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Investment under Uncertainty
Dixit, Avinash K.; Pindyck, Robert S. - Princeton University Press
How should firms decide whether and when to invest in new capital equipment, additions to their workforce, or the development of new products? Why have traditional economic models of investment failed to explain the behavior of investment spending in the United States and other countries? In...
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Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
Lépinay, Vincent Antonin - Princeton University Press
widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lépinay, a former …
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of local events now cascade over national borders and the...
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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History
Coyle, Diane - Princeton University Press
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013—or Ghana’s balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008—just as the world’s financial system went into meltdown? And why...
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High-Frequency Financial Econometrics
Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Jacod, Jean - Princeton University Press
High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing high-frequency financial data has grown exponentially. This growth has been...
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Beautiful Game Theory: How Soccer Can Help Economics
Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio - Princeton University Press
microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance …
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
Prasad, Eswar S. - Princeton University Press
remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on … incentive to prevent a dollar crash. Prasad takes the reader through key contemporary issues in international finance … finance. The Dollar Trap offers a panoramic analysis of the fragile state of global finance and makes a compelling case that …
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Playing at Acquisitions: Behavioral Option Games
Smit, Han; Moraitis, Thras - Princeton University Press
latest advances in behavioral finance, real option valuation, and game theory, this unique playbook explains how to express …
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Financing higher education: Comparing the options
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper analyses three options for financing higher education:• Tax funding, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats and, more recently, the Tories.• Tax funding plus upfront charges, as at present.• Tax funding plus deferred charges, as proposed in the White Paper on highereducation...
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Financing higher education in the UK: The 2003 White Paper
Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper – a companion to Iain Crawford's and my earlier evidence to the SelectCommittee (Barr, 2002a,b,c,d,e; Crawford, 2002) – offers a strongly supportive assessmentof the strategy in the White Paper (Department for Education and Skills, 2003).[...]
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