Legal basics of mineral policy in Europe

an overview of 40 countries

This reference covers the legal frameworks of mining of forty European countries, especially those in the southeast, which possess a large wealth of deposits. It discusses relevant legislation and offers an overview of approaches to mineral resources policy.

The China tax guide

This guide is a practical overview for the international businessman to understand the rules, regulations and management issues regarding taxes in China. It is written very much from practical experience. We will help you to understand the implications of what can initially appear be a ...

The ethics of banking

conclusion from the financil crisis

This book analyzes the systemic and the ethical mistakes that have led to the financial crisis of 2008. It explores the middle ground between the argument that financial managers cannot be expected to take responsibility for a systemic crisis and the argument that moral failure ...

The role of the regions in EU governance

Eds. Carlo Panara, Alexander De Becker. This publication compares for the first time how the regions in seven different countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) are involved in EU governance. It is also the first book which tackles this matter from ...

Statistical tools for finance and insurance

Eds. Pavel Cízek, Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Rafal Weron. Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance presents ready-to-use solutions, theoretical developments and method construction for many practical problems in quantitative finance and insurance. Written by practitioners and leading academics in the field, this book offers a unique ...

The Basel II risk parameters

estimation, validation, stress testing - with applications to loan risk management

Eds. Bernd Engelmann, Robert Rauhmeier. The estimation and the validation of the Basel II risk parameters PD (default probability), LGD (loss given fault), and EAD (exposure at default) is an important problem in banking practice. These parameters are used on the one hand as inputs ...

Economic growth

theory and numerical solution methods

This is a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions. Exogenous and endogenous growth models are thoroughly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the use of these models for fiscal and monetary policy analysis. Modern Business ...

The Constitutional integrity of the European Union

Eds. Fabian Amtenbrink, Peter A.J. van den Berg. Each of the Member States of the European Union has its own constitution, which not only contains the organizational structure of the state but also includes elements that provide a sense of order and identity to ...

Handelsrecht

Das Handelsrecht zählt zum zivilrechtlichen Pflichtfachstoff und ist damit Gegenstand der staatlichen Pflichtfachprüfung. Zudem ist es durchweg in die wirtschaftsrechtlichen Schwerpunktbereiche integriert. Vor dem Hintergrund der hierdurch notwendigen Abgrenzung konzentriert sich das Lehrbuch auf die Grundstrukturen des Handelsrechts und diejenigen Bereiche, die in den Prüfungen ...

Mathematical models of financial derivatives

Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives is a textbook on the theory behind modeling derivatives using the financial engineering approach, focussing on the martingale pricing principles that are common to most derivative securities. A wide range of financial derivatives commonly traded in the equity and fixed ...

Production economics

integrateing the microeconomic and engineering perspectives

A production economist focuses on assessment, and will use an aggregate description of technology to answer such questions as: How does the firm compare to its competitors? Has the firm improved its production capabilities? A production engineer focuses on optimizing resources, and will use a ...

Interest rate models

an infinite dimensional stochastic analysis perspective

Interest Rate Models: an Infinite Dimensional Stochastic Analysis Perspective studies the mathematical issues that arise in modeling the interest rate term structure. These issues are approached by casting the interest rate models as stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensions. The book is comprised of three ...

Knowledge management systems

information and communication technologies for knowledge management

Information and knowledge have fundamentally transformed the way businesses and social institutions work. Knowledge management promises concepts and instruments that help organizations to create an environment supportive of knowledge creation, sharing and application. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are often regarded as the enabler for ...

It's not about the technology

developing the craft of thinking for a high technology corporation

It's Not About the Technology is about a phenomenon most dreaded by high-technology industry executives: a failure at the execution leading to a missed market window. High-tech executives agree that a critical factor that drives the company to such a failure is the breakdown ...

The Invisible Hand

economic thought yesterday and today

Economic dynamics and general equilibrium

time and uncertainty

The developments in economic theory in the 1950s served to pinpoint important underlying assumptions in the study of market institutions. The conflict between observed institutions - spot markets for commodities, financial markets - and the benchmark interpretation - forward markets for commodities, allowing all trade to take place ...

Computational intelligence in economics and finance

Due to the ability to handle specific characteristics of economics and finance forecasting problems like e.g. non-linear relationships, behavioral changes, or knowledge- based domain segmentation, we have recently witnessed a phenomenal growth of the application of computational intelligence methodologies in this field. In this ...

Financial markets and martingales

observations on science and speculation

Starting with games of chance, from which probability theory was born, Nicolas Bouleau explains how the financial markets operate, and demonstrates how the application of mathematics has turned finance into a high-tech business, as well as a formidable and efficient tool. The human side of ...

Mathemathics for finance

an introduction to financial engineering

Designed to form the basis of an undergraduate course in mathematical finance, this book builds on mathematical models of bond and stock prices and covers three major areas of mathematical finance that all have an enormous impact on the way modern financial markets operate, namely ...

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