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Private Equity: A Transactionaly Analysis, Second Edition
  Hale, Chris/ 9781905783335
 
 
Public-Private Partnerships: A Practical Analysis, Second Edition
  Avery, Nicholas/ 9781905783380
 
 
SC04-371 On the Rationality of Borrowers' Behaviour: Comparing Risk Attitudes of Homeowners.
  Neuteboom, Peter/ 9781586039189
 
  On the Rationality of Borrowers’ Behaviour was prompted by two observations: first, mortgage take-up amongst homeowners was fairly divergent across Europe, and second, the fact that this was seen by academic researchers as well as policymakers and financial authorities as an indication of fundamental differences in the risk attitudes of homeowners. Although the time and depth of the cycles differed from one European country to another, mortgage markets have grown in size, expanded in product variation and improved borrowers’ accessibility to mortgage credit. However, this expanding range of mortgage opportunities significantly increases the search and information costs for a borrower, making it harder for him to find the mortgage with the most favourable cost-risk trade-off. Nonetheless, the research reveals that homeowners are still acting as rational customers, i.e. willing and able to choose the optimal mortgage. Meanwhile, the cross-country analysis in this study highlights the role of the institutions, household characteristics, and the structure of national mortgage markets as key elements in shaping the optimal mortgage for homeowners.
SC04-366 Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance.
  Krosinsky, Cary/ 9781844075485
 
  With climate change and the imperative of sustainability transforming the world's capital markets, concerned investors need to know how best to position themselves for potentially radical market change. Billions of dollars, pounds and yen are being managed with a view to environmental, social and governance factors. Evolving out of the ethical, socially responsible investment waves of the recent past, sustainable investing involves the conscious integration of extra-financial factors into strategies for generating long-term financial returns. In essence, sustainable investing is fast becoming the smart way of generating long-term returns. With conventional investors now scrambling to factor in issues such as climate change, business ethics and human rights, this book captures a turning point in the evolution of global finance. Bringing together leading practitioners of sustainable investing from across the globe, this book will chart how this agenda has evolved, what impact it has today, and what prospects are emerging for the years ahead.
SC04-357 Tax Guide for Investment Advisors.
  Mott, John R./ 9780779813520
 
 
SC04-341 Financial Management for Local Government, 4-Vols/Set.
  Spearman, Kay/ 9781844074020
 
  This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition. Concepts of good governance, transparency and accountability are woven into the text of every chapter, and the needs and potential obstacles to greater decentralization and democracy are highlighted. Each volume is self-contained with its own Trainer’s Guide, exercises and web resources. Chapters are divided into basic and advanced concepts and the detailed relationship of each topic to the others covered in the series is explained.
SC04-339 Tolerability of Risk, The: A New Framework for Risk Management.
  Bouder, Frederic/ 9781844073986
 
  There is increasing dissatisfaction with how risk is regulated. This is leading to vivid debates about the use of ‘risk assessment’ and ‘precaution’ and, as a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas. The book provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of ‘Tolerability of Risk’ (TOR) and its concrete regulatory applications. In the UK, Tolerability of Risk has been developed into a sophisticated framework particularly within the health and safety sectors (HSE 1988, HSE 2001). It is expected to guide decision makers when applying their legal obligation of keeping risks as low as practically reasonable.
SC04-339 Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind.
  Siegrist, Michael/ 9781844074242
 
  Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world’s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies (on topics such as mobile phone technology, well-known food accidents and crises, wetland management, smallpox vaccination, cooperative risk management of US forests and the disposal of the Brent Spar oil drilling platform), this is the most thorough and up-to-date examination of trust in all its forms and complexities. The book integrates diverse research traditions and provides new insights into the phenomenon of trust. Factors that lead to the establishment and erosion of trust are identified. Insightful analyses are provided for researchers and students of environmental and social science and professionals engaged in risk management and communication in both public and private sectors.
Secured Finance Transactions: Key Assets and Emergin Markets
  Ali, Paul U./ 9781905783106
 
