Introduction: Insurance and Its Economic Role -- Risks: Measurement, Perception, and Management -- Insurance Demand I: Decisions Under Risk Without Diversification Possibilities -- Insurance Demand II: Nontraditional Approaches to Decisions Under Risk -- Insurance Demand III: Decisions Under...

Financial models are an inescapable feature of modern financial markets. Yet it was over reliance on these models and the failure to test them properly that is now widely recognized as one of the main causes of the financial crisis of 2007-2011. Since this crisis, there has been an increase in...

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618378);Can the contemporary Islamic finance movement be shown to meet the requirements of modern commerce? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on America the UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting transnational sources of terrorist funds....

A systematic study of the process of developing Islamic financial products for banks.Islamic banking began in the 1970s with the aim of providing financial services compatible with Islamic law. Driven by market forces it has grown rapidly in Muslim countries and in international financial...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Section One. No Banks without States, and No States without Banks -- 1. If Stable and Efficient Banks Are Such a Good Idea, Why Are They So Rare? -- 2. The Game of Bank Bargains -- 3. Tools of Conquest and Survival Why States Need Banks -- 4. Privileges with...

Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book. Alan S. Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve System and member of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers,...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- I. Vorbemerkung zu diesem Band -- Die jüdischen Angestellten und Betriebsrentner der Dresdner Bank -- II. Die Verdrängung der jüdischen Angestellten -- III. Abfindungen und Betriebsrenten -- IV. Die Dresdner Bank und ihre jüdischen Angestellten - ein Zwischenfazit --...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Danksagung -- I. Vorbemerkung zu diesem Band -- II. Die Expansion nach Österreich -- III. Die Dresdner Bank im Sudetenland und im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren -- 1. Auftakt zur Ostexpansion - Die Dresdner Bank und die "Neuordnung" des Bankwesens im Sudetenland -- 2....