Selling information -- Informed intermediaries -- Independent financial advice -- Mergers & Acquisitions advisory -- Securities underwriting -- Biased analyst recommendations -- Analyst reputation -- Regulation of financial analysts -- Financial innovation -- Asset management -- Brokerage...

1. Sustainable Family Businesses: Concepts and Typology -- 2. Sustainability and Competitive Advantage in Family Businesses -- 3. Sustainable Finance in Family Businesses -- 4. Sustainable Human Resource Management in Family Businesses -- 5. Sustainable Marketing and Public Relations in Family...

Chapter 1. Operations Management: A Curtain Raiser -- Chapter 2. Game Theory: Primitives and Representations -- Chapter 3. Games in Normal Form -- Chapter 4. Games in Normal Form: Applications in OM -- Chapter 5. Games in Extensive Form -- Chapter 6. Games in Extensive Form: Applications in OM...

General structure of the case study -- Course 1: Risk Analysis -- Course unit 1: Graphical representation of risks -- Course unit 2: Variance and standard deviation -- Course unit 3: Models for calculating volatility -- Course 2: Quantitative instruments in risk management -- Course unit 1:...

This textbook presents the fundamental economic dimensions of insurance companies and links them to managerial issues. Combining academic rigour and a strongly practice-oriented approach, it addresses both the competitive environment and the management of the insurance business. Further, it...

Part I: Fundamentals of insurance business The origins and role of insurance in society -- The notion of risk and probability -- The insurance undertaking -- Regulation of the insurance industry -- Supervision and other Authorities -- The insurance business -- The insurance contract -- Life...

This book shows how modern risk management in banks and insurance companies can be modeled in Excel and Matlab. Readers are provided with all the necessary knowledge and skills in a systematic and structured step-by-step manner. Apart from basic Excel knowledge, no previous knowledge is...

Critical Assessments of Economics -- The Role of Money -- A Critical Assessment of Pure Economics -- Redomaining Equilibrium Economics -- Interpreting the Iterated Dilemma Games by using the Presentation Like “Cellular Automatons" -- Evolution of Economics -- The Evolution of Molecule System...

Introduction -- Part 1: Why Corporate Finance for Long-term Value? -- Chapter 1. The Company Within Social and Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Integrated Value Creation -- Chapter 3. Corporate Governance -- Part 2: Discount Rates and Valuation Methods -- Chapter 4. Discount Rates and the...

Volatilities -- Extensions of the Black-Scholes theory to other types of options (futures options, currency options, American options, path-dependent options, multi-asset options) -- Fundamentals: stochastic analysis and applications, interest rate dynamics, and basic principles of pricing...