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This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era. The book aims on tackling urban challenges on social and environmental issues. The book is a compilation of selected papers from the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era (icRS Urbanisation 2020). The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, practitioners in the industry and policymakers of respective authorities. Readers will also encounter new ideas for realising a better sustainable development for urbanisation.
This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era. The book aims on tackling urban challenges on social and environmental issues. The book is a compilation of selected papers from the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era (icRS Urbanisation 2020). The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, practitioners in the industry and policymakers of respective authorities. Readers will also encounter new ideas for realising a better sustainable development for urbanisation.
How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures? To answer this question, this book draws on the results of a longitudinal research project covering the development of the pharmaceutical distribution industry in China from 2004 to 2012, focusing on the emergence and subsequent evolution of industry-wide information infrastructures. How do firms delimit areas of proprietary innovation in open innovation projects? How do firms coordinate, initiate, negotiate and implement the development of innovative infrastructures? How do processes and practices within firms enable and constrain such collective efforts? - This book provides answers to these questions and draws conclusions regarding the challenges and new capabilities that firms will need in a world in which participation in the building of open information infrastructures becomes a necessary task for commercial organizations.
This book features state-of-the-art studies on the responsible innovation management. It illustrates the innovative methods from socio-economic and sustainable development dimensions and specifically mentions digitalisation's dark side, technology application challenges and enterprises management issues. The selected works contain enormous new case studies exploring ways to improve the development of related industries from responsible innovation perspectives. It covers about the multidisciplinary areas, and hence, it fosters close collaboration between researchers in diverse fields such as social science, economics and engineering. Researchers, corporate executives and engineers in these areas can benefit from the book.
The Economics of Banking (4th Edition) addresses the need for a user-friendly and mathematically accessible textbook that describes and explains the behavior of banks by examining trends and operations in banking within a microeconomic framework. It provides a sound theoretical basis for understanding bank behavior and requires only a basic knowledge of microeconomics. The book is aimed at final year undergraduates, taking a Banking & Finance degree and to MBA and specialized PG degrees in Finance that includes a Banking option. The book covers a wide range of topics, including global trends in banking and prospects for the future, retail and wholesale banking, theory of the banking firm, economics analysis of bank behavior, risk management, securitization, structure and competition of banking, efficiency, benchmarking and performance, loan pricing and credit rationing, bank regulation, money laundering, central bank policy, and the macroeconomics of banking.The fourth edition examines the challenge of Fintech and non-bank financing to the banking market. It examines the implications of the digitization of the means of payment on the banking system and the emergence of the digital bank. Additional material on bank typology includes recent developments in shadow banking, P2P, and Islamic banking. International banking will examine economic and political pressures in HQ location, regulatory arbitrage, and interface with investment banking. The section on credit rationing and credit pricing includes additional material on crowdfunding and models of credit provision by non-bank institutions in China, Russia, and other emerging markets. Bank regulation has been updated to examine the recent changes in USA, EU, UK, and global bank regulation. The macroeconomics of banking takes in the implications of zero interest rate policy on bank profitability and risk behavior.
The Economics of Banking (4th Edition) addresses the need for a user-friendly and mathematically accessible textbook that describes and explains the behavior of banks by examining trends and operations in banking within a microeconomic framework. It provides a sound theoretical basis for understanding bank behavior and requires only a basic knowledge of microeconomics. The book is aimed at final year undergraduates, taking a Banking & Finance degree and to MBA and specialized PG degrees in Finance that includes a Banking option. The book covers a wide range of topics, including global trends in banking and prospects for the future, retail and wholesale banking, theory of the banking firm, economics analysis of bank behavior, risk management, securitization, structure and competition of banking, efficiency, benchmarking and performance, loan pricing and credit rationing, bank regulation, money laundering, central bank policy, and the macroeconomics of banking.The fourth edition examines the challenge of Fintech and non-bank financing to the banking market. It examines the implications of the digitization of the means of payment on the banking system and the emergence of the digital bank. Additional material on bank typology includes recent developments in shadow banking, P2P, and Islamic banking. International banking will examine economic and political pressures in HQ location, regulatory arbitrage, and interface with investment banking. The section on credit rationing and credit pricing includes additional material on crowdfunding and models of credit provision by non-bank institutions in China, Russia, and other emerging markets. Bank regulation has been updated to examine the recent changes in USA, EU, UK, and global bank regulation. The macroeconomics of banking takes in the implications of zero interest rate policy on bank profitability and risk behavior.
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