This book covers the entire spectrum of cultural and digital tourism and presents the latest findings, examples and cases, highlighting innovations for the tourism industry from both an academic and a practical point of view. The book invites readers to discover ongoing developments and recent...

Terms, definitions and short essays -- Deposit insurance schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium -- Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds -- Intertemporal risk and currency risk -- Credit derivatives -- international parity conditions...

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...

Introduction; Tina Harrison -- Chapter 1: Cognitive drivers of suboptimal financial decisions: Implications for financial literacy campaigns; Hooman Estelami -- Chapter 2: How mutual fund investors’ objective and subjective knowledge impacts their information search and processing behaviour;...

In this book Simona Roccioletti reviews several valuable studies about risk measures and their properties; in particular she studies the new (and heavily discussed) property of "Elicitability" of a risk measure. More important, she investigates the issue related to the backtesting of Expected...

"The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that...

Impulse der kirchlichen Sozialverkündigung.- Das nationale Finanzsystem: Eine Einführung -- Politische Wirtschaftsethik: Grundlagen und finanzethische Konkretion -- Die internationale Finanzwirtschaft: Eine Einführung -- Globale wirtschaftliche Gerechtigkeit: Grundlagen und finanzethische...

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...