1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143587103321

Autore

Pepper Gordon T. <1934->

Titolo

The liquidity theory of asset prices [[electronic resource] /] / Gordon Pepper with Michael J. Oliver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England, : John Wiley & Sons, c2006

ISBN

1-118-67342-5

1-280-41110-4

9786610411108

0-470-03277-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Classificazione

85.30

Altri autori (Persone)

OliverMichael J

Disciplina

332.63232

332/.041501

Soggetti

Monetary policy

Liquidity (Economics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Authors; List of Tables, Figures and Charts; Introduction; Appetiser; Structure of the Book; Language and Jargon; Academic Theories; Modern Portfolio Theory; The Efficient Markets Hypothesis; Forms of Investment Analysis; Fundamental Analysis; Monetary Analysis; Technical Analysis; The Intuitive Approach; What the Book is Going to Say; Part I the Liquidity Theory; 1 Types of Trades in Securities; 1.1 Liquidity Trades and Portfolio Trades; 1.2 Information Trades and Price Trades; 1.3 'Efficient Prices'

1.4 Expectations of Further Rises or Falls2 Persistent Liquidity Trades; 2.1 Demand for Money; 2.1.1 Transactions Demand for Money; 2.1.2 Savings Demand for Money; 2.1.3 Interest Rates and the Demand for Money; 2.2 Supply of Money; 2.2.1 Printing-Press Money; 2.2.2 Fountain-Pen Money; 2.2.3 Interest Rates and the Supply of Money; 2.3 Monetary Imbalances; 2.4 Excess Money in the Economy; 2.5 Summary; 3 Extrapolative Expectations; 3.1 Sentiment; 3.2 Intuition; 3.3 Decision-Taking Inertia; 3.4 Crowds; 3.5 Fundamental and Monetary



Forces in the Same Direction; 4 Discounting Liquidity Transactions

4.1 Speculation4.2 Timing; 4.3 Short-Term Risk Versus Profits in the Longer Term; Appendix: Speculation and Market Patterns; 5 Cyclical Changes Associated with Business Cycles; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Direct and Indirect Effects of Money on Asset Prices; 5.2.1 Money, Business Cycles and Inflation; 5.2.2 Business Cycles and Fundamental Factors: the 'indirect Effect' on Asset Prices; 5.2.3 The Combination of the Indirect and Direct Effects; 5.3 Strategy; 5.4 Timing; 5.5 Sequences; 5.6 Triggers; 6 Shifts in the Savings Demand for Money; 6.1 The Peak of a Business Cycle

6.2 Running Down Bank DepositsAppendix 6A: Some Bond Arithmetic; Appendix 6B: Government Bond Markets; Part II Financial Bubbles and Debt Deflation; 7 Financial Bubbles; 7.1 Detection of a Bubble; 7.2 Phases; 7.2.1 Chronically Dangerous; 7.2.2 The Burst; 7.2.3 Acutely Dangerous; 7.3 Crosschecks; 8 Debt Deflation; 8.1 The Cure for Debt Deflation; 8.1.1 Money Supply Policy; 8.1.2 Fiscal Policy; Appendix: Ignorance of Irving Fisher's Prescription; Part III Elaboration; 9 Creation of Printing-Press Money; 9.1 The UK in More Detail; 9.2 Four Policies

10 Control of Fountain-Pen Money and the Counterparts of Broad Money10.1 Control of Bank Lending; 10.1.1 The Teaching in Textbooks; 10.1.2 How Central Banks Operate in Practice; 10.2 Bank Capital; 10.3 The UK in More Detail; 10.4 The 'Counterparts' of Changes in Broad Money; 10.5 Relationship Between the Counterparts; 11 Modern Portfolio Theory and the Nature of Risk; 11.1 Summary; 11.2 Expected Yield; 11.3 Risk; 11.3.1 Risk and the Circumstances of the Investor; 11.3.2 Variation in Risk - Life Assurance Funds; 11.3.3 Investment Managers' Personal Risk; 11.3.4 Unacceptable Risks

11.4 Exploiting Skewness

Sommario/riassunto

Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well-springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundbreaking new book explores the belief that at the core of liquidity there is a force which exerts individuals to effect a financial transaction when they would not otherwise do so.  Understanding this force of compulsio



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824654503321

Autore

Mocombe Paul C.

Titolo

Jesus and the streets : the loci of causality for the intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in black urban America and the United Kingdom / / Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, and Victoria Showunmi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7618-6620-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Disciplina

371.20973

Soggetti

Academic achievement - United States

Academic achievement - Great Britain

Educational equalization

Great Britain

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Background and theorizing about the Black intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States and United Kingdom -- Theory and method -- Subject constitution and interpellation within Mocombe's structural Marxism -- Black subject constitution and interpellation in the US and UK within Mocombe's structural Marxism -- Jesus and the streets.

Sommario/riassunto

Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, this book offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433244803321

Autore

Jacrot Bernard

Titolo

Neutrons for science : The history of Institut Laue-Langevin, an exceptionally successful international collaboration / / Bernard Jacrot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

EDP SCIENCES, 2021

Les Ulis : , : EDP Sciences, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

9782759822553

2759822559

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

539.709

Soggetti

SCIENCE / Physics / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Bernard Jacrot -- Introduction. Why write a history of the ILL? -- 1. Pre-history -- 2. Portraits of three founders of the ILL -- 3. Why invest so much money in a source of neutrons? -- 4. The negotiations -- 5. The construction of the reactor and the scientific groups -- 6. The start of research activities and the arrival of the British -- 7. Maturity -- 8. The dark years -- 9. Consolidation and the future -- 10. Conclusion: an appraisal -- 11. The ILL between 2005 and 2018 -- Chronology of ILL events -- Key people involved in the history of the ILL -- Appendixes.. Some historical documents -- Acknowledgements. Past and present -- Postscript. Translator's note -- Credits for the illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

In 1967, France and Germany agreed to cooperate on the construction and commissioning of a nuclear reactor dedicated to research in physics, chemistry and biology. Thus was born the Institut Laue-Langevin, a project whose aim was to provide research scientists with an extremely intense source of neutron beams, a fundamental tool for probing the mysteries of matter. Britain soon joined the project, followed gradually by other countries both from western and eastern Europe, making the Institut Laue-Langevin a particularly successful example of European cooperation. This success is a clear illustration of



how, by joining forces and skills in this way, it was possible to provide scientists from "the old continent" with the means to tackle ambitious projects by giving them the best neutron source in the world. Neutrons for Science tells the story of the beginnings of this project and shows how, with the right organisation, it was possible to optimise the use of the reactor. The book also paints the portraits of three eminent figures, Jules Horowitz, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz and Louis Néel, who played a key role in this success. In this English edition, a chapter has been added covering the period 2004-2018 in order to create a link with the modern era and highlight the dynamism that has marked the Institute since it was founded.