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This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on finance.

"Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose - and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by: - setting markets and financial market failure in a historical context - bringing politics and culture back into the analysis of global finance - drawing on the latest thinking by sociologists of economic life. With a convincing argument for better regulation of markets, Robert Holton provides a fascinating insight into the volatile and often misunderstood world of global finance. This is a key text for undergraduate students of sociology, economics, business, and politics, as well as being an incisive, informative read for anyone with an interest in this topical issue"--

Cover -- Half Tilte -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Contents -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ALDINE TRANSACTION INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD -- BOOK ONE: PUBLIC FINANCE ANALYSIS -- 1.Public Finance : Scope and Effects -- 2 Criteria -- BOOK TWO: MICRO PUBLIC FINANCE -- PART I. GOVERNMENT OUTLAYS -- 3 Types of Outlay and Receipt -- Expenditure Administration -- 4 Government Services in General -- 5 Particular Government Services -- 6 Unrequited Payments in General -- 7 Particular Unrequited Payments -- PART I . GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS -- 8 General Sales Taxes: Turnover Tax and Intermediate Single-Stage Taxes -- 9 General Sales Taxes : Retail Sales Tax, Value-Added Tax -- 10 Excise Taxes and Monopoly Revenue -- 11 Income Taxes : I -- 12 Income Taxes: I I -- 13 Expenditure Tax -- 14 Property Taxation: Net-Worth Tax, Capital Levy, Death and Gift Taxes -- 15 Property Taxation : Real Estate Tax, Taxes on Transfers for a Consideration -- 16 Taxes on Labor Income -- Export and Import Taxes -- Other Taxes and Para-Taxes -- 17 Tax Administration -- 18 Government Borrowing and Inflationary Finance -- BOOK THREE: MACRO PUBLIC FINANCE -- 19 Framework of Macro Public Finance -- 20 Size of the Public Finance Sector -- 21 Optimum Output Pattern -- 22 Full Employment and Capacity Utilization -- 23 Distribution of Disposable Income -- Economic Growth -- 24 Price Stability -- External Equilibrium -- 25 Intergovernmental Fiscal Coordination -- INDEX

Improved understanding of the key role of financial aspects in the growth and development of economic systems is an important aspect of economic analysis. This first textbook on development finance provides a comprehensive coverage of this new area of economics. The book integrates relevant theoretical approaches and their policy applications. A unique perspective combines transaction cost economics and neoclassical economics. The author also treats important policy issues of national and international relevance. The roles of public and private finance, domestic and external finance, short-term and long-term capital flows, sovereign debt management features, country risk and other determinants of foreign direct investments, multilateral official development assistance and development of financial institutions are some of the topics examined in this book

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Finanzplatz Schweiz: Financial Center Switzerland -- Chapter 3: Swiss Banking System -- Chapter 4: Swiss Bank (Customer) Secrecy & the International Exchange of Information -- Chapter 5: Swiss Financial Market Regulators & Laws -- Chapter 6: Swiss Institutional Investors -- Chapter 7: Swiss National Bank & Swiss Franc's Role in Global Financial Markets -- Chapter 8: Swiss Debt Markets -- Chapter 9: Swiss Equity Markets -- Chapter 10: Swiss Derivative Markets -- Chapter 11: Financial Digitalization, Fintech, and the Collaborative Economy -- Chapter 12: Swiss Taxes on Investments and Financing -- Chapter 13: Summery & Outlook.

Intro -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Part I The Healthcare Enviroment -- Chapter 1 Healthcare Finance Basis -- Chapter 1 Supplement- Health Services Settings -- Chapter 2 Healthcare Insurance and Reimbursement Methodologies -- Chapter 2 Supplement- Additional Medicare Payment Methods -- Part II Financial Accounting -- Chapter 3 The Income Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity -- Chapter 4 The Balance Sheet of Statement of Cash Flows -- Part III Managerial Accounting -- Chapter 5 Organizational Costing and Profit Analysis -- Chapter Supplement 5 Semi-Fixed Costs and Operating Leverage -- Chapter 6 Departmental Costing and Cost Allocation -- Chapter Supplement 6 Step-Down Method Illustration -- Chapter 7 Service Line Costing and Pricing -- Chapter Supplement 7 Making Service Decisions -- Chapter 8 Financial Planning and Budgeting -- Part IV Basic Financial Management Concepts -- Chapter 9 Time Value Analysis -- Chapter Supplement 9 Interest Rate and Time Calculations and Amortization -- Chapter 10 Financial Risk and Required Return -- Part V Long-Term Financing -- Chapter 11 Long-Term Debt Financing -- Chapter Supplement 11- Credit Enhancement, Term Structure of Interest Rates, and Economic Factors That Influence Interest Rate Levels -- Chapter 12 Equity Financing and Securities Markets -- Chapter Supplement 12 The Market for Common Stock, Securities Markets Regulation, And The Investment Banking Process -- Chapter 13 Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital -- Part VI Capital Investment Decisions -- Chapter 14 The Basics of Capital Budgeting -- Chapter 15 Project Risk Analysis -- Part VII Other Topics -- Chapter 16 Revenue Cycle And Current Accounts Management -- Chapter 17 Financial Conditions Analysis.

1. Introduction -- 2. Financial institution and markets -- 3. Financial understanding of accounting concepts -- 4. Ratio analysis and the Dupont system -- 5. Capital budgeting -- 6. Valuing investment under risk and uncertainty -- 7. Debt choice -- 8. Summary.

The third edition of Ethics in Finance presents an authoritative and wide-ranging examination of the major ethical issues in finance. This new edition has been expanded and thoroughly updated with extensive coverage of the recent financial crisis and the very latest developments within the financial world. Substantially updated new edition with nearly 40% new material, including sections on credit cards, mortgage lending, microfinance, risk management, derivatives, and securitizationIncludes coverage and references to the recent financial crisis and the very latest developments within the fin

Angesichts der Volatilität und zunehmenden Anomalien auf den Finanz- und Kapitalmärkten wächst die Bedeutung der Behavioral Finance, der verhaltensorientierten Finanzmarkttheorie. Diese beschäftigt sich mit der Psychologie der Kapitalanleger und versucht zu zeigen, wie Anlageentscheidungen am Finanz- und Kapitalmarkt zustandekommen. Dabei wird klar, dass Menschen - entgegen der häufig unterstellten Annahme des rational agierenden Homo oeconomicus - hier irrational handeln und deshalb häufig fehlerhafte Entscheidungen treffen. Das vorliegende, bewusst kurzgefasst und anschaulich geschriebene Lehrbuch führt vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Finanzmarktentwicklung in die Grundlagen der Behavioral Finance ein, zeigt die wesentlichen Theoriebausteine und gibt damit Anhaltspunkte für ein aus Sicht der verhaltensorientierten Markttheorie sinnvolles Anlegerverhalten.

The rapid advances in financial technology in the past decade have led to a commensurate increase in sophistication for modelling techniques needed by the researchers for the understanding of financial markets. The book aims at equipping graduate students, market analysts and others with a wide range of empirical techniques. It not only discusses the analytical structures behind such modelling approaches, but also explains how they are applied to actual data.Besides traditional elements of financial econometrics and statistical techniques commonly used in quantitative finance, the book covers: estimation of parametric and non-parametric models; advanced tools to deal with unobserved components; discrete time models of asset prices and of interest rates. Illustrations include speculative equity prices, equity and currency risk premium as well as real investment opportunity analysis and interest rate contingent claim valuation.