Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital Formation, Risk, and the Corporation -- Chapter 2. The Corporation and Other Forms of Business Organization -- Chapter 3. The Corporation Balance Sheet -- Chapter 4. The Annual Operating Statements: The Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement -- Chapter 5....

1. Enhancing Efficiency in Sustainable Markets; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini -- 2. Financing Sustainable Goals: Economic and Legal Implications; Raffaele Felicetti and Alessandro Rizzello -- 3. Rethinking Taxation and Impact Investments; Alessandro Mazzullo -- 4. Profitable Impact Bonds:...

This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries. The contributors analyse and discuss the effects of the recent financial crises on the economic growth and performance in various countries. The volume covers...

Terms and Essays -- Deposit Insurance Schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Creating a New Bank for a New Millennium -- Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis -- Intertemporal Risk and Currency Risk -- Credit Derivatives -- Foreign exchange risk premium and policy...

Part 1: Artificial Intelligence -- 1. Application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic -- 2. An IOT-Based COVID-19 Detector Using K-Nearest Neighbour -- 3. Predictive Analytics for Early Detection of COVID-19 by Fuzzy Logic -- 4. Role of Artificial Intelligence...

Modeling Reverse Logistics Network for Post-Sale Service Under International Ecosystem -- Sustainable Parallel Machine Scheduling: Trade-Off Between Tardiness And Energy Consumption -- Modeling A Coordinated Supply Chain Under Service Level Constraint With Price-Sensitive Stochastic Demand And...

Optimization Software Class Libraries -- Distribution, Cooperation, and Hybridization for Combinatorial Optimization -- A Framework for Local Search Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization Problems -- Hotframe: A Heuristic Optimization Framework -- Writing Local Search Algorithms Using...

The book addresses the problem of a time-varying unconditional variance of return processes utilizing a spline function. The knots of the spline functions are estimated as free parameters within a joined estimation process together with the parameters of the mean, the conditional variance and...

Chapter 1: Second-price auctions -- Chapter 2: First-price auctions -- Chapter 3: First-price auctions, Extensions -- Chapter 4: All-pay auctions and auctions with asymmetrically informed bidders -- Chapter 5: Third-price auctions, kth-price auctions, and lotteries -- Chapter 6: The Revenue...

Main Performance Categories: Effectiveness and Efficiency -- Multi-criteria Production Theory: Foundation of Performance Evaluation -- Data Envelopment Methodology of Performance Evaluation -- Challenges of Performance Evaluation in Practice. .