The current financial crisis has revealed serious flaws in models, measures and, potentially, theories, that failed to provide forward-looking expectations for upcoming losses originated from market risks. The Proceedings of the Perm Winter School 2011 propose insights on many k…
This special issue offers an interesting overview of the status quo of (German) research in real estate finance. It might also contribute to real estate research moving from a research niche closer to the center of academic interest.
Hjalmar Schacht gilt auf Grund seiner Rolle als Präsident der Reichsbank bis heute als umstrittene Figur in der Wirtschaftsgeschichte. Gleichwohl er nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg umfassende Kritik an der Geld-, Finanz- und Wirtschaftspolitik der Bundesbank und der Bundesregierung ü…
Insurance economics
by Zweifel, Peter, Eisen, Roland
fromSpringer Texts in Business and Economics
Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance by individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division o…
The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians working in the actuarial and financial fields is producing numerous meaningful scientific results. This volume, comprising a series of four-page papers, gathers new ideas relating to mathematical and statistical methods in…
The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians working in the actuarial and financial fields is producing numerous meaningful scientific results. This volume, comprising a series of four-page papers, gathers new ideas relating to mathematical and statistical methods in…
Over the past several decades, as the pace of globalization has accelerated, operational issues of international coordination have often been overlooked. For example, the global financial crisis that began in 2007 is attributed, in part, to a lack of regulatory oversight. As a r…
Central banks are powerful but poorly understood organisations. In 1900 the Bank of Japan was the only central bank to exist outside Europe but over the past century central banking has proliferated. John Singleton here explains how central banks and the profession of central ba…
This is a book about Germans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused on Bismarck and Bleichröder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker, collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of a Germany where two worlds clashed: the new world of capitalism and a…
Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
Louis Brandeis, war Anfang des Jahrhunderts einer der angesehensten Verfassungsrichter Amerikas. Er war der Erste, der die Macht der Banken anprangerte und ihnen eine einzigartige Stellung im weltweiten Wirtschaftsgefüge zuordnete. Die Theorie der sogenannten Finanzoligarchie so…
What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thi…