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  • Contemporary Financial Intermediation

    • 5th Edition
    • Stuart I. Greenbaum + 2 more
    • English
    Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Fifth Edition offers a distinctive approach to the study of financial markets and institutions by presenting an integrated portrait that puts information and economic reasoning at the core. The book explores the implications of the information technology revolution that characterizes the financial services industry with digitization and fintech as important manifestations. Sections explore the subtlety, plasticity, and fragility of financial institutions and credit markets, and the ramifications for risk management (including cyber risk). This textbook demands more in terms of quantitative skills and analysis, but its ability to teach about the forces shaping the financial world is unmatched. For the financial sector, the best preprofessional training explains the reasons why markets, institutions, and regulators evolve the way they do, why we suffer recurring financial crises, how we typically react to them, and how digitization and fintech will affect financial services and the industry at large. This book provides students with a complete foundation on the subject, presenting a strong basis for learning and understanding key challenges surrounding the management and operations of financial institutions and their competitive environment.

  • Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions

    • 2nd Edition
    • John Hill
    • English
    Fintech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions, Second Edition explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of Fintech, this book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations, and social considerations. The second edition expands and updates topics covered in the first edition, with particular emphasis on current and expected impact of AI; maturation of crypto and consequent regulatory issues; international developments; and the continued integration of technology advances in large financial institutions. This book shows how Fintech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation, and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts.

  • Computational and Modeling Approaches to Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 70
    • English
    Computational and Modeling Approaches to Development, Volume 70 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, continues the tradition of this longstanding resource as an essential reference for researchers, scholars, and students in developmental psychology and related disciplines. It presents timely updates and fresh perspectives on a broad range of developmental processes, integrating insights from cognitive, social, emotional, and biological domains. Each chapter enhances understanding of the mechanisms underlying children’s growth and adaptation, making this release an indispensable resource for those seeking to remain informed about emerging directions and methodologies in the field.Chapters feature contributions from an international panel of authors, offering comprehensive reviews and theoretical advances that reflect the current state of knowledge in child development and behavior.

  • Performance Attribution Volume Two

    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.

  • Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

    Tools and Applications for Modeling
    • 2nd Edition
    • Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
    • English
    Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling, Second Edition provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing, and controlling mobility patterns—a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications, and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Fields covered are evolving rapidly, and this new edition updates existing material and provides new chapters that reflect recent developments in the field (such as the emergence of active, transfer and reinforcement learning).Users will find a detailed, mobility ‘structural’ analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements, limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data’s impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.

  • 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 highly focused insights into commodities investing inline with sustainability and ESG principles. It uniquely focuses on commodities in sustainable/ESG investment portfolios, with the exposure gained through the units of ETCs, also providing an up-to-date reviews of literature and theoretical concepts. Sections explain the main features of ETCs and compare them to other similar financial products—especially ones used for commodities investing—indicating their relative strengths and weaknesses. Additional sections discusses the possible impact of ETCs on related markets, including underlying assets and those 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. 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.

  • Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling

    • 2nd Edition
    • Dominique Lord + 2 more
    • English
    Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling, Second Edition comprehensively covers the key elements for effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway safety data analysis in a single reference. It includes all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting and assembling data to developing models and evaluating results. It discusses the challenges of working with crash and naturalistic data, identifies problems, and proposes well-researched methods to solve them. It examines the nuances associated with safety data analysis and shows how to best use the information to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the frequency and severity of traffic crashes.This thoroughly updated second edition updates the material contained in the book based on the latest advancements in highway safety research as well as feedback from readers. It includes entirely new sections on topics such as digital twins as a source of data, model validation, extreme value models, temporal instability, joint crash frequency and severity modeling, sample size, quasi-induced exposure method, autonomous vehicle safety estimate, and more.This book serves as a valuable reference for students, researchers, and practitioners alike. It provides more examples and exercises to help in using the book for courses, and it continues to complement the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AAHSTO), thus helping in the training of engineers and practitioners to better understand the concepts and methods outlined in the forthcoming HSM.

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