This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies

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This book provides coherent theoretical and empirical analysis of firms' investment and financing decisions. It assesses the role of uncertainty, financial imperfections, corporate governance and taxation. Evidence is obtained using several unique and high quality microeconomic data-sets, which...

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This book explores the challenges regarding risks and risk management related to the growing complexity of ICT solutions. The main argument of the book is that the complexity of ICT solutions has continued to grow throughout the history of ICT, and that it has now reached a level that goes...

Global business is affected by global terrorism and the two are intricately linked on many levels. This book is an eclectic and enlightening compendium of research that explores the interrelationships between the two. A companion to and expansion on the authors' previous books on the area,...

Who's afraid of the big bad bear? : or, why investment in equities for retirement is not scary and why investing without equities is scary / Ronald Bewley, Nick Ingram, Veronica Livera and Sheridan Thompson -- Assessing the risks in global fixed interest portfolios / Geoffrey Brianton -- The...

Contents: Introduction -- 1. Convenience case of navy commander -- 2. Convenience case of chief executive officer -- 3. Convenience case of corruption blame -- 4. Convenience case of investment fraud -- 5. Rich and mighty on the shoreline -- 6. Corruption among friends -- 7. Germany: Thomas...

There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication contains recent theoretical contributions to the economics of insurance and presents empirical tests and applications of the theory to many different insurance markets. It also offers...

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