 
WC046 創富與個人理財
  麥萃才/ 9789627707523
 
 
VD05-40 Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Simulation.
  Henderson, Shane/ 9780444514288
 
  This Handbook is a collection of chapters on key issues in the design and analysis of computer simulation experiments on models of stochastic systems. The chapters are tightly focused and written by experts in each area. For the purpose of this volume ?simulation? refers to the analysis of stochastic processes through the generation of sample paths (realization) of the processes. Attention focuses on design and analysis issues and the goal of this volume is to survey the concepts, principles, tools and techniques that underlie the theory and practice of stochastic simulation design and analysis. Emphasis is placed on the ideas and methods that are likely to remain an intrinsic part of the foundation of the field for the foreseeable future. The chapters provide up-to-date references for both the simulation researcher and the advanced simulation user, but they do not constitute an introductory level ?how to? guide. Computer scientists, financial analysts, industrial engineers, management scientists, operations researchers and many other professionals use stochastic simulation to design, understand and improve communications, financial, manufacturing, logistics, and service systems. A theme that runs throughout these diverse applications is the need to evaluate system performance in the face of uncertainty, including uncertainty in user load, interest rates, demand for product, availability of goods, cost of transportation and equipment failures.
VC14-31 Handbook of Asset and Liability Management.
  Zenios, S.A./ 9780444508751
 
  The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in the field of finance. Each individual volume in the series presents an accurate self-contained survey of a sub-field of finance, suitable for use by finance and economics professors and lecturers, professional researchers, graduate students and as a teaching supplement. It is fitting that the series Handbooks in Finance devotes a handbook to Asset and Liability Management. Volume 1 contains chapters that lay the theoretical foundations and develop the methodologies essential for the development of asset and liability management models.
VC01-63 Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics,Volume 1: Econometric Theory.
  Mills, Terence C./ 9781403941558
 
  Palgrave Handbook of Econometrics comprises 'landmark' essays by the world's leading scholars and provides authoritative and definitive guidance in key areas of econometrics. With definitive contributions on the subject, the Handbook is an essential source of reference for professional econometricians, economists, researchers and students. Volume I covers developments in theoretical econometrics, including essays on the methodology and history of econometrics, developments in time-series and cross-section econometrics, modelling with integrated variables, Bayesian econometrics, simulation methods and a selection of special topics.
SC04-331 Project Investment Valuation Using Real Options: A Practitioner's Guide to Strategic Investment.
  Kodukula, Prasad/ 9781932159431
 
  Business leaders are frequently faced with investment decisions on new and ongoing projects. The challenge lies in deciding what projects to choose, expand, contract, defer, or abandon, and which method of valuation to use is the key tool in the process. This title presents a step-by-step, practical approach to real options valuation to make it easily understandable by practitioners as well as senior management. This systematic approach to project valuation helps you minimize upfront investment risks, exercise flexibility in decision making, and maximize the returns. Whereas the traditional decision tools such as discounted cash flow/net present value (DCF/NPV) analysis assume a “fixed” path ahead, real options analysis offers more flexible strategies. Considered one of the greatest innovations of modern finance, the real options approach is based on Nobel-prize winning work by three MIT economists, Fischer Black, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes.
VC01-44-8 Economic Policy and Public Finance, 6-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415379724
 
 
VC01-44-10 Finance, Money and Banking, 23-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415378505
 
 
SC04-325 International Investment for Sustainable Development: Balancing Rights and Rewards.
  Zarsky, Lyuba/ 9781844070398
 
