Principles of financial engineering

European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

The purpose of the volume is to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI. The volume deals with two levels of discussion: First, by ...

Economic capital allocation with Basel II

Cost, benefit and implementation procedures

This book is a complimentary follow-on book to Operational Risk Control with Basel II. While the previous book focuses on operational risk, Economic Capital Allocation provides an overview of credit risk within the context of the Basel II accords. The book provides: -Comprehensive coverage of ...

Marketing wireless products

The city as an entertainment machine

This volume explores how consumption and entertainment change cities. But it reverses the "normal" causal process. That is, many chapters analyze how consumption and entertainment drive urban development, not vice versa. How? People both live and work in cities. And where they choose to live ...

Pricing and hedging interest and credit risk sensitive instruments

This book is tightly focused on the pricing and hedging of fixed income securities and their derivatives. It is targeted at those who are interested in trading these instruments in an investment bank, but is also useful for those responsible for monitoring compliance of the ...

Quantiative methods for business

the a-z of QM

Contents Setting off; Getting linear models straight; Dealing with curves without going round the bend; Filling up - fuelling quantitative analysis; Good visibility - pictorial presentation of data; General directions - summarising data; Two-way traffic - summarising and representing relationships between two variables; Counting the cost - summarising money variables ...

Strategic sport event management

an international approach

Arts marketing

Arts Marketing focuses on a variety of sectors within the arts and addresses the way in which marketing principles are applied within these, outlining both the similarities and the differences that occur. Relating policy to practice, this contributed text demonstrates the most effective means of ...

Beyond the boundaries of the firm

integrating theories of the firm and theories of markets

This volume examines the concepts of markets and firms in contemporary economic theory and challenges the notion that markets and firms are neatly separable, polar approaches to economic oranising. The papers in the volume explore a number of ways in which firms may be seenas ...

Silicon Valley North

a high-tech cluster of innovation and entrepreneurship

The Silicon phenomenon was, is, and will be an extremely important phenomenon in the accelerated technological, scientific, and economic development of countries and regions. Silicon Valley North (SVN) is the high tech capital of Canada, the nation?s most developed and dynamic technology sector, which ...

Miller International accounting/financial reporting standards

guide

Miller International Accounting/Financial Reporting Standards Guide explains and analyzes international accounting standards, which are playing an increasing role in the context of globalization of capital markets. The Guide keeps you up-to-date on the latest International Financial Reporting Standards and the proposed changes on your ...

The future of nuclear power

During the last century, nuclear power has been established as a reliable source of energy in the major industrialised countries. It has recently enjoyed a revival in attention and research due to the environmental concerns surrounding current conventional energy sources. Issues of regulation and safety ...

Integrated renewable energy for rural communities

planning guidelines, technologies and applications

More than two billion people worldwide have currently no access to grid electricity or other efficient energy supply. This is one third of humanity and the majority live in rural areas. The productivity and health of these people are diminished by reliance on traditional fuels ...

Urban transport and the environment

an international perspective

The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local ...

The institutional economics of market-based climate policy

The objective of this book is to analyze the institutional barriers to implementing market-based climate policy, as well as to provide some opportunities to overcome them. The approach is that of institutional economics, with special emphasis on political transaction costs and path dependence. Instead of ...

Financial risk management for pension plans

This book is devoted to modern methodologies of financial risk management of pension plans, mostly defined benefit plans. The reader is expected to know basic probability theory and mathematical analysis, while all required concepts in financial and actuarial mathematics are developed in the text. The ...

New directions in macromodelling

How to manage experience sharing

from organisational surprises to organisational knowledge

This book has grown from a workshop that brought together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of areas, including the safety domain. The focus of the workshop was on the well-known issue of organisational learning and organisational memory. The special merit of the book ...

Reorganizing health care delivery systems

problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery

This book addresses important themes in medical sociology, with papers that range from those with an explicit policy point of view to narrower papers on more specific issues in health care delivery. One of the lessons of the past decade is that no countries in ...