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Understanding Ponzi schemes : can better financial regulation prevent investors from being defrauded?

Lewis, Mervyn - 2015

A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central...

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Household finance

Haliassos, Michael - 2015

Since its emergence in the 1980s, the subject of Household Finance has rapidly grown into a critical area of economic focus. Research, policy and practitioner interest has increased as household portfolios have become more complicated in response to financial innovation and new challenges in...

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Handbook of financial decision making

Hilary, Gilles (ed.); McLean, David (ed.) - 2023

"This accessible Handbook provides an essential entry point for those with an interest in the increasingly complex subject of financial decision-making. It sheds light on new paradigms in society and the ways that new tools from private actors have affected financial decision-making. Covering a...

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Financial risk measurement and management

Diebold, Francis X. - 2012

'I have always thought authoritative lists such as "100 books you should read" are fascinating. So it is great to also have such a list available in one's professional field. Professor Diebold's book does just that; it compiles his list of academic research articles one should know in risk...

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Intellectual property rights and the financing of technological innovation : public policy and the efficiency of capital markets

Frey, Carl Benedikt - 2013

1. Introduction -- 2. The intangible economy -- 3. Patent information and corporate credit ratings : an empirical study of patent valuation by credit rating agencies -- 4. IPR management and company valuation in the pharmaceutical industry : an exploratory study -- 5. IPR management, corporate...

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Economists and the stock market : speculative theories of stock market fluctuations

Raines, J. Patrick; Leathers, Charles G. - 2000

The role of the stock market in the recent global financial crisis has led many to question the way in which the modern international financial system operates. This highly topical book offers important insights into the stock market, contrasting the speculative explanation of stock market...

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Why the bubble burst : US stock market performance since 1982

Evans, Lawrance Lee - 2003

Why the Bubble Burst provides a comprehensive look at the most dramatic run-up in equity values in US history. Lawrance Evans takes the reader from theory to empirics, illustrating why we need to go beyond the efficient markets hypothesis and the theory of domestic irrational exuberance to fully...

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The silicon dragon : high-tech industry in Taiwan

Cai, Shuheng - 2006

success story of the microelectronics industry in Taiwan. The book examines the government policies that acted as catalysts to … the growth of high-tech industries in Taiwan, along with the roles of high-tech "incubators" and government … Taiwan / Soo-Hung Terence Tsai and Chang-hui Zhou -- Macronix International Co. Ltd (MXIC) / Chin-kang Jen -- The model of …

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The impact of the economic crisis on East Asia : policy responses from four economies

Liu, Bih Jane (contributor); Shaw, Daigee (contributor) - 2011

Written by a distinguished group of Asian social scientists, this study summarizes and synthesizes the economic impacts of the crisis on individual countries and their policy response since 2008, and in particular carefully scrutinizes the immediate and remote causes of the crisis. It not only...

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Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness : new data on the use of patents by universities, small firms, and individual inventors

Kingston, William - 2006

This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...

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