 
Stamp Duties for Business and Property.
  O'Connor, Michael/ 9781858004235
 
 
VA05-119 Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America.
  Herrick, John/ 9780761925842
 
  unique reference book that will provide users with basic information about the history of social welfare in North America, including Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Since many themes and issues are similar in the three nations, entries will provide comparative information about common as well as distinctive concerns and developments. Significant events, influential persons, legislation, social problems, and societal responses are described in detail. Editors include specialists in the social welfare history of each nation, and they have collaborated with scholars from a variety of academic disciplines to prepare entries of varying length addressing these issues. Included in each entry are suggestions for further reading that will guide readers to the rich resources available for learning about the history of North American social welfare. The encyclopedia also provides cross-references for important topics. This volume will be a unique reference tool for students at all levels, for teachers, and for libraries serving anyone with an interest in the history of North American social welfare.
SC04-313 Federal Tax Handbook, 2005 Edition.
  / 9780781103244
 
  The RIA Federal Tax Handbook is the most authoritative, accurate and easy-to-use paperback reference for day-to-day tax questions on 2004 and 2005 taxes. The 2005 edition of this essential tool is the most extensive ever - containing answers to hundreds of tax questions plus guidance on the latest tax topics and changes. Portable and easy-to-read, it provides comprehensive answers to questions on individual and corporate taxation, pension plans, IRAs, Roth IRAs, employee benefits, deductions, estate and gift taxes, and much more. With the Handbook on your shelf, answers to your tax questions are at your fingertips.
PC01-32 Monetary History of Gold, The: A Collection of Historical Documents, 1660-1999.
  Duckenfield, Mark/ 9781851967858
 
  This collection consists of approximately 150 documents relating to the monetary role of gold from the seventeenth century to the present. It primarily uses government reports, legislation, laws and the texts of political speeches to map the rise of gold-backed currencies in the major west Europeans powers, the establishment of the international gold standard, and gold's official place in the post-gold standard monetary world. The Monetary History of Gold will be a useful reference for economic historians and for others studying the international monetary system and international political economy. Within these fields it will be an essential aid to those studying the history of the traditional gold standard. It will also be of interest to those studying the development of gold-backed currencies in Britain and the United States. Anyone interested in gold's role as a monetary asset would find this a comprehensive collection of important documents.
VC01-30-11 K. Monetary Economics, 4-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415313919
 
  Bresciani-Turroni The Economics of Inflation, 1937 Charlesworth The Economics of Repressed Inflation, 1956 Soddy Role of Money, 1934 Wilson Monetary Policy and the Development of Money Markets, 1966
VC01-20 David Ricardo: Critical Responses, 4-Vols/Set.
  Peach, Terry/ 9780415181792
 
  This four-volume set in the Critical Responses series brings together for the first time 19th Century responses to, and appreciations of, the work of David Ricardo. The collection covers the period from 1817, the year of publication of Ricardo's major work, The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, to 1848, and represents the first and probably the liveliest period of Ricardo-criticism. The publication of John Stuart Mill's own Principles in 1848 marks an end to this period with the first great 'rehabilitation' of Ricardo following decades of searching criticism.
Corporate Governance and Finance.
  Hirschey, Mark/ 9780762310272
 
  Papers in this volume focus upon corporate governance, broadly defined as the system of controls that helps the corporation effectively manage, administer and direct economic resources. Questions of what and how to produce become equally important as organizations strive to better serve demanding customers. As a result, the design and control of effective organizations structure has been described by the vertical and horizontal relationships among the firm, its customers and suppliers. More recently, researchers have come to understand that the efficiency of firms depends upon the ability of participants to find effective means to minimize the transaction costs of coordinating productive activity. As financial economists have learned, resource allocation will be efficient so long as transaction costs remain low and property rights can be freely assigned and exchanged. An important problem that must be addressed is the so-called agency problem resulting from the natural conflict between owners and managers. Agency costs are the explicit and implicit transaction costs necessary to overcome the natural divergence of interest between agent managers and principal stockholders. The value-maximizing organization design minimizes unproductive conflict within the firm. Papers in this volume show how corporate control mechanisms inside and outside the firm have evolved to allocate decision authority to that person or organization best able to perform a given task.
VC01-28 Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, 4-Vols/Set.
  James, Simon/ 9780415188005
 
