Product Description: This volume contains contemporary analysis of three key developments in financial economics: financial integration; the dynamics of financial markets; and the information, computer, and technology revolution and its impact on markets and the economic performance, among others...read more

Product Description: This volume analyzes in great detail the problem of information and risk management. Both topics are a central issue in current financial and monetary economic literature. Several recent theoretical and empirical contributions consider asymmetric information between investors and financiers as a major determinant of financial risk...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This collection of critiques provides an evaluation of the literature on finance, investment and innovation and proposes new methods for evaluating the comparative performance of financial systems in supporting innovation. The focus of the work remains on the relative effectiveness of national financial systems in supporting innovation and includes various proposals that allow the reader to evaluate the realative effectivenes of some individual country systems such as Japan, the UK and Italy...read more