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Advances in Financial Economics

Advances in Financial Economics, Volume 22 - The Many Faces of Corporate Finance - offers a timely, authoritative exploration of contemporary corporate financial decision-making in an increasingly complex global environment. Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of capital structure, dividends, and investment policy, the volume brings together cutting-edge research spanning corporate governance, international corporate finance, the corporate-political interface, and behavioural and cultural influences on financial decisions. By situating firms within the broader institutional, political, and international ecosystems in which they operate, the contributions collectively demonstrate how modern corporate finance is shaped by forces that transcend conventional analytical frameworks. Distinguished by its integrative approach, the volume consolidates high-quality theoretical and empirical scholarship that connects previously siloed areas of research. Emphasising methodological innovation and the use of novel data, it revisits foundational questions with fresh rigor while addressing emerging issues such as shareholder activism, regulatory change, and executive behavioural biases. At once cohesive and wide-ranging, this volume advances a more holistic understanding of corporate financial management and provides an essential resource for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners seeking insight into the evolving landscape of corporate finance.

The Many Faces of Corporate Finance

An open invitation to changemakers, educators, conscious consumers, and anyone interested in the creative economy to lean into this grassroots global community and help drive systems change. We live in an age where every convenience is a finger tap away, but historically marginalized communities and ecosystems are paying the price of unconscious consumption. Our current economic practices contribute to environmental damage, social injustice, and declining public trust. The solution, argues Stacey Edgar, social entrepreneur and executive director of the International Folk Art Market, is the artisan economy. In contrast to the profit-at-all-costs model of the mainstream economy, the artisan approach to production and consumption encourages creativity, preserves culture, and cultivates connection. In Artisan Economics, Edgar proposes a shift toward this artisan-centric model that prioritizes creativity, dignity, and community. Drawing on stories and research from around the world, she outlines eight core principles of the artisan economy—purpose, creativity, dignity, resistance, community, value, sustainability, and shared prosperity. She also shares a framework, called the Taproot Model of Systems Change, on which to enact these principles by restoring a vision of the economy as a living system. Ultimately, Edgar proposes, the artisan economy is a way to reconnect consumers with makers, foster sustainable growth, and create a more equitable and human-focused global economy. To create true connections across our global economy, we need a dramatic overhaul of what it means to work and what it means to consume.

Eight Principles to Craft a More Conscious, Collaborative, and Connected Future

Artisan Economics

A practical, clever, down-to-earth guide to making decisions big or small, fast—from writer, journalist, and nationally acclaimed decision coach Nell McShane Wulfhart. We are drowning in choices—from major life decisions like whether to move, marry, or change careers, to relentless daily dilemmas about what to wear, eat, say, or do. In a world that glorifies optimization and “smart” choices, we’ve wound up paralyzed, deferring, deliberating, and overthinking to the point of exhaustion.&nbsp; Decision-making has become a source of stress instead of empowerment. Nell McShane Wulfhart is here to change that. In Decide in an Hour, she tackles the epidemic of indecision head-on and offers readers a lifeline: the tools to make better choices quickly, without feeling guilty, spiraling, or second-guessing. In this book, Wulfhart teaches us how to: <ul><li>identify the decision we’re actually making (a shockingly common obstacle)</li><li>eliminate noise and make the call—fast</li><li>follow through with confidence, even when others disagree</li><li>make the most common major life choices (career, relationships, kids, where to live) through the use of a decision-making field guide</li></ul> Equal parts wise, warm, and no-nonsense, Decide in an Hour offers clarity and momentum for how to start making smart, confident decisions today.

A practical, clever, down-to-earth guide to making decisions big or small, fast—from writer, journalist, and nationally acclaimed decision coach Nell McShane Wulfhart. We are drowning in choices—from major life decisions like whether to move, marry, or change careers, to relentless daily dilemmas about what to wear, eat, say, or do. In a world that glorifies optimization and “smart” choices, we’ve wound up paralyzed, deferring, deliberating, and overthinking to the point of exhaustion.&nbsp; Decision-making has become a source of stress instead of empowerment. Nell McShane Wulfhart is here to change that. In Decide in an Hour, she tackles the epidemic of indecision head-on and offers readers a lifeline: the tools to make better choices quickly, without feeling guilty, spiraling, or second-guessing. In this book, Wulfhart teaches us how to: <ul><li>identify the decision we’re actually making (a shockingly common obstacle)</li><li>eliminate noise and make the call—fast</li><li>follow through with confidence, even when others disagree</li><li>make the most common major life choices (career, relationships, kids, where to live) through the use of a decision-making field guide</li></ul> Equal parts wise, warm, and no-nonsense, Decide in an Hour offers clarity and momentum for how to start making smart, confident decisions today.