  Taxation, of one sort or another, can be traced back to the beginnings of civilization, indeed, it might be argued that taxes are the price of civilization. This set reprints classic articles on taxation such as Adam Smith's Canons of Taxation, alongside more contemporary articles on modern developments. Taking into account the strong revisionist trend emergent in the study of economic issues, a new introduction by the editor puts the collected articles into context. Volume I Part I: The Development of Taxation Part II: Tax Theory and Principles The Nature of a 'Good' Tax Efficiency Equity Optimal Taxation Part III: Taxation and the Political Process Central Government Fiscal Federalism Volume II Part IV: Tax Policy and Reform Tax Harmonisation Tax and the Environment Tax Hypothecation or 'Earmarking' Part V: Legal and Accounting Aspects Tax Simplification Taxpayer Rights Tax and Judicial Review Accounting Aspects Volume III Part VI: Tax Administration Compliance Evasion E-Commerce Volume IV Part VII: Types of Taxation Income Taxation Consumption Taxes Corporate and Business Taxation Taxation of Land Poll Taxes Part VIII: Taxation as an Academic Subject Tax Research Tax Education
PC01-8 Foundations of Price Theory, The. 6-Vols/Set.
  Bridel, Pascal/ 9781851967223
 
  Price theory has always been at the heart of economic theory. For the past two and a half centuries, economic theorists have been trying in many different ways to understand and explain the determination of relative prices between goods and services. Concentrating exclusively on the primary literature, this multi-volume set brings together for the first time the most significant texts of the many and and often conflicting intellectual endeavours to solve this most difficult of all economic issues. Though fully aware of the sometimes fundamental theoretical differences between the various approaches, this choice of texts suggests an interpretative framework linked to the common method used by successive schools of thought. For the past 250 years, economists have been working with one version or another of the so-called gravity theory: long-run, natural or equilibrium reasoning investigates the logical static determination of relative prices by theorists attempting to understand the fundamentals of market (or non-market) economies; short-run, market or disequilibrium reasoning scrutinises the formation of relative prices, that is, the dynamic process (including, possibly, institutional set-ups) necessary to bring about these natural/equilibrium prices. From Aristotle's theory of exchange down to the Arrow-Debreu-MacKenzie model of the 1950s, these volumes provide modern economists as well as historians of economic thought with classic texts in the doctrine of 'just price', the land theory of value, the cost-of-production theory of value, the labour theory of value and, finally, the marginalist revolution at the root of most modern developments in partial and general equilibrium analyses.
PC01-6 History of Gold and Silver, The. 3-Vols/Set.
  White, Lawrence H./ 9781851965175
 
  Gold and silver have been the cornerstones of the world’s economies and banking systems since they were first developed, and the metals have lost little of their allure even today. This fully reset edition collects material debating the setting up of Gold, Silver and Bimetal standards and the various systems devised and implemented. The debate over the setting up of the gold and silver standards was incessant and much of it centred around which system was best. The methods different governments used were also the subject of much debate. This three-volume edition brings together material on the various debates and will show the profound influence these metals have had on economic thinking. The three volumes are arranged both chronologically and thematically. The first covers the problems of metallic coinage (clipping, debasement, Gresham's Law) and international bullion flows. The second covers the classical theory of the supply-and-demand determination of the value and quantity of metallic money, with particular application to the Californian and Australian gold discoveries of the mid-nineteenth century. The third volume covers bimetallism and the relationship of the gold standard to banking and financial markets.
PC01-5 Great Bubbles, 3-Vols/Set.
  Emmett, Ross B./ 9781851965250
 
