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Integrates elements from agency theory and signaling theory and draws upon recent changes in the Australia payout policy and incentives pay for risk-averse employees to explain the paradox of the popularity of on-market stock buyback activities in a market environment characterized by reasonably high share prices.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to theory and modeling combined with state-of-the-art methodology. Contributions cover a broad range of topics including the links between monetary policy and capital market performance, micro- and macro- market structure and investors and issuers' behavior strategies.

This book condenses several theoretical, methodological, empirical, and philosophical issues in conceptualizing, measuring, and empirically operationalizing the economic output of the banking and insurance industries. The analytical focus is on both Global and Emerging Markets perspectives.

The Role of Crises in Shaping Financial Systems underscores the role of crises as turning points for the financial sector and its interactions with the real economy. It sheds new light on the financial industry through the lens of three recent crises - the global financial crisis, the sovereign debt crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Offers an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms of insurance market integration and measures the degree of this integration. Examines the operation of the EU single financial market and against this backdrop, the regulation relating to the insurance market, international insurance market development and issues with assimilation.

This book presents a collection of high-quality contributions on the state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analysis as it relates to financial risk management applications. It brings together, in one place, the latest thinking on an emerging topic and includes principles, reviews, examples, and research directions.

The book provides deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on information and communication technologies (ICT) as an important factor affecting financial markets.

This book contributes to the present state of knowledge, offering the reader broad evidence on how new digital technologies impact financial systems. It focuses on both macro- and micro-perspectives of ICT influence on financial markets.

This book provides an exhaustive review of the roles of expert systems within the financial sector, with particular reference to big data environments. It serves to stimulate the continued efforts of the application of intelligent systems that respond to the problem of big data processing in a smart banking and financial environment.

California was at the epicentre of the collapse of the real estate market in 2008, which had a devastating effect on the world economy. Taking this diverse and powerful state as a case study, Doti presents a financial history of the property business, analysing its fluctuations and offering suggestions for future preventative action.

"The conception of this volume had its origin in the Conference 'Responding to Crises in the Global Financial Environment - Risk Management and Regulation,' that took place in 2010 in Brussels at the National Bank of Belgium, and that was organized by the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH)"--Page vi

When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using primary sources in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. The book as a whole provides new insights into banking in imperial Asia and a platform for further research.

This book delves into the many innovative changes that the financial industry has undergone in recent years. The authors investigate these developments in a holistic manner and from a wide range of perspectives: both public and private, business and consumer, regulators and supervisors.