Category Archives: Banks & Banking

Emergent Macroeconomics: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations (New Economic Windows)

This valuable book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics. It provides a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances … Continue reading

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The Industrial Organization of Banking: Bank Behavior, Market Structure, and Regulation

The academic literature commonly examines issues relating to bank behavior, market structure, or bank regulation by abstracting from interrelationships among these factors. From a policy perspective, however, these elements of the industrial organization of banking are inextricably linked. The goal … Continue reading

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Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis)

Originally written for a conference of the Federal Reserve, Gary Gorton’s “The Panic of 2007″ garnered enormous attention and is considered by many to be the most convincing take on the recent economic meltdown. Now, in Slapped by the Invisible … Continue reading

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Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series)

As with the first edition, Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering combines financial motivation with mathematical style. Assuming only basic knowledge of probability and calculus, it presents three major areas of mathematical finance, namely Option pricing based on … Continue reading

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Option Pricing in Fractional Brownian Markets (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

The scientific debate of recent years about option pricing with respect to fractional Brownian motion was focused on the feasibility of the no arbitrage pricing approach. As the unrestricted fractional market setting allows for arbitrage, the conventional reasoning is that … Continue reading

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Clearing Services for Global Markets: A Framework for the Future Development of the Clearing Industry

Clearing forms the core part of a smooth and efficiently functioning financial market infrastructure. Traditionally, it has been provided by clearing houses, most of which today act as a ‘central counterparty’ (CCP) between the two sides of a trade. The … Continue reading

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Unravelling the Credit Crunch

Fascinating Insight into How the Financial System Works and How the Credit Crisis Arose Clearly supplies details vital to understanding the crisis Unravelling the Credit Crunch provides a clearly written, comprehensive account of the current credit crisis that is easily … Continue reading

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Pricing, Risk, and Performance Measurement in Practice: The Building Block Approach to Modeling Instruments and Portfolios (The Elsevier and Mondo Visione World Capital Markets)

How can managers increase their ability to calculate price and risk data for financial instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants? Wolfgang Schwerdt and Marcelle von Wendland created a simple and consistent way to handle … Continue reading

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The Professional’s Guide to Financial Services Marketing: Bite-Sized Insights For Creating Effective Approaches

The Professional’s Guide to Financial Services Marketing is directed to any financial services professional–from individual representatives to executives of large financial services companies–who is looking for better ways to create the relevant marketplace differentiation and competitive advantage needed to increase … Continue reading

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Handbook of Financial Markets: Dynamics and Evolution (Handbooks in Finance)

The models of portfolio selection and asset price dynamics in this volume seek to explain the market dynamics of asset prices. Presenting a range of analytical, empirical, and numerical techniques as well as several different modeling approaches, the authors depict … Continue reading

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