  Periods of euphoria followed by sudden crashes are a familiar phenomenon and examples of these provide for some of the most fascinating literature in the history of economics. Over time, such events have tended to become known as 'bubbles'. A bubble may be defined loosely as a sharp rise in price of an asset or a range of assets in a continuous process, with the initial rise generating expectations of further rises and attracting new buyers - generally speculators interested in profits from trading rather than in its use or earning capacity. The rise is then followed by a reversal of expectations and a sharp decline in price, often resulting in severe financial crisis - in short, the bubble bursts. This edition brings together some of the most important writings on such phenomena - with works centring upon some of the most prominent bubbles - the Tulip Mania of 1636, the Mississippi Bubble of 1720 and the South Sea Bubble of the same period. Authors whose work is describing these events included in this edition are John Law, Daniel Defoe, Charles Mackay, Joseph Schumpeter, Adam Anderson and Andrew McFarlande Davis.
PC01-7 History of Taxation, The. 8-Vols/Set.
  O'Brien, D. P./ 9781851965168
 
  The eight volumes of The History of Taxation are designed to cover the literature of taxation from the late seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Taxation has been of abiding interest to economists, but the intellectual problems concerning it, as well as its immediate impact have engaged a much wider public, and contributions from a very wide range of individuals and professionals have enriched the literature. The the set illustrates the richness and profusion of the literature. Beginning with Sir William Petty, the authors include not only the great and familiar names – Steuart, Hume, Smith, Ricardo, Say, Mill, McCulloch, Seligman, Edgeworth, Wicksell – but a host of other and much less well known figures. Some of these, like Hamilton, Beeke, Buchanan, Farr, Hubbard, and Cohen Stuart, are well known to specialists; but others are almost unknown to all but a very few scholars. The literature, itself the product of the historical experiences of the writers, focuses on a number of themes, reflecting in turn the problems which revenue raisers have encountered over two centuries. These include revenue shortage and the appropriate tax base; the national debt and the Sinking Fund; the introduction of income tax; the problems created by the abolition of the income tax in 1816 and the effects of its reintroduction from 1842, and the issues which subsequently arose, especially differentiation between the various sources of income, and progression. The literature of taxation is among the most significant of all economic literature, and these volumes are designed to bring out that significance and to illustrate the perennial problems around which the discussions have revolved. Overall, this edition constitutes a collection of the key texts in the evolution of an established body of literature on public finance topics, drawing chiefly on eighteenth and nineteenth-century sources.
PC01-10 Economic Writings of William Thornton, The. 5-Vols/Set.
  Mirowski, Philip/ 9781851963881
 
  The writings of William Thornton (1813-1880) are central to the history of the laws of supply and demand and seminal in understanding the rise of neoclassical economics. Until recently, William Thornton has been cast by historians as a minor player in John Stuart Mill’s recantation of the wages fund doctrine. This significant event is discussed by Schumpeter in A History of Economic Analysis and Samuel Hollander in The Economics of John Stuart Mill. Indeed, Thornton was a close personal friend of and associate of Mill’s for many years, However, it would be wrong to suggest that Thornton can only be seen as a lesser Mill, backing up the latter’s philosophies and with no coherent influence of his own. From 1847 until his death in 1880, Thornton was an active member of the Political Economy Club. This was a monthly conclave of individual scholars and and business people founded by David Ricardo and sustained by his followers to address the major issues affecting the new science of political economy. Modern economists looking for precursors in historical texts will find interesting material. One recent example is T Negishi’s invocation of Thornton as a pioneer of disequilibrium theory. Others include experimental economists studying the importance of different market institutions on price determination, scholars concerned with the problem of path dependence as well as some Austrian economists interested in Thornton’s ideas about competition. This new edition shows that in fact Thornton played a greater part in the history of economic thought. His first edition of On Labour was a blistering critique of the laws of supply and demand and served to mobilise the major players in the burgeoning neo-classical movement - Jevons, Edgeworth, Jenkin and Marshall - to reply with mathematical responses to the debate.
 

 

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