Two Essays in Finance

Two Essays in Finance
Author: Ward R. Kangas
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1997-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1581120044

Based on data on publicly traded insurance firms, the first essay examines questions about the effect of large catastrophic events on insurance firms. Rather than looking at a single event, thirty catastrophic events were aggregated into quintiles and the cumulative abnormal returns around these events were found to be significantly positive over a 25 day trading window. There is no significant evidence that post-catastrophic stock returns are correlated to the magnitude of the catastrophe. The second essay analyzes the effect of a large land grant university, the University of Illinois, on the State Treasury of Illinois. If the State Treasury were acting as its own agent trying to maximize revenues, would it choose higher education as an investment versus other alternative investments. While it is true the State makes large expenditures for the operations of the University, it is also true that individuals receiving degrees on average receive higher incomes. Taxes or higher incomes offset the cost of operating the University. The study is broken out by the level of student: undergraduate, masters, doctorate, medical professional, and by function of the University. It was found that all levels of education have a positive return not only for the individual, but also for the State Treasury. This is in excess of any non-pecuniary benefits to the State of having a better educated population, or the local taxation effects on the county or city where the campus is located. These returns are found to be higher than other types of investments.

Money, Capital, & Fluctuations

Money, Capital, & Fluctuations
Author: F.A. Hayek
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226321274

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 1. THE MONETARY POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE RECOVERY FROM THE 1920 CRISIS (1925) 2. SOME REMARKS ON THE PROBLEM OF IMPUTATION (1926) 3. ON THE PROBLEM OF THE THEORY OF INTEREST (1927) 4. INTERTEMPORAL PRICE EQUILIBRIUM AND MOVEMENTS IN THE VALUE OF MONEY (1928) 5. THE FATE OF THE GOLD STANDARD (1932) 6. CAPITAL CONSUMPTION (1932) 7. ON 'NEUTRAL MONEY' (1933) 8. TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND EXCESS CAPACITY (1936) Two reviews MARGINAL UTILITY AND ECONOMIC CALCULATION (1925) THE EXCHANGE VALUE OF MONEY (1929) NAME INDEX

Macroeconomics, Finance and Money

Macroeconomics, Finance and Money
Author: Giuseppe Fontana
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230285589

This volume focuses on current issues of debate in the area of modern macroeconomics and money, written from (a broadly interpreted) post Keynesian perspective. The papers connect with Philip Arestis' contributions to macroeconomics and money, and pay tribute to his distinguished career.

Why the World Economy Needs a Financial Crash and Other Critical Essays on Finance and Financial Economics

Why the World Economy Needs a Financial Crash and Other Critical Essays on Finance and Financial Economics
Author: Jan Toporowski
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2010-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857286544

The essays in this volume explain the key structural features of financial inflation that give rise to financial crisis. These features include excessive reliance on finance to maintain economic activity through rising asset prices. Reliance on asset inflation induces a preoccupation with property values and a new social divide between the asset-rich and the asset-poor that undermines the culture of the welfare state. When debt can no longer be supported by cash flow from asset markets, excess debt plunges economies into economic depression.

The Spectator

The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1352
Release: 1879
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions

The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions
Author: Martin Shubik
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262693110

This first volume in a three-volume exposition of Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics" explores a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. This is the first volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy. Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies. Volume 3 will consider the specific role of financial institutions and government, and formulate the economic financial control problem linking micro- and macroeconomics.

Wiley CMA Learning System Exam Review 2013, Financial Planning, Performance and Control, Online Intensive Review + Test Bank

Wiley CMA Learning System Exam Review 2013, Financial Planning, Performance and Control, Online Intensive Review + Test Bank
Author: IMA
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1118582950

This bundled product suite includes the Wiley CMA Learning System Part 1: Financial Planning, Performance and Control which covers the topics of Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting, Performance Management, Cost Management, Internal Controls, and Professional Ethics. In addition, it includes Part 1 of the self-study online intensive review as well as access to the test bank with over 900 questions.