1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of legal measures, voluntary rules, indexes, and certifications concerning gender diversity in the banking industry -- 3. Women and bank performance: theoretical background and literature review -- 4. Data on female representation in banks -- 5. The gender pay...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Fintech and its historical perspective -- Part I: FINTECH & BLOCKCHAIN: INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW -- Chapter 3: Financial Engineering and ICT in the past -- Chapter 4: Fintech and Blockchain: Contemporary Issues, New Paradigms and Disruption -- Chapter 5: The...

Chapter 1: Financial Markets: Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 2: Financial Markets: Current Trends and Factors that Determine the Functioning of Financial and Credit Institutions. Chapter 3: Paradoxes of Financial Market Institutions: Traditions and Ecosystems -- Chapter 4: The role of...

This book analyzes the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation and explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries. It is explained how these challenges derive...

This book presents the methodology and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and...

This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...

This book is a practical guide to the evolving landscape of finance, highlighting how it’s changing our relationship with money and how financial technology, together with macroeconomic and societal change, is rewriting the story of how business is done in developing economies. Financial...

Introduction -- Measuring financial inclusion: A survey -- Financial Inclusion: A Measurement and Comparative Analysis of Countries from Europe and Asia -- Financial Constraints and Export Participation: A Case Study of Indian Textile Industry -- Financial Liberalization and Financial...

Social Entrepreneurship wird wesentlich durch Venture-Philanthropy- und Social-Venture-Capital-Gesellschaften finanziert. Peter Heister analysiert den Auswahlprozess und die Auswahlkriterien dieser neuartigen Finanzintermediäre auf Basis von Fallstudien und legt damit die erste umfangreiche...