Distributional Analysis of Tax Policy
This book provides numerous essays that explore ways to refine the use of tax-burden tables in making tax policy.
Low Risk Rules
You can't build wealth without risk. But protecting it is a different matter.Congratulations, you've made it! You risked it all, and now you're reaping the rewards of all your hard work. New investment opportunities are coming at you from all directions, with promises of high returns and big rewards. It seems like you can't lose. Or can you?Before you dive in, take a breath. The high-risk, high-reward mindset may have brought your entrepreneurial ambitions to fruition, but when it comes to building and sustaining the legacy of your wealth, that no-holds-barred approach can make for an unpleasant-and unnecessary-crash and burn. Let cooler heads prevail.In Low Risk Rules, wealth manager Geoff Saab delivers a manifesto against expensive, complex, illiquid investments being marketed and sold to unsuspecting clients, and makes the case for high-net-worth and family investors to embrace a back-to-basics approach to wealth management.In this call to arms for rational, purpose-driven investing and management, he empowers you to take charge of your wealth by ignoring the noise of financial markets. You'll learn to cultivate an investment mindset based on simple, tested, and clear strategies that support investor conviction and that have been shown, time after time, to increase the odds of long-term success. Informed by research proving that a low-risk approach generates superior investment returns over time, this approach will empower you to create a more meaningful life that enriches those around you. Releasing yourself from the futility of chasing ever-higher returns, you'll make room for more wealth, managed with intention. Ultimately, you'll discover that your material success is not the end of your story. It's the beginning.
Exchange Rate Policy for Mercosur: - Lessons from the European Union
In January 1995, four Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay joined their destinies within a common and ambitious enterprise called MERCOSUR. MERCOSUR, the Common Market of the South, represents an important economic integration area that generates a GDP of $US 600 billion, providing a market of 200 million people spread over an area of 12 million square km. Initially, MERCOSUR performance has been more than successful, as intra-MERCOSUR trade has increased significantly. However, the elimination of intra-MERCOSUR tariffs will not be efficient if at the same time the sharp variability of nominal exchange rates artificially affects the relative prices of different products. The question as to the choice of the optimal exchange rate system to be adopted among MERCOSUR countries becomes critical if MERCOSUR states attempt to go further along the path of increasing their trade flows of goods and services. The study contributes to filling this gap by providing some alternative answers to this issue. The analysis has been based on three pillars: a theoretical review of exchange rate systems; a review of the European experience; and an analysis of the Latin American experience.
Autism Friendly Cities
Access. Inclusion. Diversity. All people deserve to be embraced by their community. Autism Friendly Cities: How to Create an Inclusive Community is the first book designed to guide city leadership and staff through the processes of training and evaluation, development, and implementation of an Autism Friendly initiative that will help you open your doors to everyone. People with autism should be able to participate in all that is offered and facilitated by their city, including services, activities, events, and points of connection. Being an Autism Friendly City is not only socially responsible, it will improve engagement, outreach, economic development, and resident satisfaction.
Putting It Through the Company
This brand new guide answers one of the most frequently asked tax planning questions: "What can I get my company to pay for?"Putting It Through the Company answers this question by examining the rules for dozens of different tax deductions, including: Directors expenses (travel and subsistence, entertainment, fees and subscriptions, home office costs etc)The most tax-efficient way to pay yourself salary, dividends, and other income this yearEmploying your children and other family membersOver 30 tax-efficient benefits the company can provide to you and your employeesTax relief for capital spending on equipment, computers, furniture, you name it. There's a dazzling array of allowances available at the momentMotoring costs - the tax savings are astounding for company vans and electric cars What you can claim if you work from home Property costs you can put through the companyPlus lots and lots more: things like waiting room sofas, TVs, vacuum cleaners, fridges, coffee machines, advertising and sponsorship, website and internet costs...The guide focuses on some of the less obvious stuff and provides a plain English guide to the rule that lies at the heart of nearly all business deductions: they must be "incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of the business". It also looks at the issue of recovering VAT on company expenses.
Algorithmic Finance: A Companion to Data Science
Why is data science a branch of science? Is data science just a catchy rebranding of statistics?Data science provides tools for statistical analysis and machine learning. But, as much as application problems without tools are lame, tools without application problems are vain. Through example after example, this book presents the algorithmic aspects of statistics and show how some of the tools are applied to answer questions of interest to finance.This book champions a fundamental principle of science -- objective reproducibility of evidence independently by others. From a companion web site, readers can download many easy-to-understand Python programs and real-world data. Independently, readers can draw for themselves the figures in the book. Even so, readers are encouraged to run the statistical tests described as examples to verify their own results against what the book claims.This book covers some topics that are seldom discussed in other textbooks. They include the methods to adjust for dividend payment and stock splits, how to reproduce a stock market index such as Nikkei 225 index, and so on. By running the Python programs provided, readers can verify their results against the data published by free data resources such as Yahoo! finance. Though practical, this book provides detailed proofs of propositions such as why certain estimators are unbiased, how the ubiquitous normal distribution is derived from the first principles, and so on.This see-for-yourself textbook is essential to anyone who intends to learn the nuts and bots of data science, especially in the application domain of finance. Advanced readers may find the book helpful in its mathematical treatment. Practitioners may find some tips from the book on how an ETF is constructed, as well as some insights on a novel algorithmic framework for pair trading to generate statistical arbitrage.
Conceptualizing the Regulatory Thicket
This book examines the regulatory framework, regulatory objectives, regulatory logics, regulatory instruments, regulatory failures, and regulatory responses in China's financial market after the global financial crisis. The book provides an in-depth analysis of China's contemporary financial regulatory system, focusing on risks, regulation, and policies in practice. By drawing on public and private interest theories relating to financial regulation, the book contends that the controlled development of the banking sector, and the financial sector generally, has transformed China's banks into more market-oriented institutions and increased public sector growth. However, China's financial market and financial regulation have some inherent weaknesses and deficiencies. This book also offers insights into how this can be improved or adapted to minimize systemic risks in China's financial sector. This book tries to prove that financial regulation is not just a vehicle for maintaining efficient financial markets but a primary tool through which the Chinese government achieves its political and economic objectives. More fundamentally, according to the law and finance theory, strong market and vibrant judicial systems are needed to further modernize China's financial markets and market economy.The book will be a useful reference for anyone interested in learning from the Chinese experience.
Spaces for Highly Mobile People
This book explores how emerging mobility practices have transformed spaces in order to fit the needs of highly mobile people, as well as the changing relationship between people and territory.
Tax Sovereignty and the Law in the Digital and Global Economy
This book discusses which is the most appropriate tax dimension to best manage the new horizons of the global and digital economy.
Risk in the Film Business
This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen.
Management of Foreign Exchange Risk
This book provides a technical and specialised discussion of contemporary and emerging issues in foreign exchange and financial markets by addressing the issues of risk management and theory and hypothesis development, which have general implications for finance theory and foreign exchange market management. It offers an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of the issues concerning the volatility of exchange rates.The book has three main objectives. First, it applies the integrated study of exchange rate volatility in terms of depth and breadth. Second, it applies the integrated study of exchange rate volatility in Malaysia, as a case study of a developing country. Malaysia had imposed capital control measures in the past and has now liberalised its exchange rate market and will continue to liberalise it further in the long run. Hence, the need to understand exchange rate volatility measurement and management will be even more important in the future. Third, the book highlights new conditional volatility models for a developing country, such as Malaysia, and develops advanced econometric models which have produced results for sound risk management strategies and for achieving risk management in the financial market and the economy. Additionally, the authors recommend risk management themes which may be of relevance to other developing countries.This work can be used as a reference book by fund managers, financial market analysts, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers and postgraduate students in the areas of finance, accounting, business and financial economics. It can also be a supplementary text for Ph.D. and Masters' students in these areas.
A History of the Credit Market in Central Europe
This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period and is essential reading for postgraduates, researchers and academics in financial, economic and historical sciences.
Wealth on the Beach
Do you often dream of a life with more freedom, choices and options?Do you sometimes feel like giving up because you think that success is only for those select few?If you answered "YES" to either of those questions, all is not lost.You see, the vision is there for those who dare to see it. I want you to stop and think. Start with the end in mind and focus on your end goal. Your thirst for success and ambition to break free from the system must be your driving factor. You must stay hungry and stay aware. Be aware of how you have been trapped in false paradigms and ways of life that are actually stopping you from living. This is how you will create your vision; this is how you will reach your goals... and this is how you will achieve TOTAL FINANCIAL FREEDOM!WEALTH ON THE BEACH is a state of mind. It is an understanding that you can too can get everything you have wished for. Ever relaxed on a beautiful beach hearing the waves crashing and thought, "I can do this forever?" Maybe you were in a mountain retreat sitting in front of a cozy fire with zero money stress. Wealth on the Beach means different things to different people. We all have our desires. This book will give you the ideas and tools necessary to live your dream, your way.What you will learn in this book... 1. Why some people are successful while most struggle through life.2. Why the leaders get all the goodies.3. How to create massive, passive income so you can live life on your terms.4. To start living more and working less.5. How to make your yearly salary, monthly!Daniel Alonzo has been mentoring, changing lives and creating entrepreneurs all over the world for 25 years! His sole purpose and mission is to enable others to build freedom through wealth creation.CHANGE YOUR LIFE TODAY!Wealth on the Beach was written for anyone that's trying to get their fair share out of this life! By applying his proven process, with todays technology getting yours is more attainable than ever. You can't erase the past, you can't rewind time but you can create a future that will give you all that you desire! Do it now.
Undergraduate Introduction to Financial Mathematics, an (Fourth Edition)
Anyone with an interest in learning about the mathematical modeling of prices of financial derivatives such as bonds, futures, and options can start with this book, whereby the only mathematical prerequisite is multivariable calculus. The necessary theory of interest, statistical, stochastic, and differential equations are developed in their respective chapters, with the goal of making this introductory text as self-contained as possible.In this edition, the chapters on hedging portfolios and extensions of the Black-Scholes model have been expanded. The chapter on optimizing portfolios has been completely re-written to focus on the development of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. The binomial model due to Cox-Ross-Rubinstein has been enlarged into a standalone chapter illustrating the wide-ranging utility of the binomial model for numerically estimating option prices. There is a completely new chapter on the pricing of exotic options. The appendix now features linear algebra with sufficient background material to support a more rigorous development of the Arbitrage Theorem.The new edition has more than doubled the number of exercises compared to the previous edition and now contains over 700 exercises. Thus, students completing the book will gain a deeper understanding of the development of modern financial mathematics.
Finance Essentials For Start-up Entrepreneurs
This book tries to present simple but important concepts in accounts and finance necessary to run a start-up successfully. It is not intended to be part of any formal course but rather a handbook to manage the finances of a business. Finance and Accounts is a vast subject and a formal study could take some years. What we have tried to do in this book is to simplify those topics which are very essential and basic in the day-to-day running of a business. If you go through these pages and try to grasp these basic principles, there is every chance that you can master the basics of finance to run your business. You must be familiar with the Pareto principle. In most cases, eighty percent of the effect comes from twenty percent of the causes. Similarly, in running a business, twenty percent of the theories of finance and accounts are important for running eighty percent of your business. It is this twenty percent that we have tried to simplify and put across to you in this book, both in text and in a presentation. The presentation that follows the main text was given to a batch of entrepreneurs who had enrolled for a popular program designed by IIM Bangalore for founders of new start-ups. The presentation was very well received.
Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities
This report explores green bonds and other finance instruments for climate-resilient infrastructure and investment opportunities that can support Thailand in achieving a low carbon economy.In this report, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) consulted with experts in partnership with ADB, the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility, and Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Debt Management Office under the Ministry of Finance. It is part of a series for various countries developed by CBI to promote green financing among various stakeholders and development partners in the public and private sectors, including project owners and developers, institutional investors, asset managers, financial institutions, government bodies, and international organizations.
Stock Trading for a Living
Is It Possible to Make a Living with Stock Trading? Well, It Is If You Know What You Are Doing, And With This Guide in Your Hands, You Will!Stock trading is becoming more and more popular as it became available to people from all walks of life. Nonetheless, many people miss out on this fantastic opportunity because they are too afraid - mostly of losing all of their money on the first try.What they don't know is that there is a way to overcome everything and succeed.Do you want to be a successful stock trader? Do you want to learn how to make a living by trading stocks? Do you want to learn how to reduce investment risks while increasing revenue? If that's the case, you've come to the right place because this guide will teach you everything you need to know to get started right away! Stock Trading for a Living will teach you how to use various strategies and tools to identify suitable investments and increase your chances of success. The step-by-step guides and expert advice will teach you the ins and outs of stock trading, as well as how to avoid common blunders, minimize risk, and maximize return.Here is what this stock market trading and investing guide for beginners can offer you: - Stock trading FAQ - what is the stock market, and how does it work- A quick guide to learn the trading jargon and commonly used terms- An in-depth explanation of 6 stock trading strategies- Guide to trading psychology - how to transform your mind to think like a real trader- Seven tips to avoid common mistakes and emotion-led trading- Tried-and-tested strategies you can start using today- And much more!If you want to become a successful investor and learn how to trade stocks for a living, all you have to do is follow the step-by-step instructions and expert strategies found in this stock trading guide for beginners. Your fortune is waiting for you - what are you waiting for?Scroll up, click on "Buy Now with 1-Click", and Get Your Copy Now!
Financial Inclusion and the Role of Banking System
The book portrays the scope and dimension of different financial inclusion strategies. It looks at the role and potential of banks involved in financial inclusion. This book focuses on the importance of financial inclusion and in measuring its important determinants. It provides an empirical insight into how the different factors influence financial inclusion of a nation, providing a guideline to the banks and the regulators to select an effective structure of bank branch and efficient composition, to ensure best utilization of their devoted resources in the context of a developing economy.
Inclusive and Sustainable Finance
This pioneering book draws upon diverse wisdom traditions and their current living business practices to show that not only is another world possible, it is hiding in plain sight. Through real life examples and case studies, it develops a new organic theory of finance which can help society to prepare for a sustainable inclusive future.
Redefining Strategic Routes to Financial Resilience in Asean+3
This book explores how regional financial cooperation could support greater financial resilience in ASEAN+3 amid rapid economic and financial development and technological change. Globalization and digitalization have transformed the financial landscape of ASEAN+3--the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Despite impressive reforms, the region faces continued challenges. These include deepening corporate bond markets, coping with cross-border bank concentration risk, reducing dependence on the United States dollar, achieving sustainable infrastructure investments, addressing pension issues, and supporting fintech development. This edited volume highlights the potential for stronger regional financial cooperation to help address such challenges. It discusses lessons learned through financial cooperation since the Asian financial crisis and sets out policy considerations to help promote a more resilient financial future.
California and the American Tax Revolt
In Spring 1983 the Los Angeles Times set out to produce is own "State of the State" report, five years after the passage of the notorious and widely imitated Proportion 13. Price Waterhouse and the Times poll conducted an immense survey of both the public and private sector. A team of eighteen specialist reports looked into every area of public service: police and fire protection, roads and public works, parks, public health, libraries, schools, and more. The results, published in a nine0part series in June 1983, remain by far the most up-to-date synthesis of what, for better and worse, the 1970s tax revolt has achieved. The original Time reports is here supplemented by an introductory essay placing hte California revolt in national context, comparing it with later, parallel actions in other states, notably Massachusetts, and placing all these actions in illuminating historical perspective. A detailed statistical abstract completes the volume. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
California and the American Tax Revolt
In Spring 1983 the Los Angeles Times set out to produce is own "State of the State" report, five years after the passage of the notorious and widely imitated Proportion 13. Price Waterhouse and the Times poll conducted an immense survey of both the public and private sector. A team of eighteen specialist reports looked into every area of public service: police and fire protection, roads and public works, parks, public health, libraries, schools, and more. The results, published in a nine0part series in June 1983, remain by far the most up-to-date synthesis of what, for better and worse, the 1970s tax revolt has achieved. The original Time reports is here supplemented by an introductory essay placing hte California revolt in national context, comparing it with later, parallel actions in other states, notably Massachusetts, and placing all these actions in illuminating historical perspective. A detailed statistical abstract completes the volume. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Redefining Rich
Imagine a day when you have complete confidence with handling money while making it work for you. A time when you are free from the emotional rollercoaster that happens every time a choice is made that makes you feel unsafe or in jeopardy, or... at least you have habits that help bring you back to a place of calm. A place where making a wise cash flow decision is easier. This book contains techniques that will help you reframe how you think about money and implement new ways of creating wealth. Collectively, think of these tools as a roadmap to freedom. We begin by creating awareness of mental barriers associated with money beliefs, followed by the ability to consciously choose to create new, more empowering thought processes.Suzie's approach is foundational and focuses on your money mindset and how it can either be a hindrance or help in your financial success. If you feel like you can never get ahead and suspect it may be habits or thought patterns holding you back, this book is for you.
Asia Bond Monitor - March 2022
This edition considers recent trends in financial conditions and developments in local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia. It includes the results of the 2021 bond market liquidity survey.This edition of the Asia Bond Monitor also discusses the pricing of frequent green bond issuances, foreign participation in Asian local currency bond markets, and financial stability risks. It provides a summary of insights on progress toward greater efficiency and integrity in sustainable financial markets from the Asian Development Bank-State Street Global Advisors Webinar Series.
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation
Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851-1880 provides a new perspective on how and why workers organise, and what shapes that organisation.The author's 2018 Origins of Worker Mobilisation examined the beginning of worker organisation, arguing inequality at work, and regulatory subordination of labour, drove worker resistance, initially by informal organization that slowly transitioned to formal organisation. This new volume analyses worker mobilisation in the period 1851-1880, drawing data from a unique relational database recording every instance of organisation. It assesses not only the types of organization formed, but also the issues and objectives upon which mobilisation was founded. It examines the relationship between formal and informal organisation, including their respective influences in reshaping working conditions and the life-circumstances of working communities. It relates the examination of worker mobilisation to both historical and contemporary contexts and examines mobilisation by different categories of labour. The book identifies important effects of mobilisation on economic inequality, hours of work (including the eight-hour day and the beginnings of the weekend) and the development of democracy.It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of social mobilisation, social and economic history, industrial relations, labour regulation, labour history, and employment relations.
The Political Economy of Central Banking in Emerging Economies
Since the start of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, research on central banking has gained momentum due to unusual levels of central bank activism and unconventional monetary policy measures in many countries. While these policies drew significant attention to advanced economy central banks, there has been much less academic focus on central banking in emerging economies. This book extends the research on the political economy of central banking by focusing on the emerging economies in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the European periphery.Central banks are at the heart of economic policymaking, and their decisions have a significant impact on the social and economic well-being of citizens. Adopting an interdisciplinary political economy perspective, the contributions in this book explore the reciprocal relations between politics, economics, and central banks, and how the global and domestic political economy contexts influence central bank practices. The chapters employ diverse theoretical perspectives such as institutional and organizational theory, developmental state resource dependency, and gender studies, drawing on disciplines ranging from politics, international relations, public policy, management, finance, and sociology.This book will appeal to academics and students of central banking, political economy, and emerging economies, as well as professionals and policymakers engaged with central banks, monetary policy, and economic development.
Optional Processes
This book aims to provide an accessible, comprehensive and up-to-date exposition of optional processes and their numerous properties.
Unconventional Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
Having faced a crisis in its banking sector nearly a decade earlier, Japan was a pioneer in the use of many unconventional monetary policies used during the global financial crisis of 2008-09. This book assesses measures taken by Japan and examines what they have meant for the practice of economic policy.
Capital and Finance
This book applies finance to the field of capital theory, thus providing a new point of view and analysis of the long-standing problems in capital theory as well as other related topics such as the use of neoclassical production functions and theorizing about business cycles.
Sexy Credit
Do you want to buy a house or the car of your dreams? How about leveraging money to start a business but your credit score is holding you back.Are you thinking about getting married?Do you want to refinance your home?Would you like to rent an apartment or ask for a bank loan or repair the roof of your home?Maybe you lost your job or mishandled your credit, paid a few late installments, and now you have problems with a low credit report.Would you like to adjust your credit report to apply for finance or access lower costs to available consumer loans but don't know how to make it?If so, then keep on reading because this guide is perfect for you!Having a high credit score in the American credit system allows for faster and more reliable approvals of loans or mortgages and having, above all, much lower interest rates. The problems of a low credit score are due to unhealthy past credit management and errors in the credit system.Don't worry, you are not alone. More than half of Americans are in debt with less than Sexy Credit. The good news is that it's not impossible to become debt free and obtain Sexy Credit.You just need a Strategy! Save on lawyers. All you need to know is inside this step by step guide to repair your credit, improve your score and build financial confidence.
Modern Cryptography Volume 1
Chapter 1. Preparatory knowledge.- Chapter 2. The basis of code theory.- Chapter 3. Shannon theory.- Chapter 4. Cryptosystem and authentication system.- Chapter 5. Prime test.- Chapter 6. Elliptic curve.- Chapter 7. Lattice-based cryptography.
Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Investing
Discover That Getting Into Bitcoin and Crypto Doesn't Have to Be So Terrifying! - Try Out New Investment Ventures With This Book That Will Teach You the Ropes of Decentralized Finance, Hassle-Free! So, you've heard about Bitcoin and how profitable it is, and you want to try your hand at it, but you aren't sure where to start.In our digital age, saying that you "don't have enough knowledge" is not an excuse anymore. There are so many resources out there to help you learn the basics.And with this book, you've found the perfect all-in-one book to lay down the best foundation on crypto investing so you can get started immediately!Find excellent tips about Bitcoin and learn about the past, present, and future of Bitcoin! Find out exactly why millions of investors around the world continue to place their trust in cryptocurrency.In this book, you'll discover: Insider info on crypto investing: Become strong and well-informed and begin investing in crypto! With these exclusive tips, you'll be a master by the end of this book.A brighter future: Discover practical ways to succeed in crypto investing and make smarter investments. Watch as your profits skyrocket!No pressure investments: Whether you're a risk-taker that wants to dive in headfirst, or you want to take things slow and cautiously begin investing, you'll definitely find the perfect advice for you.There's nothing to fear: Be guided every step of the way as this book will hold your hand through it all and lay down your path to success.Take the first step in educating yourself about crypto investments, and begin investing today.There's nothing to be afraid of when you have this book that will teach you all the basics and so much more!Scroll up, Click on "Buy Now", and Start Today!
Value for Money in Public-Private Partnerships
This technical note explains why countries should cement strong public private partnerships (PPP) to bridge deep funding gaps and build the climate-resilient infrastructure they need.It analyzes how the pandemic and government worries over value for money have combined with business' concerns over investment risk to dampen regional PPP deals. Providing a checklist for countries to rate projects, it explains why robust governance and strategic planning is critical to the success of public-private deals. It underscores that embracing the private sector is crucial to build sustainable infrastructure that can boost jobs, stimulate growth, and support an inclusive recovery.
Wealth Your Way
Journey through your Life's Complete Financial Arc with Wealth Your Way. Accumulate wealth, achieve the pinnacle of financial independence, and then comfortably spend your wealth as you retire on your own terms. Financial independence buys you the most valuable asset on the planet-freedom. The freedom to spend your money, and more importantly, your time, however you see fit.Still, reaching financial independence requires more than mere investing. Unlike other books that try to tell you what to think, Wealth Your Way teaches you how to think about growing your wealth, with real-life examples of the pitfalls you might encounter and strategies to avoid them.As with most things in life, the more carefully you plan for financial independence, making course corrections along the way, the less you'll need to worry about the outcome. Live your best life today with the satisfaction and comfort of knowing your financial future is in good hands-your own.
Modern Cryptography Volume 1
Chapter 1. Preparatory knowledge.- Chapter 2. The basis of code theory.- Chapter 3. Shannon theory.- Chapter 4. Cryptosystem and authentication system.- Chapter 5. Prime test.- Chapter 6. Elliptic curve.- Chapter 7. Lattice-based cryptography.
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the British ignited a rebellion in Sierra Leone by imposing a tax on huts--and, in repressing it, ended up burning the very huts they intended to tax. Sometimes they succeed astonishingly, as when, in eighteenth-century Britain, a cut in the tax on tea massively increased revenue. In this entertaining book, two leading authorities on taxation, Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, provide a fascinating and informative tour through these and many other episodes in tax history, both preposterous and dramatic--from the plundering described by Herodotus and an Incan tax payable in lice to the (misremembered) Boston Tea Party and the scandals of the Panama Papers. Along the way, readers meet a colorful cast of tax rascals, and even a few tax heroes. While it is hard to fathom the inspiration behind such taxes as one on ships that tended to make them sink, Keen and Slemrod show that yesterday's tax systems have more in common with ours than we may think. Georgian England's window tax now seems quaint, but was an ingenious way of judging wealth unobtrusively. And Tsar Peter the Great's tax on beards aimed to induce the nobility to shave, much like today's carbon taxes aim to slow global warming. Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue is a surprising and one-of-a-kind account of how history illuminates the perennial challenges and timeless principles of taxation--and how the past holds clues to solving the tax problems of today.
Wealth Your Way
Journey through your Life's Complete Financial Arc with Wealth Your Way. Accumulate wealth, achieve the pinnacle of financial independence, and then comfortably spend your wealth as you retire on your own terms. Financial independence buys you the most valuable asset on the planet-freedom. The freedom to spend your money, and more importantly, your time, however you see fit.Still, reaching financial independence requires more than mere investing. Unlike other books that try to tell you what to think, Wealth Your Way teaches you how to think about growing your wealth, with real-life examples of the pitfalls you might encounter and strategies to avoid them.As with most things in life, the more carefully you plan for financial independence, making course corrections along the way, the less you'll need to worry about the outcome. Live your best life today with the satisfaction and comfort of knowing your financial future is in good hands-your own.
Taxation History, Theory, Law and Administration
Tax practitioners are unfamiliar with tax theory. Tax economists remain unfamiliar with tax law and tax administration. Most textbooks relate mainly to the US, UK or European experiences. Students in emerging economies remain unfamiliar with their own taxation history. This textbook fills those gaps. It covers the concept of taxes in regards to their rationale, principles, design, and common errors. It addresses distortions in consumer choices and production decisions caused by tax and redressals. The main principles of taxation--efficiency, equity, stabilization, revenue productivity, administrative feasibility, international neutrality--are presented and discussed. The efficiency principle requires the minimisation of distortions in the market caused by tax. Equity in taxation is another principle that is maintained through progressivity in the tax structure. Similarly, other principles have their own ramifications that are also addressed. A country's constitutionalspecification of tax assignment to different levels of government--central, state, municipal--are elaborated. The UK is more centralised than the US and India. India has amended its constitution to introduce a goods and services tax (GST) covering both central and state governments. Drafting of tax law is crucial for clarity and this aspect is addressed. Furthermore, the author illustrates different types of taxes such as individual income tax, corporate income tax, wealth tax, retail sales/value added/goods and services tax, selective excises, property tax, minimum taxes such as the minimum alternate tax (MAT), cash-flow tax, financial transactions tax, fringe benefits tax, customs duties and export taxes, environment tax and global carbon tax, and user charges. An emerging concern regarding the inadequacy of international taxation of multinational corporations is covered in some detail. Structural aspects of tax administration are given particular attention.
Impact and effects of innovations in the financial industry in Germany
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South
This book examines the trends and impacts of cyber-related incidents on Global South economies. It further explores cybersecurity challenges, threats, and risks likely faced by businesses and governments of the region. It offers tools, techniques, and legislative frameworks that can improve the Global South's cybersecurity posture.
Trading at the Speed of Light
A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial markets In today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by lightning-fast electronic systems that use algorithms to execute astounding volumes of transactions. Trading at the Speed of Light tells the story of this epic transformation. Donald MacKenzie shows how in the 1990s, in what were then the disreputable margins of the US financial system, a new approach to trading-automated high-frequency trading or HFT-began and then spread throughout the world. HFT has brought new efficiency to global trading, but has also created an unrelenting race for speed, leading to a systematic, subterranean battle among HFT algorithms. In HFT, time is measured in nanoseconds (billionths of a second), and in a nanosecond the fastest possible signal-light in a vacuum-can travel only thirty centimeters, or roughly a foot. That makes HFT exquisitely sensitive to the length and transmission capacity of the cables connecting computer servers to the exchanges' systems and to the location of the microwave towers that carry signals between computer datacenters. Drawing from more than 300 interviews with high-frequency traders, the people who supply them with technological and communication capabilities, exchange staff, regulators, and many others, MacKenzie reveals the extraordinary efforts expended to speed up every aspect of trading. He looks at how in some markets big banks have fought off the challenge from HFT firms, and how exchanges sometimes engineer technical systems to favor certain types of algorithms over others. Focusing on the material, political, and economic characteristics of high-frequency trading, Trading at the Speed of Light offers a unique glimpse into its influence on global finance and where it could lead us in the future.
Fintech Women Walk the Talk
The FinTech community is steeped in change and has the potential to pave the way for equal opportunities in the workplace, considering the positive actions that have taken place. There is so much more that can be done but what has been achieved so far needs to be replicated. This book showcases the successes in the industry alongside that which could act as a barrier or escalator. Being the first of its kind, FinTech Women Walk the Talk draws upon the author's podcasts that feature the insights of more than 150 FinTech experts; more than 100 of which are women. It is a call to action for diversity in the workplace, showcasing the successes and presenting how to overcome the challenges. By demystifying FinTech, and highlighting its potential to drive change, this book explores how to achieve gender parity in the workplace. The FinTech industry is used as acase study and hence of interest to practitioners in finance, technology, FinTech and beyond.
18 Money Energy Laws
Many people experience the same money-related issues over and over, again and again. There's a constant struggle to create a stable satisfying income. Poverty is deeply absorbed in the human consciousness.But there is a way to create never ending abundance and stability in every person's life. It is possible to not only have satisfaction in the money field, but in your self-esteem and relationships.18 Money Energy Laws is a powerful tool that will transform a person's life, income and relationship with themselves. This is a tool to lead a person from debt and poverty to always having money. Meaning a person who goes through the entire 18 Money Energy Laws journey will enter the state of "I always have money. If I want more, money flows. If for some reason my cash flow decreases, I don't feel the shortage. I always feel surplus and abundant".
Blockchain and Banking
Provides an overview of blockchain technology and its impact on the banking industryHighlights new avenues for research and the implications for practitioners and authoritiesIncludes qualitative-based interviews with professional bankers
Handbook of International Economics
Handbook of International Economics, Sixth Edition provides a definitive reference for researchers and advanced graduate students. The book includes self-contained surveys of the current state of a branch of economics in the form of chapters prepared by leading specialists. These surveys summarize not only received results but also newer developments from journal articles and discussion papers. Chapters cover The Global Financial Cycle, Dominant Currency Paradigm: a review, Rethinking exchange rate regimes, CIP deviations, the dollar, and frictions in international capital markets, International macroeconomics with imperfect financial markets, The prudential use of capital controls and foreign currency reserves, and Financial crises: a survey.