The Handbook for Making Better Decisions Faster

Decide in an Hour

“Seddon and Imsirovic provide a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the actors, institutions, and conflicts that make up the ‘pay-to-play’ governance system of the Brent price benchmark. Their book deserves to be widely read.”
 —William Boyd
 , Michael J. Klein Chair in Law, UCLA
 
 “
 The Governed Price of Oil
 is a lighthouse for understanding prices, the heart of markets, and the organizing force of contemporary economies. A must read for understanding economies revolving around the sun of prices.”
 —Koray Çalışkan
 , The New School, and author of 
 Market Threads
 “‘Prices are made, not found’—the key argument of this fascinating study. Seddon and Imsirovic take us behind the scenes of oil prices of huge economic and geopolitical significance.”
 —Donald MacKenzie
 , University of Edinburgh, and author of 
 
 An Engine, Not a Camera
 
 The price of oil is not discovered—it is made. Benchmarks like Brent crude are produced for profit, from information supplied by the very firms with an interest in shaping them. How can such a price be trusted, and who governs it?
 
 This book argues that benchmark authority rests on a “pay-to-play” bargain: firms bear the costs of price making because access confers influence, information, and trading advantage, while governors such as Platts and ICE set the rules. Those rules must channel traders’ opportunism, not eliminate it—too little latitude and participation withers; too much and the system curdles into manipulation. Comparing Brent with rival benchmarks, enduring and failed, and combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and insider interviews, this book reveals how the price that moves the world economy is actually made.
 Jack Seddon
 is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Waseda University, Japan. A former capital markets lawyer, he holds an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published widely on market structure and governance.
 Adi Imsirovic
 lectures on the Master’s in Energy Systems at the University of Oxford and is a Senior Associate at CSIS, Washington. With 35 years in oil trading—including as global head of oil at Gazprom Marketing &amp; Trading—he has authored several books on international oil markets.

"This timely and important book reveals how one of the world's most important prices—the Brent Crude oil price benchmark—is made. Seddon and Imsirovic provide a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the actors, institutions, and conflicts that make up the 'pay-to-play' governance system of the Brent price benchmark. Their book deserves to be widely read."— William Boyd
 , Michael J. Klein Chair in Law, UCLA
 &nbsp;
 "The 
 Governed Price of Oil
 is a lighthouse for understanding prices, the heart of markets and the organizing force of contemporary economies. It shows us that prices are not set but made, governed, and contested. A must-read for understanding economies revolving around the sun of prices."
 — Koray Çalışkan
 , The New School, author of 
 Market Threads&nbsp;"'Prices are made, not found'—that's the key argument of this fascinating study. Combining insider interviews, econometric modelling and political-economy insights, Seddon and Imsirovic take us behind the scenes of the setting of benchmark oil prices that are of huge economic and geopolitical significance."— Donald MacKenzie
 , University of Edinburgh, author of 
 An Engine, Not a Camera 
 The price of oil is not discovered—it is made. Benchmarks like Brent crude are produced for profit, from information supplied by the very firms with an interest in shaping them. How can such a price be trusted, and who governs it?
 This book argues that benchmark authority rests on a “pay-to-play” bargain: firms bear the costs of price making because access confers influence, information, and trading advantage, while governors such as Platts and ICE set the rules. Those rules must channel traders’ opportunism, not eliminate it—too little latitude and participation withers; too much and the system curdles into manipulation. Comparing Brent with rival benchmarks, enduring and failed, and combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and insider interviews, this book reveals how the price that moves the world economy is actually made.

Power, Rules and the Making of the Brent Benchmark

The Governed Price of Oil

Law, Development, and Practice

Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia

Why Britain's energy path gave rise to an ideology of endless growth Despite the warnings of climate scientists, the world remains dangerously addicted to fossil fuel. Why has it been so difficult to break this habit? In a major new account, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson suggests that the planetary emergency has profound historical roots reaching back to the making of the first fossil fuel economy in eighteenth-century Britain. Rather than look for a single dramatic rupture centered on the steam-powered factory system, in Infinite Coal Albritton Jonsson shows that there was a much more gradual and multidimensional development of the first coal economy, stretching from the deep mine and ironworks to the household and the global food system. Albritton Jonsson explores not only the material forces behind the British energy path but also how ideas about fossil fuel energy reoriented politics and society toward a new ideal of growth. At the same time an environmental and political history of Britain’s energy transformation, Infinite Coal explains why and how coal became so deeply embedded in our way of life. Albritton Jonsson argues that the most important legacy of Britain’s early fossil fuel economy is fossil cornucopianism—the idea of a bountiful, never-ending energy source—which still haunts modern politics and economics.

