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The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules…
and new legal frameworks and regulation. There has also been an advent of new technologies and payment solutions which has altered the European payments landscape drastically.This book provides an overview of the fundamental issues involved in this new payments landscape. The authors discuss fundamental problems such as substitution between cash and non-cash payment instruments, payment costs, the economics of fees, and the demand for cash and deposit money. They also analyse issues such as two-sided markets, business platforms and the problem of critical mass.Other chapters focus on new phenomena in payments such as mobile payments, multi-sided platforms, electronic wallets, virtual currencies, decentralised ledgers, private digital currencies, blockchain and instant payments. The authors also review existing regulation for the topic including the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), Interchange Fee Regulation (IF/MIF Reg), and the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) project.Transforming Payment Systems in Europe offers insight into changing payment culture and the ways in which new payment systems can create a single digital market to foster further integration in Europe.SABR and SABR LIBOR Market Models in Practice: With Examples Implemented in Python (Applied Quantitative Finance)
By Peter Larkin, Christian Crispoldi, Gérald Wigger. 2015
Interest rate traders have been using the SABR model to price vanilla products for more than a decade. However this…
model suffers however from a severe limitation: its inability to value exotic products. A term structure model à la LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is often employed to value these more complex derivatives, however the LMM is unable to capture the volatility smile. A joint SABR LIBOR Market Model is the natural evolution towards a consistent pricing of vanilla and exotic products. Knowledge of these models is essential to all aspiring interest rate quants, traders and risk managers, as well an understanding of their failings and alternatives. SABR and SABR Libor Market Models in Practice is an accessible guide to modern interest rate modelling. Rather than covering an array of models which are seldom used in practice, it focuses on the SABR model, the market standard for vanilla products, the LIBOR Market Model, the most commonly used model for exotic products and the extended SABR LIBOR Market Model. The book takes a hands-on approach, demonstrating simply how to implement and work with these models in a market setting. It bridges the gap between the understanding of the models from a conceptual and mathematical perspective and the actual implementation by supplementing the interest rate theory with modelling specific, practical code examples written in Python.Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
By Janice Loreck. 2016
Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the…
representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and spectatorship, Loreck investigates the power of art cinema to depict transgressive femininity.Modern Multi-Factor Analysis of Bond Portfolios: Critical Implications for Hedging and Investing
By Giovanni Barone Adesi, Nicola Carcano. 2016
Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management…
could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were developed several decades ago, and the advantages of multi-factor models are not fully recognised by many researchers and practitioners.This book provides clear and practical insight into bond portfolios and portfolio management through key empirical analysis. The authors use extensive sets of empirical data to describe the value potentially added by more recent techniques to manage interest rate risk relative to traditional techniques and to present empirical evidence of such an added value. Beginning with a description of the simplest models and moving on to the most complex, the authors offer key recommendations for the future of rate risk management.The Political Economy of Imperial Relations offers a much needed historical and theoretical intervention into the relationship between Britain and…
Malaya after the Second World War. It challenges existing accounts and details a strong continuity in this relationship from 1945 until 1960.The Towers of New Capital: Mega Townships in India
By Piyush Tiwari. 2016
With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm…
in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today’s readers. New historical data on eighteenth-…
and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian history with other Mediterranean countries is much more clearly demonstrated today than when Islamic Roots of Capitalism first was published.Der Weg zum Personalkennzahlensystem: Das HR-Cockpit in der Praxis – einfach, pragmatisch, systematisch
By Heribert Wienkamp. 2020
Dieses Fachbuch gibt einen Überblick über den erfolgreichen Einsatz von Kennzahlensystemen im Personalwesen und stellt die dafür notwendigen Instrumente und…
Kennziffern vor. Wie der Weg zu einem Personalkennzahlensystem aussehen kann, welche Adressaten es in welchem Umfang nutzen können und wie es schließlich in einem Management-Informations-System (MIS) in Ihrem Unternehmen zu integrieren ist, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch.Ohne eine konkrete Vorstellung davon, was eine Organisation an Informationen über ihr Personal braucht, ist ein wirksames Personalmanagement nicht möglich. Durch Personalkennzahlensysteme lassen sich Personaldaten komprimiert, anwendungsfreundlich und handlungsorientiert darstellen. Entscheidend für die Qualität eines solchen Systems ist weniger die Menge an Personalinformationen, sondern die bewusste Auswahl der Daten, indem nur die Messwerte berücksichtigt werden, die die aktuelle Personalstrategie in ihrer Umsetzung und Ressourcensteuerung unterstützen und in enger Beziehung zum täglichen Personalgeschäft stehen. Aus allen wesentlichen Personalfunktionen erhalten Sie als Leser konkrete Vorschläge, Anregungen und Ideen, um Ihr eigenes unternehmensspezifisches Personalkennzahlensystem zu gestalten. Das Buch richtet sich an Führungskräfte und Beschäftigte sowohl im Personalwesen als auch in anderen Unternehmensbereichen (z. B. Controlling), die sich für das Personalmanagement in Zahlen interessieren. Aus dem Inhalt Personal-Controlling durch Personalkennzahlen Anwendungsbereiche: Personalplanung, Personalbeschaffungs- und Personalentwicklungs- planung, PersonalkostenplanungSpezielle-Anwendungen: Bildungs-Controlling, Leistungsbeurteilung, VergütungscontrollingDas HR-Cockpit als finales Informations- und BeurteilungsmediumAlthough philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no…
longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim.Post-Materialist Business: Spiritual Value-Orientation in Renewing Management
By László Zsolnai. 2015
Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management. It uses pluralistic view of spirituality and provides a number…
of inspiring cases of alternative organizations which go beyond the materialistic mindset of business and serve the common good of society, nature, and future generations.Catalyzing Development through ICT Adoption: The Developing World Experience
By Harleen Kaur, Ewa Lechman, Adam Marszk. 2017
