Financial Origami

Author : Brendan Moynihan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118030325

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Financial Origami by Brendan Moynihan Pdf

An in-depth look at the failure of Wall Street's "proven" financial models Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper into intricate and aesthetically attractive shapes. As such, it is the perfect metaphor for the Wall Street financial engineering model, which ultimately proved to be the underlying cause of the 2008 financial crisis. In Financial Origami, Brendan Moynihan describes how the Wall Street business model evolved from a method to transfer risk into a method for manufacturing risk. Along the way, this timely book skillfully dissects financial engineering and addresses how it's often a mechanism to evade regulatory constraints, provide institutional investors with customized products, and, of course, generate revenue for financial engineers. Reveals how Wall Street's financial engineering business model morphed into something destructive Highlights how the origami model worked well in the comparatively stable years of the early 2000s, when there was less risk to transfer Discusses how Wall Street began manufacturing risk by creating products that multiplied risk exposures and encouraged subprime lending With the collapse of Lehman Brother the Wall Street business model effectively broke. But there are many lessons to be learned from what has transpired, and Financial Origami will show you what they are.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Laissez Faire Books
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621290483

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The Failure of Common Knowledge (LFB) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael M. Thomas
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612194998

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Fixers by Michael M. Thomas Pdf

James B. Stewart, bestselling author of Den of Thieves, raves that Fixers “is a hugely entertaining novel that steps boldly into the most perplexing and enduring mystery of the financial crisis: why its perpetrators were not only not punished, but rewarded by the government.” In Fixers, Michael M. Thomas, the New York Times-bestselling novelist and longtime financial insider, has crafted an exhilarating thriller of a top conspiracy between Wall Street and the White House. On a winter’s night, a well-heeled “cultural consultant” named Chauncey Suydam gets a call from the head of the world’s most powerful investment bank, who says a financial crisis is brewing and has a plan to insulate Wall Street from the fallout—and keep people such as himself out of jail. His mission for Chauncey is simple: to help funnel millions of dollars to a presidential candidate espousing change, in exchange for a few Wall Street–friendly names in the resultant administration. Yet as Chauncey wends his way among the nation’s political elite and becomes addicted to his masterful manipulations, he sees with greater clarity than ever how decisions really get made—on Wall Street and in Washington. And as the magnitude of the fix he’s perpetrating begins to sink in, its poisonous affect on Main Street becomes apparent, and his addiction to his masterful manipulations evident, Chauncey starts to have second thoughts. Is it too late?

Author : Tejinder K. Judge,Carman Neustaedter
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128006146

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Studying and Designing Technology for Domestic Life by Tejinder K. Judge,Carman Neustaedter Pdf

Conducting research and technology design for domestic life is by no means easy. Methods commonly used in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in settings like the workplace may not easily translate to the richness and complexity of domestic life. This book documents new ways in which researchers are studying domestic life, as well as designing and evaluating technology in the home. Each chapter is a candid discussion about methods that were successfully used for research studies with a focus on the challenges that the researchers faced and the best practices they learned. Discover new research methods for exploring family life and evaluating and designing domestic technology. Learn about the challenges in designing for and studying domestic life from experts in the field. Read researchers' candid stories about what works and what does not work in practice. More information available at the companion website: http://lessonsfromhome.org/

Author : Nuno Pires de Carvalho
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041141996

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Patently Outdated by Nuno Pires de Carvalho Pdf

An economy of services largely dominates our world today, but no patent system is available to support it. All signs point increasingly to evidence that in almost all countries—and as enshrined in the TRIPS Agreement—patent rules and procedures are seriously handicapped in their incapacity to respond to current economic reality. Many inventions today are made without any materiality, yet they are nonetheless genuine inventions, such as those that arise from the banking, insurance and business consulting industries. Today’s patent system remains deeply linked to the making of things with human hands. It must evolve and adapt so that the new economy can also benefit from its advantages. This book is about that adaptation—which will come, or, rather, as the author shows, has slowly started to come. By describing details and historical events that shed light on how patent law has evolved from the pre-industrial to the industrial economy, the book manifests the need for a further evolution of patents to the post-industrial economy.

Author : Monty C. M. Metzger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783756282913

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Blockchain Banking by Monty C. M. Metzger Pdf

Blockchain is not just a technology, it is a groundbreaking concept for decentralized money and finance. Monty Metzger has done something really important: showcasing the business impact of that concept, revealing just how revolutionary it is. In a book that is one part prophecy and future research report, one part documentation and case studies, and one part survival manual, internet entrepreneur and thought leader Monty C. M. Metzger showcases the impact of Blockchain on finance and money, to discover seven leadership opportunities and straight forward rules for every digital leader. At the same time, he illuminates the new financial order of the internet of value: how it challenges and destroys the status quo but also opens up new areas of innovation. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything - from corporations to governments, nations to individuals - must evolve in the blockchain era. Blockchain Banking is an astonishing, mind-opening book that, in the end, is not about technology. It is about you. - "Blockchain is not just a technology, it is a groundbreaking concept for decentralized money and finance. Monty Metzger has done something really important: showcasing the impact of that concept, revealing just how revolutionary it is" "Blockchain Banking is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the opportunities and challenges of using blockchain technology in the financial industry. The book provides a clear and concise overview of the key concepts, and offers valuable insights into how businesses can use blockchain to create new, more efficient and more secure financial services." "Blockchain Banking is a thought-provoking and timely book that offers a fresh perspective on the future of finance. Monty's deep knowledge of the industry and clear writing style make it a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of blockchain and banking."

Author : Suhaib A. Bandh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030862909

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Climate Change by Suhaib A. Bandh Pdf

Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, the impacts of climate change have been fierce, causing loss of human life and irreparable destruction to natural and man-made infrastructure in many parts of the world. The difference between climate change now and in the past is that of sudden and disproportionate disruption of the natural energy dynamics by the changing consumption patterns of billions of human beings who have polluted terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The picture that emerges from the exhaustive analysis of international data drawn from the most reliable sources indicates that we have possibly gained access to the gateway of extinction and it is time that we take corrective steps immediately. Global climate change is further altering our relationship with the environment, modifying relatively stable climatic factors and making them uncertain, unpredictable, and threatening. Changes in land use and an increasing demand for water resources due to climate change have affected the capacity of ecosystems to sustain food production, ensure the supply of freshwater resources, provide ecosystem services, and promote rural multi-functionality. Ensuring food production does not just depend on increasing water efficiency, promoting climate resilient crop production, or reducing land-use competition for urbanization but also on a more suitable and stable climate as the changes in climatic factors like precipitation, temperature, radiation, evaporation, and wind bring about some major shifts in global food supplies. According to Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES), focused on greenhouse gas emissions projections, and Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change increases the risk of simultaneous crop failures (including corn, rice, legumes, and vegetables) if irrigation systems are not fully adapted to water stress situations. A changing climate could have many adverse impacts on other sectors of our environment. This book offers concrete, up-to-date, and appropriate study cum research material for students, researchers, academicians and policymakers. It will be of a greater interest to students and researchers in the field of environmental science, agriculture science, agronomy, and sustainable development.

Author : Matthew Bernhard,Andrea Bracciali,L. Jean Camp,Shin'ichiro Matsuo,Alana Maurushat,Peter B. Rønne,Massimiliano Sala
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030544553

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security by Matthew Bernhard,Andrea Bracciali,L. Jean Camp,Shin'ichiro Matsuo,Alana Maurushat,Peter B. Rønne,Massimiliano Sala Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two workshops held at the 24th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2020, in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, in February 2020. The 39 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers feature four Workshops: The 1st Asian Workshop on Usable Security, AsiaUSEC 2020, the 1st Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, CoDeFi 2020, the 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting, VOTING 2020, and the 4th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2020. The AsiaUSEC Workshop contributes an increase of the scientific quality of research in human factors in security and privacy. In terms of improving efficacy of secure systems, the research included an extension of graphical password authentication. Further a comparative study of SpotBugs, SonarQube, Cryptoguard and CogniCrypt identified strengths in each and refined the need for improvements in security testing tools. The CoDeFi Workshop discuss multi-disciplinary issues regarding technologies and operations of decentralized finance based on permissionless blockchain. The workshop consists of two parts; presentations by all stakeholders, and unconference style discussions. The VOTING Workshop cover topics like new methods for risk-limited audits, new ethods to increase the efficiency of mixnets, verification of security of voting schemes election auditing, voting system efficiency, voting system usability, and new technical designs for cryptographic protocols for voting systems, and new way of preventing voteselling by de-incentivising this via smart contracts. The WTSC Workshop focuses on smart contracts, i.e., self-enforcing agreements in the form of executable programs, and other decentralized applications that are deployed to and run on top of specialized blockchains.

