TY - BOOK ID - 8056995 TI - Handbook of frontier markets. AU - Andrikopoulos, Panagiotis AU - Gregoriou, Greg N. AU - Kallinterakis, Vasileios PY - 2016 SN - 1786841398 0128038403 0128037768 9780128038406 9780128037768 0128092009 9780128092002 0128094915 9780128094914 1786841401 9781786841407 9781786841391 PB - Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Investments KW - Investing KW - Investment management KW - Portfolio KW - Finance KW - Disinvestment KW - Loans KW - Saving and investment KW - Speculation KW - Africa, North. KW - Asia. KW - Developing countries. KW - Middle East. KW - Asia, Western KW - Eastern Mediterranean KW - Eastern Mediterranean Region KW - Fertile Crescent KW - Levant KW - Middle East KW - Mideast KW - Near East KW - South West KW - Southwest Asia KW - West Asia KW - Western Asia KW - Asia KW - Emerging nations KW - Fourth World KW - Global South KW - LDC's KW - Least developed countries KW - Less developed countries KW - Newly industrialized countries KW - Newly industrializing countries KW - NICs KW - Third World KW - Underdeveloped areas KW - Underdeveloped countries KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Africa, North KW - Barbary States KW - Maghreb KW - Maghrib KW - Eurasia KW - North Africa. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8056995 AB - Handbook of Frontier Markets: Evidence from Asia and International Comparative Studies provides novel insights from academic perspectives about the behavior of investors and prices in several frontier markets. It explores finance issues usually reserved for developed and emerging markets in order to gauge whether these issues are relevant and how they manifest themselves in frontier markets. Frontier markets have now become a popular investment class among institutional investors internationally, with major financial services providers establishing index-benchmarks for this market-category. The anticipation for frontier markets is optimistic uncertainty, and many people believe that, given their growth rates, these markets will be economic success stories. Irrespective of their degrees of success, The Handbook of Frontier Markets can help ensure that the increasing international investment diverted to them will aid in their greater integration within the global financial system. Presents topics in the contexts of frontier markets and uses tests based on established methodologies from finance research Features contributing authors who are established university academics Emphasizes financial institutions and applications of financial risk models Explores finance issues usually reserved for developed and emerging markets in order to gauge whether these issues are relevant and how they manifest themselves in frontier markets ER -