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Books – Finance + Banking

2023 | Book

Research Papers in Statistical Inference for Time Series and Related Models

Essays in Honor of Masanobu Taniguchi

This book compiles theoretical developments on statistical inference for time series and related models in honor of Masanobu Taniguchi's 70th birthday. It covers models such as long-range dependence models, nonlinear conditionally heteroscedastic …

Editors:
Yan Liu, Junichi Hirukawa, Yoshihide Kakizawa

2023 | Book

Statistical Inference Based on Kernel Distribution Function Estimators

This book presents a study of statistical inferences based on the kernel-type estimators of distribution functions. The inferences involve matters such as quantile estimation, nonparametric tests, and mean residual life expectation, to name just …

Authors:
Rizky Reza Fauzi, Yoshihiko Maesono

2023 | Book

Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development Fundamentals

India’s Great Challenge

This book discusses the extent and nature of COVID-19 pandemic in India and its effect on the society and economy. The suggested management practices discussed here are also not stereotype. At the same time, it highlights deficiency in development …

Editors:
Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Arpita Ghose

2023 | Book

Quantitative User Experience Research

Informing Product Decisions by Understanding Users at Scale

This book is your definitive guide to the rapidly growing role of Quantitative User Experience (Quant UX) Research in product development. The book provides an overview of the skills you need on the job, presents hands-on projects with reusable …

Authors:
Chris Chapman, Kerry Rodden

2023 | Book

Applications of Computational Intelligence in Management & Mathematics

8th ICCM, Nirjuli, AP, India, July 29–30, 2022

Computational intelligence consists of those techniques that imitate the human brain and nature to adopt the decision-making approach. This book contains selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Computers, Management and …

Editors:
Madhusudhan Mishra, Nishtha Kesswani, Imene Brigui

2023 | Book

Managerial Discretion in Imperfect Markets

This book deals with behavioral responses of management of firms that make several decisions with respect to production, marketing, finance, organization of activities within divisions, and interrelations between divisions (including synergies …

Author:
T. V. S. Ramamohan Rao

2023 | Book

Economics for Lovers of Literature

This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens. Drawing on writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell, each chapter is framed around a quote from …

Author:
Geraint Johnes

2023 | Book

Introduction to Probability and Random Variables

This textbook provides a straightforward, clear explanation of probability and random variables for communications engineering students. The author focuses on the most essential subjects of probability and random variables, eliminating unnecessary …

Author:
Orhan Gazi

2023 | Book

Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19

Medical Perspectives and Socioeconomic Dynamics

This edited volume discusses the biopolitics and shock economy of COVID-19, emphasizing medical perspectives and the socioeconomic dynamics of the pandemic and the ensuing institutional responses. Written by an international, multidisciplinary …

Editors:
Nezameddin Faghih, Amir Forouharfar

2023 | Book

Business Innovation for the Post-pandemic Era in Vietnam

This book documents the recent post-pandemic era business innovation research in Vietnam bringing together selected works from the 2022 ‘International Conference on Business Innovation: Business Innovation in a Post-pandemic World’ held at RMIT …

Editors:
Nguyen Hoang Thuan, Hung Nguyen, Hiep Cong Pham, Alrence Halibas

2023 | Book

Interconnections in the Greek Economy

Between Macro- and Microeconomics

This book examines the economic interconnections of the Greek economy at a macro and micro level, allowing it to explore both the economic relations between the various sectors and the interconnections of various companies and overlaps in …

Editor:
Panagiotis E. Petrakis

2023 | Book

Tax Avoidance and Capital Structure

Empirical Evidence on Debt Covenants

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the implications of tax avoidance for a firm’s capital structure, highlighting the key role played by free cash flow and agency conflicts. First, the book provides an outline of the theories and …

Author:
Alessandro Gabrielli

2023 | Book

Principal Component Analysis and Randomness Test for Big Data Analysis

Practical Applications of RMT-Based Technique

This book presents the novel approach of analyzing large-sized rectangular-shaped numerical data (so-called big data). The essence of this approach is to grasp the "meaning" of the data instantly, without getting into the details of individual …

Authors:
Mieko Tanaka-Yamawaki, Yumihiko Ikura

2023 | Book

Decentralized Insurance

Technical Foundation of Business Models

The book offers an introduction to the technical foundation of decentralized insurance models, for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and practitioners. The book is self-contained and anyone with a basic knowledge of probability …

Author:
Runhuan Feng

2023 | Book

Collected Works of Domenico Mario Nuti, Volume I

Socialist Economic Systems and Transition

This book, the first of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics. Bringing together works from across Nuti’s career, his distinctive intellectual framework is …

Editors:
Saul Estrin, Milica Uvalic

2023 | Book

Millennial Philanthropy

Next Generation Fund Development for Professionals and Nonprofits

Nearly 75 million people make up the Millennial generation in the United States, and yet, for many nonprofits, this generation remains an untapped resource. The most significant transfer of wealth known as the Great Transfer of Wealth is shifting …

Author:
Holly Hull Miori

2023 | Book

Financial Interdependence, Digitalization and Technological Rivalries

Perspectives on Future Cooperation and Integration in Sino-American Financial Systems

This Palgrave Pivot investigates how the Chinese and United States financial systems are becoming increasingly interdependent, in spite of a simultaneous technological rivalry and ‘decoupling’ between the two nations.

The book offers a comparative …

Authors:
René W.H. van der Linden, Piotr Łasak

2023 | Book

Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference

IHIC 2022

This book will constitute the proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC 2022). This volume focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning approach with their automated intelligent cognitive …

Editors:
Sarika Jain, Sven Groppe, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya

2023 | Book

Concentration and Gaussian Approximation for Randomized Sums

This book describes extensions of Sudakov's classical result on the concentration of measure phenomenon for weighted sums of dependent random variables. The central topics of the book are weighted sums of random variables and the concentration of …

Authors:
Sergey Bobkov, Gennadiy Chistyakov, Friedrich Götze

2023 | Book

The Brusov–Filatova–Orekhova Theory of Capital Structure

Applications in Corporate Finance, Investments, Taxation and Ratings

The book introduces and discusses the modern theory of the cost of capital and capital structure - the BFO theory (Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova theory), which is valid for companies of arbitrary age and which replaced the theory of Nobel laureates …

Authors:
Peter Brusov, Tatiana Filatova, Natali Orekhova