Author : Markus Sesko
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9783842366039

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Legends and Stories Around the Japanese Sword by Markus Sesko Pdf

In the last years and decades several publications and translations on the subject of the Japanese Sword have been published in the West. In this way, the historical background, the characteristics of the blades, smiths, and schools, as well as the art of sword forging, and the sword fittings were introduced and explained. The aim of this publication is now to bring the reader closer to the role the Japanese sword - the nihont - played in the warrior class and the Japanese society, namely by the means of legends, stories, and anecdotes on famous swords and their swordsmiths, embedded in an explanation of the background and other relevant facts. In the end, the reader should have an idea about the high value that was placed on this proverbial legendary weapon that span than a thousand years of Japanese history (and even still today as an object of art). The aim was to obtain a balance between easy access for beginners and detailed facts for confirmed enthusiasts.

Author : Markus Sesko
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Swords
ISBN : 9781312563155

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Encyclopedia of Japanese Swords by Markus Sesko Pdf

This completely new encyclopedic reference for the Japanese sword contains about 2,500 terms, many of them illustrated by photos and drawings. The Encyclopedia of Japanese Swords is an A-Z general encyclopedia covering each and every part of the sword: the blade, the mountings, the fittings, and all their different interpretations. Further, this encyclopedia also explains the literal or etymological meaning of each Japanese term and provides an even deeper insight into the subject.

Author : Markus Sesko
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329004139

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Masamune - His Work, his Fame and his Legacy (PB) by Markus Sesko Pdf

It is often said that Masamune was the greatest Japanese swordsmith of all times From a mere technical point of view, it is next to impossible to say if there was one "greatest" swordsmith as the country brought forth so many great master smiths. Each of these masters had a personal approach in producing a perfect sword, and within these elite circles we are not only referring to technical perfection but also to aesthetical considerations. So putting aside the claim to name a "greatest," we can at least say for sure that Masamune is by far the most famous swordsmith of Japan. The aim of this publication is to contribute to the understanding and appreciation of this great master, that is to say by not only presenting his works but also by providing a newly researched and detailed historic overview of his life and the circumstances in the establishment of a new forging tradition. This publication introduces more than 50 of his meibutsu (noted swords). PLEASE SEE LULU.COM FOR THE HARDCOVER COLOR DELUXE EDITION.

Author : J. Michael Spector,Barbara B. Lockee,Marcus D. Childress
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 4144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319174617

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Learning, Design, and Technology by J. Michael Spector,Barbara B. Lockee,Marcus D. Childress Pdf

The multiple, related fields encompassed by this Major Reference Work represent a convergence of issues and topics germane to the rapidly changing segments of knowledge and practice in educational communications and technology at all levels and around the globe. There is no other comparable work that is designed not only to gather vital, current, and evolving information and understandings in these knowledge segments but also to be updated on a continuing basis in order to keep pace with the rapid changes taking place in the relevant fields. The Handbook is composed of substantive (5,000 to 15,000 words), peer-reviewed entries that examine and explicate seminal facets of learning theory, research, and practice. It provides a broad range of relevant topics, including significant developments as well as innovative uses of technology that promote learning, performance, and instruction. This work is aimed at researchers, designers, developers, instructors, and other professional practitioners.

Author : John Montroll
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486274805

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Fun with Easy Origami by John Montroll Pdf

Everything you need to practice the Japanese art of paperfolding: clear instruction booklet for creating a hat, cup, pinwheel, boat, house, fish, and more, and 24 sheets of 7 x 7 paper in 12 colors.

Author : Hsi-Mei Chung,Kevin Au
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811590153

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Succession and Innovation in Asia’s Small-and-Medium-Sized Enterprises by Hsi-Mei Chung,Kevin Au Pdf

This book documents the distinctive experiences and challenges of Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia. By assessing succession and innovation in SMEs as the two sides of a coin, this book explains how innovations are essential to SMEs in succession. With detailed case examples, the book provides generalized solutions for SMEs to answer the question of how to make succession and innovation simultaneously successful. The authors discuss the potential solutions to solve the challenges of SMEs on succession and innovation by considering the utilization of the capital market, the electronic commerce strategy, the international strategy, and angel investment to pursue portfolio entrepreneurship, and compare these Asia solutions to the experiences from Europe. The book is recommended for family business and SME owners, professionals serving these firms, and the consulting firms that work on continuity issues of SMEs in Asia.

Author : Markus Sesko
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783844807776

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The Honami Family by Markus Sesko Pdf

The Hon ́ami were the official sword appraisers and polishers of the shogunate. Besides that, they also issued origami appraisals for blades. This book provides an overview of the different lineages of the Hon ́ami, introduces individual family representatives, and also deals with their works, the practice of origami, sword appraisal, and much more.