Finance Books

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21. Controlling the Money Supply (Routledge Revivals)

    By David Gowland

    Intended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals, 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with a revised edition in 1984, traces the changes in approach to monetary control in the U.K. throughout the 1970s, and the consequences for policy and the...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
22. The Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Islamic Banking

    A Comparative Look at the United Kingdom and Malaysia

    By Abdul Karim Aldohni

    Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

    During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK. Islamic finance differs quite substantially from conventional banking, using very different mechanisms, and operating according to a different...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
23. Fraud and Carbon Markets

    The Carbon Connection

    By Marius-Christian Frunza

    Series: Environmental Market Insights

    The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and...

    Published April 8th 2013 by Routledge
24. Statistical Methods for Financial Engineering

    By Bruno Remillard

    While many financial engineering books are available, the statistical aspects behind the implementation of stochastic models used in the field are often overlooked or restricted to a few well-known cases. Statistical Methods for Financial Engineering guides current and future practitioners on...

    Published April 4th 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
25. Asset Management and International Capital Markets

    Edited by Wolfgang Bessler, Wolfgang Drobetz, Chris Adcock

    This innovative volume comprises a selection of original research articles offering a broad perspective on various dimensions of asset management in an international capital market environment. The topics covered include risk management and asset pricing models for portfolio management, performance...

    Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
26. The Theory of Futures Trading (Routledge Revivals)

    By Barry Goss

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1972, this book provides an important critical review on the theory of futures trading. B. A. Goss looks at the work and ideas of Keynes and Hicks on futures, and considers how these have also been developed by Kaldor. He discusses the evolution of the concept of hedging in the...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
27. Futures Markets (Routledge Revivals)

    Their Establishment and Performance

    By Barry Goss

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1986, this book discusses many important aspects of the theory and practice of Futures Markets. It describes how they, at the time, grew to be an increasingly important feature of the world's major financial centres. Indeed, they adopted the role of being efficient forward...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
28. Beyond Liquidity

    The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis

    Edited by Brad Pasanek, Simone Polillo

    ‘Liquidity’, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology....

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
29. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia

    By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India,...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
30. Copulae and Multivariate Probability Distributions in Finance

    Edited by Alexandra Dias, Mark Salmon, Chris Adcock

    Portfolio theory and much of asset pricing, as well as many empirical applications, depend on the use of multivariate probability distributions to describe asset returns. Traditionally, this has meant the multivariate normal (or Gaussian) distribution. More recently, theoretical and empirical work...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge