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Principles of Business Finance
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation by ISBN: 9781942341253Publication Date: 2016-04-04This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study.
International Finance: Theory and Policy by ISBN: 9781936126460Publication Date: 2010Begins with an historical overview of the international macroeconomy to provide context for the theory. Concludes with a detailed discussion of the pros and cons of fixed and floating exchange rate systems. Provides an extensive look at the issue of trade imbalances. Readers learn techniques to evaluate whether a country's trade deficit (or surplus) is dangerous, beneficial, or benign. Explains how purchasing power parity is used to make cross country income comparisons. Offers clear detailed explanations of the AA-DD model. Applies the AA-DD model to understand the effects of monetary and fiscal policy on GDP, the exchange rate, and the trade balance.
Introduction to Financial Mathematics: Concepts and Computational Methods by Publication Date: 2019Introduction to Financial Mathematics: Concepts and Computational Methods serves as a primer in financial mathematics with a focus on conceptual understanding of models and problem solving. It includes the mathematical background needed for risk management, such as probability theory, optimization, and the like. The goal of the book is to expose the reader to a wide range of basic problems, some of which emphasize analytic ability, some requiring programming techniques and others focusing on statistical data analysis. In addition, it covers some areas which are outside the scope of mainstream financial mathematics textbooks. For example, it presents marginal account setting by the CCP and systemic risk, and a brief overview of the model risk. Inline exercises and examples are included to help students prepare for exams on this book.
Legal Aspects of Corporate Management & Finance by ISBN: 9781453343258Publication Date: 2012After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, agency law, partnerships, corporations, commercial paper, debtors and creditors. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy students will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
- Public Economics MIT Open CoursewareThis course covers theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.
- Corpwatch: Holding Corporations AccountableThe CorpWatch site is a collection of articles examining the role corporations play in the United States and the world today. The site is organized by issue (including consumerism, the environment, executive compensation, human rights, trade justice, and more) as well as by type of industry (chemical industry, tobacco industry, tourism and real estate industry, etc.). Under each category, the site provides recent news articles from major publications (e.g., the New York Times), articles written specifically for CorpWatch, and links to relevant entries on the CorpWatch blog. There is also a search function that can be used to pull up articles on more specific topics within these broad categories. The site also provides a guide to using CorpWatch and other online sources to do research on corporations, whether for personal use or for school assignments.