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  • Research in Crisis

    Blueprint to Overhaul the Broken Knowledge Factory

    by Les Coleman ...
    This book explores the weak explanatory and predictive power of theories across disciplines, explains reasons for limited expertise after centuries of scientific effort, and sets forth strategies to accelerate knowledge and manage a future we can only dimly comprehend.Gaps in knowledge arose because common, natural and artificial phenomena are fundamentally hard to understand, and in expertise ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • New Principles of Equity Investment

    by Les Coleman ...
    The modern finance paradigm is incomplete. Obvious gaps include poor performance of professional investors, puzzles enough in equity markets to support a sub-discipline of behavioural finance that patches over irrational biases and mispricings, and chronic, but inexplicable, financial crises. As with so many other disciplines, existing finance theory explains less than a tenth of what we see in ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Risk Strategies

    Dialling Up Optimum Firm Risk

    by Les Coleman ...
    At a time when unacceptable risk taking is rightly condemned, how can organizations still benefit from the upside of risk? Can risk still be good? Written by an author who has managed risk, teaches about risk, but most importantly of all has researched the theory of risk, this book will help senior executives dial up the right level of risk within their organizations in order to enhance ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Applied Investment Theory

    How Markets and Investors Behave, and Why

    by Les Coleman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Institutions now dominate trading in equities around the world. Mutual funds are the most prominent, and doubly important as custodians of retirement savings. Despite this, there is no comprehensive description of fund manager behaviour, much less a matching theory. This is troubling because one of the most economically significant puzzles in finance is why experienced, well-resourced fund ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Lunacy of Modern Finance Theory and Regulation

    by Les Coleman ...
    This provocative book provides insight into a finance industry that is run for the benefit of banks and service providers who rely on Beatles-era theories and regulation which are totally unsuited to the modern world. The author has a near-unique perspective based on over 30 years of working – literally around the globe – for corporates, fund managers and as finance academic. In his last role his ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    by Mark L. Sirower ...
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  • Resourcing Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

    A Financial Growth Life Cycle Approach

    by Ciarán Mac an Bhaird ...
    Series series Contributions to Management Science
    In a world of increasing financial uncertainty and growing unemployment, the macroeconomic contribution of SMEs is more important than ever. Development of a vibrant, sustainable small firm sector is dependent on sufficient resourcing of SMEs, particularly adequate capitalisation. This book provides a timely examination of SME financing and determinants of capital structure. A special feature of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Competition and Profitability in European Financial Services

    Strategic, Systemic and Policy Issues

    by Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of monetary policy.This collection of research contributions includes evaluations of trends in the European ... Read more

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  • Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Ruud A.I. van Frederikslust, James S. Ang, P.S. Sudarsanam ...
    Ruud. A. I. van Frederikslust, Associate Professor of Finance, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University RotterdamJames S. Ang, Bank of America Eminent Scholar, Professor of Finance, College of Business, The Florida State UniversitySudi Sudarsanam, Professor of Finance & Corporate Control, School of Management, Cranfield UniversityRuud. A. I. van Frederikslust, Associate Professor of ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Managing the Family Business

    Theory and Practice

    by Thomas Zellweger ...
    This innovative textbook covers the most important challenges facing family businesses. Practice-inspired and research-based, it emphasizes both practice and theory along with concepts, cases and reflection questions to illustrate key topics.This text discusses the relevance of family firms across the globe, their unique strengths and weaknesses, their governance, strategic management, the ... Read more

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  • Behavioural Investing

    A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance

    by James Montier ...
    Series series The Wiley Finance Series
    Behavioural investing seeks to bridge the gap between psychology and investing. All too many investors are unaware of the mental pitfalls that await them. Even once we are aware of our biases, we must recognise that knowledge does not equal behaviour. The solution lies is designing and adopting an investment process that is at least partially robust to behavioural decision-making errors ... Read more

    $104.00 USD