Financial Markets and Sovereign Wealth Funds
E-Book, Englisch, 413 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-12-801101-0
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
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Devotes significant attention to the systematic risk created by banks' exposure to links between real estate and other sectors Explores the implications implicit in the expansion of sovereign funds and the growth of the hedge fund and real estate fund management industries Investigates the innovations in technology that have ushered in faster capital flow and larger trading volumes
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Raj Aggarwal is the Sullivan Professor of International Business and Finance at the College of Business Administration, University of Akron, USA. He has authored or coauthored over a dozen books/monographs and over a hundred scholarly papers in the finance and international business areas. Before the University of Akron, he has been a faculty member at Harvard, Michigan, South Carolina, Kent State, and John Carroll. He has won university-wide Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Faculty awards for excellence in teaching and in scholarship. His scholarly leadership is widely recognized and he has been elected as one of the few Fellows of the Academy of International Business. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar for South-east Asia and has been a Visiting Scholar at Universities in Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Sweden. He has been the finance area editor for the Journal of International Business Studies and is the editor in chief of the Journal of Teaching International Business. He has held many elected and appointed leadership positions in academia and in business. For example, he has been the elected president of the Eastern Finance Association and serves on selected business and non-profit boards including Manco Inc (Duck, LePage, and Loctite brands), Ancora Mutual Funds, Financial Management Association, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs, and the Financial Executives Research Foundation. He has been a consultant to the UN, the World Bank, US SEC, Fortune 100 companies. Jonathan A. Batten is a Professor of Banking and Finance at Monash University. He has numerous publications in financial market development, financial econometrics, fixed income markets, and non-linear dynamics. He is the editor of Emerging Markets Review, Associate Editor of Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, and Research in International Business and Finance, and special issue editor for International Review of Financial Analysis. Jane Binner is Chair of Finance in the Accounting and Finance Department at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. She was formerly Head of Accounting and Financial Management, The University of Sheffield, UK. She serves as an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis on monetary aggregate construction. Her research interests primarily include the construction and interpretation of Divisia monetary aggregates and the application of artificial intelligence techniques in Business and Economics. Kym Brown is a lecturer at Monash University specializing in banking. Her Ph.D. undertaken at Monash University examined the financial development of 12 economies across the Asia Pacific, and bank cost and profit efficiency allowing for regional differences. Her research includes bank performance, financial system architecture in developing countries, Islamic finance, corporate governance, bank liquidity, and syndicated loans. Chia-Ling Chang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Economics, Chen-Chi University, Taiwan. In 2011 August, she was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics from the National Chen-Chi University, Taiwan. She specializes in agent-based modeling and computational economics. Her key publications are in the area of agent-based computational macroeconomics and agent-based computational finance. Helena Chuliá is a lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Barcelona. She holds a Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance and she was Visiting Research faculty at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in 2006 and at Humboldt University in 2011. She has published in refereed journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, the European Journal of Finance, the Journal of Futures Markets, European Financial Management, and Energy Economics. Her current areas of interest are on applied econometrics, portfolio management, and international finance. Gemma Esther B. Estrada is an Economics Officer in the Macroeconomics and Finance Research Division of the Economics and Research Department at the Asian Development Bank. Her recent research has been on structural change, old-age security, and trade and economic integration. She also works on the Asian Development Outlook, an annual flagship publication of ADB. John W. Goodell is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Akron. His research interests focus particularly on the impact on financial systems of national culture and institutions. In 2011 he received the Stockholm School of Economics/Women in the Academy of International Business Award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research. His recent work has been discussed in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is currently the Assistant Editor of Journal of Teaching in International Business and serves on the board of the Southwestern Finance Association. Wolfgang Karl Härdle obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics at University of Heidelberg in 1982 and in 1988 completed his Habilitation at the University of Bonn. He is currently chair and Professor of Statistics at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, and Director of Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics and Center for Applied Statistics and Economics (CASE). He is also coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center “Economic Risk.” His research focuses on dimension reduction techniques, computational statistics, and quantitative finance. His papers have appeared in top statistical, econometrics, and finance journals. He is one of the “Highly cited Scientist” according to the Institute of Scientific Information. Kin-Yip Ho is currently an Assistant Professor at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies, and Applied Statistics in The Australian National University. He has held visiting positions, including a fellowship from the Korea Institute of International Economic Policy (KIEP) to work on a research project involving the Chinese financial markets. He has published articles in Thomson Reuters SSCI/SCI journals, such as China Economic Review, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, and World Economy. His current research interests lie in international finance, financial econometrics, and time-series analysis. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and an Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from London College of Music. Yuwei Hu is currently China Representative (Pensions and Insurance) of BBVA Group in Beijing. Prior to BBVA he was briefly with European Commission as Visiting Fellow. Between 2006 and 2009 he worked as Economist at OECD and, was responsible for advising Chinese government on various economic and regulatory matters, including sovereign and pension fund issues. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Brunel University, UK, and was a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University in 2005. As China expert, he has provided technical assistance to various international organizations, including ASEAN, IMF, and World Bank among others. He is also special research fellow to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Logan Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the director of the UWRF Center for Economic Research at University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA, and is a research affiliate at the Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany. His research interests include applied macroeconomics, monetary economics, and measurement theory. Heeho Kim, Ph.D. is a Professor of Economics at Kyungpook National University, Korea, and his main research areas are economic development, international economics, and finance, and econometrics. His book entitled and Markets of Slaves and Land in the 17th–19th century Korea was awarded the best academic book in 2006-2007 in Korea by the Ministry of Culture. In addition, Heeho has published several books in the fields of international economics and economic history of Korea. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University and worked as a program manager for the Korea National Research Foundation. He was invited as a research fellow to the Institute of Finance and Economics, which is part of the Chinese Social Science Institute (CSSI) based in Beijing, China. He sits on several boards of academic journals, including the Eurasian Economic Review and the Korean Journal of International Economics. He has published more than 50 articles and books in well-known international journals. Francis Koh is a Professor of Finance (Practice) at the Singapore Management University (SMU). He received his MBA from the University of British Columbia and Ph.D. (Finance) from the University of New South Wales. He is a Chartered Accountant of Singapore and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in UK. Between 1994 and 2002, Francis was employed by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. In 2003, he was appointed Associate Dean and Director, MSc in Wealth Management Programme in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. In November 2012, he assumed the post of Vice Provost (Special Projects) at SMU. In the same year, Francis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Economics by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He has been active in consulting, executive development, and public service. He has also published in numerous academic...
