Finance Research: Popular Reading

This book throws light on the application of AI/ML techniques in the financial capital markets. It discusses the challenges posed by the AI/ML techniques as these are prone to "black box" syndrome. The complexity of understanding the underlying dynamics for results generated by these methods is one of the major concerns which is highlighted in this book. Topics covered include credit and risk analysis, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, asset pricing models, tests of market efficiency and forecasting.

This book provides readers with a systematic approach to quantitative investments and bridges the gap between theory and practice, equipping students to more seamlessly enter the world of industry. A successful quantitative investment strategy requires an individual to possess a deep understanding of the financial markets, investment theories and econometric modelings, as well as the ability to program and analyze real-world data sets. Uses statistical models in R.

This workbook contains hands-on quantitative analysis practice based on real-world scenarios

This publication focuses on analysis of credit risk, derivatives, equity investments, portfolio management, quantitative methods, and risk management. In terms of application, this book can be used as an important tool to explain how to generate data rows of expected exposure to counterparty credit risk. The book also directs the reader on how to visualize, in real time, the results of this data, generated with a java tool.

Bringing to bear more than thirty years of experience working closely with farmers, agricultural researchers and food system activists, he explores the eclipse of food ethics during the rise of nutritional science, and examines the reasons for its sudden re-emergence in the era of diet-based disease. Thompson discusses social injustice in the food systems of developed economies and shows how we have missed the key insights for understanding food ethics in the developing world.

Microfinance began with the noble aim of alleviating poverty through the extension of small loans to poor borrowers, and has grown to now serve approximately 200,000,000 people - the majority of whom are female. In a thorough-going ethical assessment of the industry, this book examines the central microfinance model and whether or not it is effective, the extent to which the practice creates the conditions for exploitation and coercion to occur, and whether the distribution of the benefits and burdens of microfinance is likely to be an ethical one.

The key to advancing gender equality? Men. In this important book, they show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work and this book explains why, and how they can do it.

Recent advances in digital technology and big data have allowed FinTecleh nding to emerge as a potentially promising solution to reduce the cost of credit and increase financial inclusion. However, machine learning (ML) methods that lie at the heart of FinTech credit have remained largely a black box for the nontechnical audience. This publication examines the central role of data in ML-based analysis, and argues that data relevance should be ensured, especially in situations when a deep structural change occurs, when borrowers could counterfeit certain indicators, and when agency problems arising from information asymmetry could not be resolved, as well as to avoid digital financial exclusion and redlining, variables that trigger discrimination should not be used to assess credit rating.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues for guaranteed basic income. This book, grounded in Hughes's personal experience, is intended to start a frank conversation about how we earn in modern America, how we can combat income inequality, and ultimately, how we can give everyone a fair shot.

In this updated edition of a classic text, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on his central banking experience to introduce new chapters on cryptocurrency and the United States as the 21st Century global lender of last resort. He also updates the book's coverage of the recent property bubble in China, as well as providing new perspectives on the US housing bubble of 2003-2006, and the Japanese bubble of the late 1980s. And he gives new attention to the social psychology that leads people to take the risk of investing in Ponzi schemes and asset price bubbles.

The past financial crises, including the Great Depression, the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, have showed us that the global financial system has problems and that a paradigm change and mindset shift to provide a better world to society is essential. This book describes a new sustainable approach to replace the current system and will be of interest to academics, policymakers, and professionals working with financial markets, financial economics, sustainability, and impact finance.

Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, the authors take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s.

This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends, and demonstrates how these demographic trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from globalisation. Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others.

Projects often fail not because of the vision, but in the articulation of that vision. With the help of this book, you'll learn how to ensure you get the results you desire as a leader and communicator including: Speak with conviction and write with impact Tailor your communication to any goal, setting, or audience. Scale your leadership through effective coaching .

The rules in business are more flexible than ever before. That means it's actually harder to know what's appropriate at any time. Fortunately the keys to conducting yourself at internal or client meetings, at any given time, are still understanding, kindness and courtesy. Make sure you know how to represent yourself and your company in any situation.

This book, inspired partly by journalism's failure to raise early warning flags in the run up to financial crises and by the rise of (economic) populism in recent years, puts forward a framework for economic journalism. It argues that that independent quality economic journalism is essential to the functioning of both the market and democracy but is under threat, and explores questions raised by the decline of media trust: what is the value of economic journalism? And how can journalists change their practices to counter this decline? The book takes a global approach with one chapter focusing on European integration and concludes with an outlook on the future of economic journalism, and the financing of journalism more widely.

Written by leading players in a burgeoning technology revolution, this book is about the merger of finance and technology, and covers its various components and how they impact each discipline within the financial services industry

The New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture.

NYT bestselling author and well-known podcaster (The Tim Ferriss Show) crystallized his interviews with people who are living examples of striving for excellence in many areas of their professional and personal lives (business people, athletes, scientists, politicians, creatives). Ferriss probes into routines, philosophies, and personal experience and reports on ideas to aid self-development, financial and career success. We also have a print edition of this publication.

The author, a leading sociologist of money, examines the nature of money, in order to help the reader gain new perspective after the global financial crisis and with the emergence of new forms and systems of it, such as mobile money and Bitcoin. He covers the utopian aspects of money and the ways in which its transformation could in turn transform society, politics, and economics.

This NYT & WSJ Bestseller was ased on an in-depth analysis of over 2,600 leaders drawn and overturn the myths about what it takes to get to the top and succeed. Their groundbreaking research was the featured cover story in the May-June 2017 issue of HBR. This book provides practical advice from these findings, and is for everyone who aspires to rise up through the organization and achieve their full potential.

Finance is entering a new era, driven by data and AI. This playlist is Yves Hilpisch’s picks highlight these areas, along with other technologies revolutionizing the industry. They include videos and e-book chapters.

This playlist highlights ten items that are classics on valuation techniques.

This book covers leading organizations and motivating all who work there through optimism, enthusiasm and positive energy. It looks at drivers of short- and long-term success and covers how to have a positive organizational culture.

Samuel B. Bacharach specifies why organizations fall into patterns of inertia and details the critical pragmatic leadership skills leaders need to regain organizational momentum. He employs case illustrations to identify clunky tendencies and inertia within organizations across a wide range of business sectors including technology, finance, banking, home entertainment, and retail. Illustrations are drawn from organizations such as Amazon, Apple, Borders, Merrill Lynch, Nintendo, Starbucks, and Unilever, among many others.

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors, and explores how these differences impact today's leadership and management practices.

Cathrin Huber investigates the reputation of multinational corporations and provides novel insights and important implications for researchers and managers based on theoretical considerations and empirical analyses.