This book examines the role that Information and Communication Technologies ICTs play in growth and economic development promotion…
specifically for developing countries It highlights multiple methodologies for quantifying the impact of ICTs This includes quantitative and qualitative methods but also novel conclusive and informative methodological approaches for measuring ICTs influence on economic development The book highlights trends perspectives and success stories for different developing countries ICTs bring new business models innovations capital-labor substitution improved goods and services to developing markets Because they can spread rapidly with little cost and require minimal skills for usage ICTs create a solid background for social and economic gains They enable significant reduction in information asymmetries which improves access to economic activities for multitude of agents fostering participation inter alias in labor market of disadvantaged societal groups After almost two decades of rapid diffusion of ICT in developing world this book seeks to assess the real benefits and consequences of ICTs adoption in developing countries The chapters use broad real-world based evidence to provide a better understanding of the precise nature of new technologies and their impact of the country s economy and societySocial and Psychological Dimensions of Personal Debt and the Debt Industry
By Carl Walker, Serdar M. Degirmencioglu. 2015
An understanding of personal debt requires an understanding of the complex social systems that produce poverty. By drawing upon international…
perspectives, this book investigates why more and more people are in debt, why it is causing so much mental distress and exactly who is benefiting from what has become the world's number one growth industry.Performance Anxiety in Media Culture explores the culture of performance anxiety in the media-saturated contemporary world. It uses comparative case…
studies including film, social media, and popular music to examine the ways that personal concern regarding self-presentation becomes transformed into shared cultural expressions through the use of media technologies. Three initial chapters are dedicated to exploring the work of Erving Goffman, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard as critical for a thorough understanding of how implications of a range of recent transformations in the methods for staging social performances are staged and in the ways that they are experienced and interpreted by others. Three subsequent chapters explore diverse case studies in the culture of performance anxiety: the representation of such anxieties in recent French cinema, the appearance of them in the world of fashion-based 'outfit of the day' blogs, and the attempt to refine a more fixed social persona in the nostalgic culture of rockabilly music.Philosophy of Leadership: The Power of Authority
By Jean-Etienne Joullié, Robert Spillane. 2015
Philosophy of Leadership has been written to arouse curiosity, not to satisfy it. The authors point out ideas about leadership…
which draw upon both ancient and modern wisdom. This book develops a philosophy of leadership by tracing the evolution of Western ideas from philosophical perspectives, ancient and modern.In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of…
modern Japan. Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or long-term transactions. This includes hierarChina's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth (Routledge Studies On The Chinese Economy Ser.)
By Richard Sanders, Yang Chen. 2004
China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out…
of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and there is a dangerous level of inequality of income andBringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of experts, this is the first comprehensive volume to analyze conglomerates and economic…
groups in developing countries and transition economies. Using sixteen in-depth case studies it provides a comparative framework for the study of contemporary process of privatization, economic andEarly Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness: An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis
By Thomas C. Dalton, Victor W. Bergenn. 2007
This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their…
capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a childs capacity to learn. In this interdisciplinaryOpen to the Public: Evaluation in the Public Sector (Comparative Policy Evaluation Ser.)
By Jonathan D. Breul. 2008
Open to the Public grows out of concern with evaluation in the public arena and the struggle to understand how…
best to use the information it generates. Many concepts and models of evaluation, how to undertake it, and how to make it more useful, were developed before government performance became of so much interest to the public. In fact, it is arguable that recent changes in the forms, shapes, structures, and media through which the information developed in the process of evaluation becomes public, require new ways of thinking about its role in society. What is the role of evaluative information in the public arena today? How, when, and under what circumstances does the actual use of evaluative information take place, and what are the forces at play? By compiling and comparing international case studies, this book considers forces that make the information produced in evaluations increasing ""open to the public."" They provide insights into the many factors that influence evaluation and its use in the public arena. Their case studies include such current topics as: ""spin doctoring"" of information by the media and this practice's relationship to evaluation studies, the hotly debated issue of school performance, and information about it aired in the public arena, and the controversial link between budget processing and government performance. This book will be invaluable to those conducting evaluations, public employees and commissioners, and those studying public administration.Group Counseling and Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice
By Zipora Shechtman. 2007
Many children and adolescents face developmental or situational difficulties in areas where they live most of their meaningful experiences-at home,…
at school, and in the community. While adults who struggle with life events and stressors may look to professional help, young individuals are quite alone in coping with these situations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most children and adolescents typically do not seek such help, and often resist it when offered. Author Zipora Shechtman has written this detailed text advocating group counseling and psychotherapy as a viable means of addressing these issues if we are to ensure the psychological wellness of children in society. Group Counseling and Psychotherapy With Children and Adolescents is arranged in four parts. Its chapters explore topics including:*who needs group counseling and psychotherapy;*therapeutic factors in children's groups;*activities in the group;*pre-group planning and forming a group; and*how to enhance emotional experiencing and group support. This text is a principal source of information for counseling psychology students, researchers, and practitioners working with young people, in addition to social workers, teachers, and parents.