Liquidity and Asset Prices

Yakov Amihud
Paperback - $111.95

Liquidity and Asset Prices reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empiric ...

New Frontiers in Banking Services : Emerging Needs and Tailored Products for Untapped Markets

Luisa Anderloni
Hardcover - $252.95

The book is devoted to a subject which deserves growing attention from policy makers, financial operators and academics. It is the issue of unbanking or underbanking in developed countries.

With respect to this, the goal of the authors has been th ...

Sovereign Default Risk Valuation : Implications of Debt Crises and Bond Restructurings

Jochen Andritzky
Paperback - $195.95

Past cycles of sovereign lending and default  in emerging markets suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. In addressing debt crises it has proven helpful to distinguish between situations of illiquidity and insolvency. Solutions range ...

Handbook of Alternative Assets

Mark J. P. Anson
Hardcover - $137.95

Since the first edition of the Handbook of Alternative Assets was published, significant events— from the popping of the technology bubble and massive accounting scandals to recessions and bear markets— have shifted the financial landscape. ...

Portfolio Performance Evaluation

George O. Aragon
Paperback - $191.95

Portfolio Performance Evaluation reviews the academic literature on evaluating portfolio performance, focusing on professionally managed investment portfolios. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new methods for performance evaluation and new ...

Intern'l Finance Review V5

Arbel
Hardcover - $246.95

This book is a collection of 21 original papers on Latin American finance by prominent researchers in and out of the region. This is an attempt to bring them together under the same umbrella so that the commonality and peculiarity of Latin finance ca ...

Banking and Charity in Sixteenth-Century Italy : The Holy Monte Di Piet of Rome (1539-84)

Federico Arcelli
Paperback - $26.95

In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy, officially approved pawnbroking institutions, monti di piet, were founded in various cities, culminating in the Sacro Monte di Piet of Rome. Based on Franciscan ideals, they provided an essential social serv ...

The Forex Chartist Companion : A Visual Approach to Technical Analysis

Michael Duane Archer
Paperback - $136.95

THE FOREX CHARTIST COMPANION

The foreign exchange (Forex) market has quickly become the market of choice for traders looking to increase their profit potential. The combination of high liquidity and low transaction costs— as well as twenty-fo ...

Islamic Finance : The Regulatory Challenge

Simon Archer
Hardcover - $191.95

An Islamic financial services sector is rapidly developing to meet the burgeoning need for financial institutions that are not interest-based, or which otherwise contravene the principles of Islamic commercial jurisprudence. The Islamic Financial Ser ...

The Economics of Microfinance

Beatriz Armendariz
Paperback - $49.95

An assessment of "the microfinance revolution" from an economics perspective that draws on lessons from academia and international practice to challenge conventional assumptions.