How Britain Became the First Fossil Fuel Economy

Infinite Coal

“I really enjoyed reading this. Robert Ippaso covers inflation from Hammurabi to COVID-19 in an entertaining manner, illustrating the social impact—including the reactionary impacts—of inflation. The book provides a wealth of information about inflation. Eager readers: Be prepared to take the book page by page, section by section. This is a great book.”—Bryan Taylor, Chief Economist, Finaeon Inc. and author of 
 A Global History of Currencies
 &nbsp;
 Inflation, Its Victims, and Its Profiteers&nbsp; examines four millennia of monetary turbulence to show that inflation is neither modern nor mysterious—merely humanity's oldest recurring argument between what things cost and what people will accept.Tracing price instability from Mesopotamian grain edicts to twenty-first-century currency crises, the book identifies the patterns that connect ancient debasement, wartime finance, and contemporary policy failures. Economic incentives, political pressures, and the enduring irrationality of human behaviour collectively shape every inflationary episode — and history suggests today's are no more unprecedented than they feel.Seven sections move from conceptual foundations to forensic case studies: how industries from automotive manufacturing to oil have adapted; how criminal networks thrive in inflationary environments; how professions insulate themselves from monetary erosion; how central banking, dollarization, and digital currencies have each promised stability with mixed results. The centrepiece surveys inflation crises across civilisations — Mesopotamia to modern Latin America — before a closing chapter projects likely trajectories in developed economies over the next quarter-century.A book for anyone who suspects that rising prices deserve more than a newspaper column — and that the past has rather more to say about the present than policymakers prefer to admit.&nbsp;Robert Ippaso
 is an economist, economic historian, and international entrepreneur whose four decades of business experience across six continents inform his reading of inflation as a living force rather than an academic abstraction. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a BA (Hons) in Economics and Economic History.

Inflation, Its Victims, and Its Profiteers&nbsp; examines four millennia of monetary turbulence to show that inflation is neither modern nor mysterious—merely humanity's oldest recurring argument between what things cost and what people will accept.Tracing price instability from Mesopotamian grain edicts to twenty-first-century currency crises, the book identifies the patterns that connect ancient debasement, wartime finance, and contemporary policy failures. Economic incentives, political pressures, and the enduring irrationality of human behaviour collectively shape every inflationary episode — and history suggests today's are no more unprecedented than they feel.Seven sections move from conceptual foundations to forensic case studies: how industries from automotive manufacturing to oil have adapted; how criminal networks thrive in inflationary environments; how professions insulate themselves from monetary erosion; how central banking, dollarization, and digital currencies have each promised stability with mixed results. The centrepiece surveys inflation crises across civilisations — Mesopotamia to modern Latin America — before a closing chapter projects likely trajectories in developed economies over the next quarter-century.A book for anyone who suspects that rising prices deserve more than a newspaper column — and that the past has rather more to say about the present than policymakers prefer to admit.

Four Millennia of Crises and Stabilizations

Inflation, Its Victims, and Its Profiteers

This eleventh edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales.With significant changes over the last few years to everything from a focus on building safety, streamlined planning law to new details on the provision of toilets in buildings other than dwellings there are changes aplenty and this eleventh edition is as up to date as we can possibly make it, incorporating changes to Building Safety Act, Future Homes Standard, the National Planning Policy Framework, planning reforms, planning fees, permitted development rights and new requirements for safety improvements and technology which have resulted in changes to Approved Documents B, F, L, M, R, S and T. Giving practical information throughout on how to work with (and within) the Regulations, this book enables compliance in the simplest and most cost-effective manner possible. The no-nonsense approach of Building Regulations in Brief cuts through any confusion and explains the meaning of the Regulations. Consequently, it has become a favourite for anyone working in or studying the building industry, as well as those planning to have work carried out on their home. It is essential reading for all building contractors and subcontractors, site engineers, building engineers, building control officers, building surveyors, architects, construction site managers and DIYers.

Building Regulations in Brief

This book provides a state-of-the art picture of the transformation of the global legal market. The traditional business model of law firms has been upended by new forms of organisation, often (but not exclusively) brought about by technological innovation and the use of technology for the execution of legal activities, which implies the so-called 'servitisation' of the legal market. Such trends raise a broad range of questions of both practical and academic nature, which the book tackles extensively, relying on the competence of a remarkable group of experts, coming from different professional backgrounds and knowledgeable of many different jurisdictions, from Europe to the USA, from Asia to Australia. In particular, the book has three main focuses: 1) a law and economics analysis of today's legal market, combined with a description of how regulatory changes have had an impact on competition in the legal services business, and on the evolution of this industry; 2) a thorough investigation of the impact of technological disruptions on the legal services industry, considering how legal tech companies and artificial intelligence solutions are reshaping the activities of legal professionals and the legal market more broadly; 3) a survey of the "new lawyers" and other new legal professionals, along with a reflection on the reforms needed to align their education with market needs.The book caters to all those interested, professionally or academically, in keeping track of the evolution of the legal services market. Practising lawyers who want to be "future-proof", law students, new specialised legal professionals active in the business and financial sectors, scholars and other researchers (both lawyers and economists) conducting research in the field, as well as anyone engaged in providing legal education, will find in this book extremely valuable insights on current trends and future developments in the legal market.

