way through case studies, which help in demonstrating how to innovate in order to overcome obstacles and cover new and evolving challenges.The book is divided into six parts : • part 1 focuses on the strategic plan, as master plan of the enterprise • part 2 covers the management functions whose able execution makes the difference between success and failure: forecasting, planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling • part 3 demonstrates that modern accounting rules, promoted by IFRS and US GAAP, not only assist in strategic financial planning but also provide a solid basis for management supervision and control • part 4 brings your attention the fact that costs matter. Strategic business plans that pay little or no attention to cost factors are doomed • part 5 addresses the issues associated with strategic products and markets. These range from research and development to market research, product planning, the able management of marketing functions, and sales effectiveness• part 6 concludes the book with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, and consolidations and the risks associated with an M&A policyChief executives, operating officers, treasurers, financial officers, budget directors, accountants, auditors, product planners, marketing directors, and management accounting specialists will find this book of practical examples helpful to their decisions and to their work.

Risk and Management Accounting

1st Edition
August 11, 2006
Paul M. M Collier + 2 more
English
eBook
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This CIMA research report builds on a pilot study undertaken by the authors. A framework for risk management was developed as a result of the research. This research report describes the results of a major survey-based research study entitled ‘Risk and Management Accounting: The development of best practice guidelines for enterprise-wide internal control procedures to identify and manage risk; the contribution of and the consequences for management accountants’.

Mosby's Review for the NBDE, Part I

1st Edition
July 25, 2006
Mosby
English

This complete exam review provides crucial, current information on each of the basic sciences addressed in Part I of the National Board Dental Examination (NBDE), including Anatomic Sciences, Biochemistry and Physiology, Microbiology and Pathology, and Dental Anatomy and Occlusion. Written by recognized authorities in their fields, material is presented in a concise, convenient outline format. Content is arranged according to the specifications of the NBDE, and supported by informative examples and illustrations.

Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

1st Edition
Volume 1
July 20, 2006
Serge-Christophe Kolm + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The Handbook on the Economics of Giving, Reciprocity and Altruism provides a comprehensive set of reviews of literature on the economics of nonmarket voluntary transfers. The foundations of the field are reviewed first, with a sequence of chapters that present the hard core of the theoretical and empirical analyses of giving, reciprocity and altruism in economics, examining their relations with the viewpoints of moral philosophy, psychology, sociobiology, sociology and economic anthropology. Secondly, a comprehensive set of applications are considered of all the aspects of society where nonmarket voluntary transfers are significant: family and intergenerational transfers; charity and charitable institutions; the nonprofit economy; interpersonal relations in the workplace; the Welfare State; and international aid.

Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

1st Edition
Volume 2
July 19, 2006
Serge-Christophe Kolm + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Funds of Hedge Funds

1st Edition
July 18, 2006
Greg N. Gregoriou
English
eBook
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With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds. A Fund of Hedge Funds (FOF) spreads investments among a number of hedge funds to reduce risk and provide diversification, while maintaining the potential for higher than average returns. Odds are that some pension fund of yours is invested heavily in these products, and more recently these FOFs have been opened to more and more individual investors in offshore jurisdictions with lower minimum entry levels. Since this is a new and extremely fast-moving financial phenomenon, academic research has just begun in earnest, and this is the first book to present rigorous academic research by some of the leading lights in academic finance, carefully analyzing the broad array of issues involved in FOFs.

Managing Enterprise Risk: What the Electric Industry Experience Implies for Contemporary Business

1st Edition
July 17, 2006
Karyl B Leggio
English
eBook
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The increasing complexity of emerging business models and a growing societal concern with the integrity of financial reporting now leads to new emphases on accountability within large, publicly traded energy corporations. Managing Enterprise Risk: What the Electric Industry Experience Implies for Contemporary Business emphasizes the implications these issues have in the electric industry, a traditional infrastructure that underlies the digital society and now faces extraordinary environmental, regulatory, and technological uncertainties.

Handbook of Asset and Liability Management

1st Edition
July 17, 2006
Stavros A. Zenios + 1 more
English
eBook
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This first volume of the Handbook of Asset and Liability Management presents the theories and methods supporting models that align a firm's operations and tactics with its uncertain environment. Detailing the symbiosis between optimization tools and financial decision-making, its original articles cover term and volatility structures, interest rates, risk-return analysis, dynamic asset allocation strategies in discrete and continuous time, the use of stochastic programming models, bond portfolio management, and the Kelly capital growth theory and practice. They effectively set the scene for Volume Two by showing how the management of risky assets and uncertain liabilities within an integrated, coherent framework remains the core problem for both financial institutions and other business enterprises as well.

Handbook of Computational Economics

1st Edition
Volume 2
May 15, 2006
Leigh Tesfatsion + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The explosive growth in computational power over the past several decades offers new tools and opportunities for economists. This handbook volume surveys recent research on Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), the computational study of economic processes modeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. Empirical referents for "agents" in ACE models can range from individuals or social groups with learning capabilities to physical world features with no cognitive function. Topics covered include: learning; empirical validation; network economics; social dynamics; financial markets; innovation and technological change; organizations; market design; automated markets and trading agents; political economy; social-ecological systems; computational laboratory development; and general methodological issues.

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Books in Economics and finance

Bedlam Among the Bedpans

Strategic Business Planning for Accountants

Risk and Management Accounting

Mosby's Review for the NBDE, Part I

Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity

Funds of Hedge Funds

Managing Enterprise Risk: What the Electric Industry Experience Implies for Contemporary Business

Handbook of Asset and Liability Management

Handbook of Computational Economics

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