Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Why Faith-Based Investing? -- 2 Screening Methodologies and their Implications -- 3 Comparative Performance of Faith-Based Portfolios -- 4 Screening and Dividend Payout Behaviour -- 5 The Model -- 6 Summing up the Final Thoughts -- References -- List of Figures --...

How do two-career couples manage in a one-career world?It's about Time examines this mismatch between outdated scripts and the experiences of dual-earner couples. It broadens our understanding of occupational and family career strategies couples use in light of the widening gap between their...

Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and even attack, management manipulates, and individual board members have little power, able to act only as part of the board as a whole. Governance issues are front and center, yet there is often little understanding, even among...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition, 2005 -- Preface to the First Edition, 2000 -- Acknowledgments -- One. The Stock Market in Historical Perspective -- Two. The Bond Market in Historical Perspective -- Three. The Real...

David Card and Alan B. Krueger have already made national news with their pathbreaking research on the minimum wage. Here they present a powerful new challenge to the conventional view that higher minimum wages reduce jobs for low-wage workers. In a work that has important implications for...

Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that...

Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Econometrics uses data and statistical inference methods, together with structural and descriptive modeling, to address rigorous economic problems. Its development within the world of finance is quite recent and has been paralleled by...

Emergent innovative financial technologies are profoundly changing the way in which we spend, move and manage our money, unlike ever before, and traditional retail banks are facing stiff competition. The global financial crisis in 2007–2009 led to large losses, and even the collapse of a...