Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Investments & Securities - General

This book proposes that price volatility and speculation in the oil market originate from a decades-long process of financialisation. The author challenges mainstream critical accounts of the market that typically invoke the notion of a global oil shortage and so-called peak oil arguments. Instead, he argues that the development of the market has been punctuated by recurring oil price shocks. Chapters examine the evolution of the international oil market and investigate how, and to what effect, the process of financialisation has transformed the structure and dynamics of the global oil...

Portfolio Diversification provides an update on the practice of combining several risky investments in a portfolio with the goal of reducing the portfolio's overall risk. In this book, readers will find a comprehensive introduction and analysis of various dimensions of portfolio diversification (assets, maturities, industries, countries, etc.), along with time diversification strategies (long term vs. short term diversification) and diversification using other risk measures than variance. Several tools to quantify and implement optimal diversification are discussed and...

Robert Hof untersucht die Bedeutung des Innovationsgrades der Geschaftsidee von Start-ups fur deren Finanzierungsmoglichkeiten und analysiert, ob es Unterschiede in der Finanzierbarkeit von Start-ups mit mehr bzw. weniger innovativen Geschaftsideen gibt. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung liefern konkrete Hinweise, nach welchen Kriterien Risikokapitalgeber ihre Investitionsentscheidungen treffen und es wird deutlich, dass der Innovationsgrad einer Geschaftsidee praktische Bedeutung fur die Finanzierungsmoglichkeiten von Start-ups hat. Der Autor zeigt auf, welche Voraussetzungen...

Systemic Risk provides readers with a wide-ranging practical guide to systemic risk in the financial system. It challenges the notion that systemic risk is exclusively about interconnectivities within the financial system, showing that past systemic risk crises have often involved a broader range of vulnerabilities.

It describes how regulators and governments are seeking to manage systemic risk, and how their concerns are driving change in regulatory and business environments across the financial sector. It sets out how firms and practitioners can effectively respond to these...

Michael Migendt explains the role of alternative investments in supporting the growth of a sustainable economy and recognizes levers that policy makers, managers and entrepreneurs could use for further accelerating green innovation through finance. He focuses on specific examples of alternative investments into green industries, companies, projects, and infrastructure, covering the developments along the innovation chain. Especially the acceleration of green technologies and the in this context occurring interrelations between the three areas of finance, innovation, and policy are key to...

In Chains of Finance, five social scientists discuss the ways in which the intermediaries in the chain influence each other, channel the flows of savers' money, enhance...