Introduction.- Finance and the Financial Crisis.- Corporate Governance and Restructuring Through Spin-Offs: European Evidence.- Alternative Specification of Bank Lending in France and Germany: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications.- Towards Banking Union in Europe - an Interim Assessment.- A World Without Money Needs No Banks and No Rating.- Detection of Put-Call Parity Violations with Limited Arbitrage: A Regulatory Tool for Detecting Financial Irregularity.- Enabling Holistic Finance Education in Turbulent Times.- Actual Problems of Finance Teaching in Ukraine in the Post-Crisis Period.- Executive Compensation and Risk Taking: The Impact of Systemic Crises.- Measuring the Success of Executive Education - Comprehensively Depicting Holistic Finance Education.- Conclusion.
Prof. Ted Azarmi, PhD
trains doctoral students in finance at University of Tuebingen. He is also a
finance professor at Heilbronn University. He has 25 years of experience as a
business professor in USA, Japan and Germany. Ted Azarmi has several teaching
excellence awards from USA for which he received newspaper coverage in Los
Angeles area.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Amann has been designing and
delivering executive education seminars for more than 17 years. He now serves
as academic director and professor of strategy and leadership at HEC Paris in
Qatar. Next to his doctorate in international strategic management from the
University of St. Gallen, he also graduated from the major faculty development
programs worldwide, such as Harvard University’s MLE, IMD’s ITP, IESE’s IFP,
and EFMD IDP. He published 15 books for executives and compiled more than
100 case studies for his executive education seminars. He won several global
and pan-European prizes for his research as well as teaching efforts and was
awarded several honorary professorships.
This book brings together a good mix of academics and practitioners
for a discussion that focuses on how to change financial practice and the
academic field of finance in order to understand the current financial crisis
and deal with future turbulent financial times. The volume is based on
contributions by prominent academics and practitioners from Europe, Asia and the
USA. The book contains several essays, most prominently by Maurizio Murgia, an
internationally renowned European corporate finance scholar, and Robert E.
Krainer, a senior professor with banking and business cycles research interest
from University of Wisconsin-Madison. This book also deals with pedagogical,
empirical and theoretical considerations in light of the crisis.