Finance

Provides an explanation of hedge funds, their key players and the relevant regulations. Includes a glossary of related terms and data tables and charts.

In the financial services market, financial service providers often have better information about the quality, features, fees, risks, and benefits of their products or services than consumers. In this report, we review the literature on consumer disclosures in the financial industry. The primary focus is on disclosures of conflicts of interest, but we also examine use of disclosure associated with other common financial products or services.

Essentials of Financial Management is suitable for students with limited knowledge of finance and financial markets. It answers the main questions of a corporate entity, such as how businesses finance their activities, how they select projects to invest in, the distribution of net cash flow and, of increasing importance, how businesses manage price risk relating to cost of goods sold or a decline in revenue.

Government bailouts; negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should; new populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise; new regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim to authority over the global economy; households, consumers, and workers facing increasingly intolerable levels of inequality: These dramatic conditions seem to cry out for new ways of understanding the purposes, roles, and challenges of central banks and financial governance more generally. Financial Citizenship reveals that the conflicts about who gets to decide how central banks do all these things, and about whether central banks are acting in everyone's interest when they do them, are in large part the product of a culture clash between experts and the various global publics that have a stake in what central banks do.

This book argues that money is a public resource that has been hijacked by capitalism. Mary Mellor explores the history of money and modern banking, showing how finance capital has captured bank-created money to enhance speculative ‘leveraged’ profits as well as destroying collective approaches to economic life.

Presents the president's speech to the United States Congress on December 9, 1868, about his recommendation for the revaluation of public debt.

The financial crisis of 2007-8 has already revolutionized institutions, markets, and regulation. Wright's Money and Banking V 2.0 captures those revolutionary changes and packages them in a way that engages undergraduates enrolled in Money and Banking and Financial Institutions and Markets courses.

A practical guide to the math behind options and how that knowledge can improve your trading performance.