Statistics for Business, Finance & Economics

This book, originally published in 1996, develops a model of information gathering for small businesses. Whilst all small business owners gather and process some information, the quality and types of information gathered is limited. Size and resource constraints force small business owners to make d..

Reorganized and expanded, this updated book introduces the main ideas, techniques, and stochastic models of financial mathematics. It focuses on the foundations and key concepts of the modern methodology of quantitative financial analysis, explores the problems of managing insurance risks, and exami..

This book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the universal BHCs. Part 2 reviews the contemporaneous ..

This book conducts a simulation study creating universal, hypothetical bank holding companies (BHCs) through mergers to examine whether BHC expansion into nonbank business areas, those currently prohibited by law, will increase the riskiness of the universal BHCs. Part 2 reviews the contemporaneous ..

Appealing to both mainstream and evolutionary economists, this book, written by an author with an excellent track record, is a ‘crossover’ treatment of quantitative and qualitative risk analysis within the setting of new high technology ventures...

Risk Assessment and Decision-Making in Business and Industry: A Practical Guide, Second Edition addresses the many aspects of risk/uncertainty process implementation. It covers four broad aspects of R/U: general concepts; implementation processes; technical aspects; and examples of application. Each..

Suitable for readers in any area of expertise, this book addresses organizational, political, cultural, and technical issues related to implementing a successful risk assessment, management, and monetization process. It has examples of risk-monetization techniques applied in many settings and discus..

This book examines how cultural understandings of finance became increasingly speculative of risk before and after the Global Financial Crisis...

This work analyzes the changes that financial globalization is bringing about in the housing and home-finance markets of the USA, Japan and South Korea, with special attention to the gender inequality...

Size, Causes and Consequences of the Underground Economy..

This book, originally published in 1988, analyzes the regional importance of small and medium sized enterprises, supplmenting a discussion of key issues in both regional development and th eeconomics of small firms with a wide range of national case studies from Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, Gree..

This book, originally published in 1984, examines the role of small firms in Britain, Germany, France and Italy and critically appraises government policies towards them. It reassesses economic theories concerned with concentration and competition, theories which need some re-thinking to accommodate..