How Innovation, Legal Tech and AI Have Been Reshaping the Legal Market

Future-Proof Legal Services

New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives

The primary objective of this book is to address a formal representation of household economy in welfare economics in spatial terms. Although it has been argued since the nineteenth century that in exploring a reasonable indicator to measure the real welfare level of households, several difficulties remain to be faced in economic theory. The most relevant method in this specific topic is social welfare function. While various types of indicators were historically developed and improved as a replacement of existing economic growth indicators such as GDP and GRP using social welfare function, there still is a problem with evaluating the individual's utility as an aggregate term. As an alternative method of measuring the real welfare level of households, location theory may be a possibility for solving some potentially problematic issues. To be precise, location theory requires the inclusion of notions of transportation costs, spatially constrained internal and external economies, and other distance-related variables. From the standpoint of equality, this specific approach enables an analysis to investigate spatial differentiation. In other words, spatial differentiation of households can be interpreted as spatial consumer exclusion. Hence, the real welfare level of households can be measured by means of the accessibility of goods and services, of which there are several types, such as essential and luxury ones. As a result, spatial distribution of goods and services depending on their types can be considered a component of social welfare function. The topics addressed in the book include social welfare function in spatial terms, location theory related to firms and households, attractiveness of regions, economic and social infrastructure elements, and sustainable growth and development of regions.

The primary objective of this book is to address a formal representation of household economy in welfare economics in spatial terms. Although it has been argued since the nineteenth century that in exploring a reasonable indicator to measure the real welfare level of households, several difficulties remain to be faced in economic theory. The most relevant method in this specific topic is social welfare function. While various types of indicators were historically developed and improved as a replacement of existing economic growth indicators such as GDP and GRP using social welfare function, there still is a problem with evaluating the individual’s utility as an aggregate term. As an alternative method of measuring the real welfare level of households, location theory may be a possibility for solving some potentially problematic issues. To be precise, location theory requires the inclusion of notions of transportation costs, spatially constrained internal and external economies, and other distance-related variables. From the standpoint of equality, this specific approach enables an analysis to investigate spatial differentiation. In other words, spatial differentiation of households can be interpreted as spatial consumer exclusion. Hence, the real welfare level of households can be measured by means of the accessibility of goods and services, of which there are several types, such as essential and luxury ones. As a result, spatial distribution of goods and services depending on their types can be considered a component of social welfare function. The topics addressed in the book include social welfare function in spatial terms, location theory related to firms and households, attractiveness of regions, economic and social infrastructure elements, and sustainable growth and development of regions.&nbsp;

As a Measure of Social Welfare Function

Attractiveness of Regions and Sustainable Regional Economic System

Das Ehrenamt - Engagement zielgerichtet fördern und stärken.

Innovationen im Ehrenamt sind dringend notwendig. Nicht nur demographische Veränderungen, sondern auch ein weitreichender Wertewandel führen zum Vereinssterben in unseren Kommunen. Es gilt, ehrenamtliches Engagement zu sichern und zu fördern und gleichzeitig Vereine zu stärken. Hier sind nicht nur die Büger:innen gefragt, sondern auch die Gemeinden selbst. Wie kann das Ehrenamt konkret gestärkt und wie können die Menschen zur Übernahme von Verantwortung in Vereinsvorständen motiviert werden? Welche Möglichkeiten haben die Kommunen, formell und informell mit Vereinen, Bürgerinitiativen und Interessengemeinschaften zu kooperieren?

Prof. Dr. Oliver Junk ist Professor für Kommunalrecht an der Hochschule Harz. Ehrenamtlich ist er Vorsitzender des Harzklubs e. V. In seinem Forschungsprojekt "VITAL" untersucht er aktuell in einem Zeitraum von zwei Jahren die Gelingensbedingungen für gute Kooperationen zwischen Kommunen und Ehrenamt und erstellt praxistaugliche Handlungsempfehlungen für Kommunen und Vereine.

Handbuch Ehrenamt - Engagement fördern und stärken

Neue ökonomische Grundrisse

The second edition of this instructive and thought-provoking guide to the theory and practice of corporate financial decision making has been completely revised and up-dated. In particular, the many and varied changes to financial and capital markets have been worked into the application-orientated chapters together with additional diagrams and tables. The book's chapters on theoretical models have been enhanced with further examples, each ending with a practical exercise the solution to which will be made available online.
 

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Unternehmensfinanzierung und Kapitalmarkt

Craft Ecosystems across Europe

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