New Directions in Finance

New Directions in Finance
Author: Dilip K. Ghosh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136156186

The stock market crash of 1987 had a tumultuous effect on the world of finance. The reverberations of this collapse are still being felt and a number of issues and problems are still unresolved. New Directions in Finance discusses these issues and looks to future developments in international finance. The book contains sections which look at capital structure; the cost of capital and agency issues; mergers and takeovers, and options, futures and forward trading. Including a contribution by Nobel Laureate Merton Miller, New Directions in Finance presents a state of the art guide to international finance.

New Directions in Financial Services Regulation

New Directions in Financial Services Regulation
Author: Roger B. Porter
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2011-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262295040

Prominent policy makers, practitioners, and scholars discuss regulatory reform in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008. The financial crisis of 2008 raised crucial questions regarding the effectiveness of the way the United States regulates financial markets. What caused the crisis? What regulatory changes are most needed and desirable? What regulatory structure will best implement the desired changes? This volume addresses those questions with contributions from an ideologically diverse group of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners, including Paul Volcker, John Taylor, Richard Posner, and R. Glenn Hubbard. New Directions in Financial Services Regulation grows out of a conference hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in October 2009, and the book reflects the dynamic give-and-take of the event. Each part of the book includes not only major papers and presentations but also a summary of the subsequent discussion. The book achieves a balance of academic and practitioner perspectives, with leaders of financial firms and regulatory bodies offering insights based on their experiences in the financial crisis of the year before.

New Directions in Economic Methodology

New Directions in Economic Methodology
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1994-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134864396

In recent years there has been a flowering of work on economic methodology. However there is no longer any consensus about which direction this should take or, indeed, even what the role and content of economic methodology should be. This book reflects this diversity. Its contributors are responsible for the major developments in this field and tog

New Directions in Real Estate Finance and Investment

New Directions in Real Estate Finance and Investment
Author: Piet Eichholtz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475759886

Research in real estate finance and economics has developed in an exciting way in the past twenty-five years or so. The resulting theoretical and empirical findings are shining a new light on some of the classic mysteries of the real estate markets. It is good to see that a growing proportion of this research output is concerned with contemporary problems and issues regarding the European and Far Eastern property markets. To stimulate a creative exchange of new ideas and a debate of the latest research findings regarding the global property markets, the Maastricht-Cambridge Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium was established. This initiative aims at bringing together a number of leading researchers in the field for a short, intensive conference. The 2000 Symposium, which was hosted by Maastricht University in the Netherlands in June of that year, is the first in an annual series of such conferences, which will alternate between Maastricht University and Cambridge University. This book is a compilation of the papers originally presented at the first Maastricht-Cambridge Symposium in 2000.

New Directions in Economic Geography

New Directions in Economic Geography
Author: B. Fingleton
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 184720421X

This book is a serious attempt to cover all of the relevant subdisciplines in the geographical economics framework. . . I would recommend the book to students of economic geography, regional economics, and related disciplines. Frans Boekema, Journal of Regional Science . . . this book is empirically and theoretically comprehensive in its scope. The nearly eighteen authors who have contributed to this book present a truly transatlantic perspective on NEG. . . this volume will be extremely useful to those dealing with rigorous modelling to examine spatial issues in economics, geography and planning. Rajiv Thakur, Regional Science Policy and Practice I recommend the book. . . The papers of a high quality, well written and organized; empirical analyses are based on the most advanced empirical techniques, and the reader enjoys their application. Roberta Capello, Growth and Change A very interesting volume indeed, recommended reading for everyone interested in theorizing space in economics or working in the empirical spatial-economic research arena. Economic Geography Research Group This important book explores original and alternative directions for economic geography following the revolution precipitated by the advent of so-called new economic geography (NEG). Whilst, to some extent, the volume could be regarded as part of the inevitable creative destruction of NEG theory, it does promote the continuing role of theoretical and empirical contributions within spatial economic analysis, in which the rationale of scientific analysis and economic logic maintain a central place. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the extent to which NEG theory is supported in the real world. By exploring whether NEG theory can be effectively applied to provide practical insights, the authors highlight novel approaches, emerging trends, and promising new lines of enquiry in the wake of advances made by NEG. Rigorous yet engaging, this book will be an essential tool for academics and researchers specialising in regional studies, urban and spatial economics and economic geography. It will also have widespread appeal amongst policymakers involved in planning and land use.

International Financial Reporting Standards and New Directions in Earnings Management

International Financial Reporting Standards and New Directions in Earnings Management
Author: Oliveira, Jonas da Silva
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2019-03-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522578188

The fiscal market is an unpredictable torrent of information that modern organizations strive to understand. Business professionals dedicate themselves to understanding uncertain results around economic performance to improve management, reporting standards, and predict trends in financial statements. International Financial Reporting Standards and New Directions in Earnings Management is an essential reference source that discusses identifying the behavioral patterns of managers and the accounting policies they use in different opportunistic circumstances. Featuring research on topics such as earnings quality, risk reports, and investor protection, this book is ideal for regulatory authorities, accountants, impression managers, auditors, academics, students, and researchers seeking coverage on the theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies that relate to the different themes within earnings management.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer

Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer
Author: Lucie Lapovsky
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780787948597

With demands for improved quality, increasing competition for state and federal funds, and the challenges of integrating technology into the curriculum, higher education faces greater economic uncertainties than ever before. The chief financial officer (CFO) of any higher education institution stands squarely in the middle of this maelstrom. This issue of New Directions for Higher Education offers CFOs proven strategies for balancing the operating and capital budgets, maximizing net enrollment revenues, containing costs, planning for the resource needs of technology, identifying and managing risks, and investing the endowment wisely. The contributors discuss how CFOs can build positive relationships with key players in the campus?s financial planning and budget, including admissions and financial aid staff, state legislatures, and the board investment committee. This is the 107th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education.

New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk

New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2008-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0309107520

The stability of the financial system and the potential for systemic events to alter its function have long been critical issues for central bankers and researchers. Recent events suggest that older models of systemic shocks might no longer capture all of the possible paths of such disturbances or account for the increasing complexity of the financial system. To help assess these concerns, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the NRC cosponsored a conference that brought together engineers, scientists, economists, and financial market experts to promote better understanding of systemic risk in a variety of fields. The book presents an examination of tools used in ecology and engineering to study systemic collapse in those areas; a review of current trends in economic research on systemic risk, the payments system, and the market of interbank funds; and for context, descriptions of how systemic risk in the financial system affects trading activities.

New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture

New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture
Author: Peter B. R. Hazell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191003565

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches.