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UNINA9910784338303321 |
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Kettell Brian |
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Economics for financial markets [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Kettell |
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Oxford ; ; Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002 |
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1-281-01383-8 |
9786611013837 |
0-08-049463-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Quantitative finance series |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-359) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Economics for Financial Markets; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. What do you need to know about macroeconomics to make sense of financial market volatility?; The big picture; Financial markets and the economy; Gross national product and gross domestic product; Monetarism and financial markets; The quantity theory of money - the basis of monetarism; How money affects the economy - the transmission mechanism; The modern quantity theory - modern monetarism; Monetarism and Federal Reserve operating targets from 1970 to the present |
The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU)Chapter 2. The time value of money: the key to the valuation of financial markets; Future values - compounding; Present values - discounting; Bond and stock valuation; Simple interest and compound interest; Nominal and effective rates of interest; Chapter 3. The term structure of interest rates and financial markets; Functions of interest rates; Determination of interest rates, demand and supply of funds; International factors affecting interest rates; Price and yield - a key relationship; The term structure of interest rates |
Determination of forward interest ratesThe yield curve; Unbiased expectations theory; Liquidity preference theory; The market segmentation theory; The preferred habitat theory; Chapter 4. How can investors forecast the behaviour of financial markets? The role of business cycles; The cyclical behaviour of economic variables: direction |
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and timing; The stages of the business cycle; The role of inventories in recessions; The business cycle and monetary policy; How does monetary policy affect the economy?; Fundamental analysis, the business cycle, and financial markets |
The NBER and business cyclesHow do you identify a recession?; The American business cycle: the historical record; The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) - a new target for the Federal Reserve; What is the future of the business cycle?; Chapter 5. Which US economic indicators really move the financial markets?; Gross national product and gross domestic product; GDP deflator; Producer price index (PPI); The index of industrial production; Capacity utilization rate; Commodity prices; Crude oil prices; Food prices; Commodity price indicators: a checklist |
Consumer price index (CPI)Average hourly earnings; The employment cost index (ECI); Index of leading indicators (LEI); Vendor deliveries index; Chapter 6. Consumer expenditure, investment, government spending and foreign trade: the big picture; Car sales; The employment report; The quit rate; Retail sales; Personal income and consumer expenditure; Consumer instalment credit; Investment spending, government spending and foreign trade; Residential fixed investment; Non-residential fixed investment; Inventory investment; Government spending and taxation; Budget deficits and financial markets |
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Successful trading, speculating or simply making informed decisions about financial markets means it is essential to have a firm grasp of economics. Financial market behaviour revolves around economic concepts, however the majority of economic textbooks do not tell the full story.To fully understand the behaviour of financial markets it is essential to have a model that enables new information to be absorbed and analysed with some predictive implications. That model is provided by the business cycle. 'Economics for Financial Markets' takes the reader from the basics of financia |
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UNINA9910484626303321 |
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Database and XML Technologies : Third International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 28-29, 2005, Proceedings / / edited by Stéphane Bressan, Stefano Ceri, Ela Hunt, Zachary G. Ives, Zohra Bellahsène, Michael Rys, Rainer Unland |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005 |
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[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 239 p.) |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 3671 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Data structures (Computer science) |
Information theory |
Database management |
Computer networks |
Software engineering |
Information storage and retrieval systems |
Application software |
Data Structures and Information Theory |
Database Management |
Computer Communication Networks |
Software Engineering |
Information Storage and Retrieval |
Computer and Information Systems Applications |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Invited Talk (Shared with DBPL) -- Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents -- Constraints and Views -- Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML -- A Theoretic Framework for Answering XPath Queries Using Views -- Labeling and Path Evaluation -- A Path-Based Labeling Scheme for Efficient Structural Join -- The BIRD Numbering Scheme for XML and Tree Databases – Deciding and |
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Reconstructing Tree Relations Using Efficient Arithmetic Operations -- Efficient Handling of Positional Predicates Within XML Query Processing -- Indexing -- Relational Index Support for XPath Axes -- Supporting XPath Axes with Relational Databases Using a Proxy Index -- An Extended Preorder Index for Optimising XPath Expressions -- Benchmarking and Query Processing -- XPathMark: An XPath Benchmark for the XMark Generated Data -- MemBeR: A Micro-benchmark Repository for XQuery -- Main Memory Implementations for Binary Grouping -- Documents and Biometrical Applications -- Logic Wrappers and XSLT Transformations for Tuples Extraction from HTML -- Approximate Subtree Identification in Heterogeneous XML Documents Collections -- A Framework for XML-Based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain -- Industrial Session -- Optimizing Runtime XML Processing in Relational Databases -- Panel (Together with DBPL) -- Panel: “Whither XML, ca. 2005?”. |
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UNINA9910146579503321 |
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Language sciences |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Elsevier Science |
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Linguistics |
Language and languages |
Language acquisition |
Psycholinguistics |
Language |
Language Development |
Linguistique - Périodiques |
Langage et langues - Périodiques |
Linguistique |
Langage et langues |
Langage - Acquisition |
Psycholinguistique |
linguistics |
psycholinguistics |
Periodical |
periodicals. |
Periodicals. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Refereed/Peer-reviewed |
Published: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, <2004-> |
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