What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, whi…
What do hedge funds really do? These lightly regulated funds continually innovate new investing and trading strategies to take advantage of temporary mispricing of assets (when their market price deviates from their intrinsic value). These techniques are shrouded in mystery, whi…
"The idea of cultural heritage as an 'international public good' can be traced back to the Preamble of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, according to which "damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatso…
"Arbitrage is a trading practice that involves buying the same or similar items where they are priced low, and selling them where they are priced high, to gain a profit simply from the disparity in prices. It is fundamental both to the practice of financial trading and to econom…
"Arbitrage is a trading practice that involves buying the same or similar items where they are priced low, and selling them where they are priced high, to gain a profit simply from the disparity in prices. It is fundamental both to the practice of financial trading and to econom…
Capitalism as capture -- Arbitrage in theory -- Arbitrage IRL -- The Postonian turn : from exploitation to abstract domination -- Money machines -- The emperor's new clothes. "Arbitrage is a trading practice that involves buying the same or similar items where they are priced l…
Arbitrage--the trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profit--is fundamental to the practice of financial trading and economic understandings of how financial markets function. Because trad…
"Arbitrage is a trading practice that involves buying the same or similar items where they are priced low, and selling them where they are priced high, to gain a profit simply from the disparity in prices. It is fundamental both to the practice of financial trading and to econom…
"Carolyn Hardin offers a new way of understanding arbitrage--the trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profit--as a means of showing how its reliance upon taking on risk is fundamental to …
In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This pathbreaking book reveals for the first time how an elite, transnational legal profession has emerged over the last three decades and engaged in the construction of…
In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. This pathbreaking book reveals for the first time how an elite, transnational legal profession has emerged over the last three decades and engaged in the construction of…
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"A guide to the techniques and institutions used to solve international disputes, how they work and when they are used. This textbook looks at diplomatic (negotiation, mediation, inquiry and conciliation) and legal methods (arbitration, judicial settlement). It uses many, often …
This book provides an integrated, technical exposition of key concepts in agency theory, with particular emphasis on analyses of the economic consequences of the characteristics of contractible performance measures, such as accounting reports. It is not a survey of the literatur…
This book provides an integrated, technical exposition of key concepts in agency theory, with particular emphasis on analyses of the economic consequences of the characteristics of contractible performance measures, such as accounting reports. It is not a survey of the literatur…
This is a short book on the fundamental concepts of the no-arbitrage theory of pricing financial derivatives. Its scope is limited to the general discrete setting of models for which the set of possible states is finite and so is the set of possible trading times - this includes…
