Contributions to Finance and Accounting

This book aims to provide first-hand information for readers concerned with green finance and sustainable development by summarizing the unique features, policies and practical innovations of green finance development in China and hoping to …

Banks play a crucial role in the global economy, yet they are vulnerable to failures that can have catastrophic effects. Key questions arise: What causes bank failures? What drives these failures? Can we avoid a banking crisis? What happens when a …

Finance is essential to the real estate project development sector's success. However, there is still an enormous gap in the real estate sector. What seems to be required is a model that could guide managers in securing real estate project …

This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research findings on the digital transformation of financial services. Digitalization has fundamentally changed financial services and has a tendency to reshape the landscape of the financial …

In recent decades, the financial markets have experienced various crises, shocks and disruptive events, driving high levels of volatility. This volatility is too strong to be fully justified simply by changes in fundamentals. This volume discusses …

Das englischsprachige Buch bietet innovative Lösungen für grundlegende Bewertungsprobleme im Finanzwesen, wie etwa bei Anleihen und Aktien, Schulden und Gesamtvermögen, oder zur Bestimmung der optimalen Kapitalstruktur. Zum Einsatz kommen dabei geschlossene Modellen, deren Formen und Variablen durch strenge und objektive Logikprozesse bestimmt und nicht subjektiv gewählt werden. Die genannten Basislösungen lassen sich einfach an verschiedene Anwendungsszenarien anpassen.

This book examines public debt hoarding within the Euro Area, which is one of the most complicated challenges regarding modern fiscal policy-making. The author offers an up-to-date analysis of the fiscal situations of Italy, Spain, Portugal, and …

Under the pressure of climate and social changes, agriculture is called to play a fundamental role in the world food challenge of the next few decades. A severe reduction of arable land and water scarcity combined with a growing food demand …

This book offers a comprehensive review of crowdfunding at Higher Education Institutions, both in theory and practice. In addition, it sheds new light on the emerging concept of crowdfunding at Higher Education Institutions and presents an …

This book on entrepreneurial fundraising combines rigor and applicability to train current and prospective entrepreneurs in the financing processes. Through its diverse set of chapters, it reviews the latest financing tools and dynamics, the most …

This book addresses the most widespread forms of financial crime today, namely corporate fraud, corruption, tax fraud, the shadow economy, informal entrepreneurship, money laundering, international informal capital flows, cybercrimes, and …

Financial risk management for institutional investors has recently grown in scope to include long-term sustainability considerations and climate change risk concerns. This book shows how a national central bank in the Eurosystem has adapted its …

This book sheds new light on the most important contemporary and emerging startup valuation topics. Drawing on the first-hand professional experience of practitioners, professionals, and startup experts from various fields of finance, combined …

This book starts from the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators in

China, and defines the concept and connotation of FinTech and SupTech in the form of topics,

analyses the main problems in the development …

Financial management in family businesses is a special challenge. CFOs in particular are often at the crossroads of various interests and roles. However, not least the public reticence of family businesses has so far ensured that there is a lack …

This book studies and discusses the current situation and development trend of technology application in the private equity industry of China. This book provides answers to the following questions that are critical concerns of the industry. For …

Climate change, COVID-19, Ukraine: it seems that crises are here to stay, which poses major challenges for the financial management of companies. This book addresses these issues, and present concrete approaches to resolving them.

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This edited volume seeks to identify the sustainability issues currently affecting the energy business and finance. For this purpose, a broad range of perspectives on sustainability issues in the energy business and finance are taken into …

Fintech Dictionary - What is a blockchain framework? What is crowdlending or an ICO? The Fintech Dictionary helps readers in clarifying key terms that have emerged in the vivid field of financial technology (fintech). It links keywords from …

The original theory of capital cost and capital structure put forward by Nobel Prize Winners Modigliani and Miller has since been modified by many authors, and this book discusses some of them. The book’s authors have created general theory of …