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This comprehensive examination of short selling, which is a bet on stocks declining in value, explores the ways that this strategy drives financial markets. Its focus on short selling by region, its consideration of the history and regulations of short selling, and its mixture of industry and academic perspectives clarify the uses of short selling and dispel notions of its destructive implications. With contributions from around the world, this volume sheds new light on the ways short selling uncovers market forces and can yield profitable trades. Combines academic and pr

Risk-taking (Psychology) --- Short selling. --- Speculation. --- Bucket-shops --- Commercial corners --- Corners, Commercial --- Finance --- Gambling --- Commodity exchanges --- Contracts, Aleatory --- Investments --- Stock exchanges --- Going short (Short selling) --- Selling short (Securities) --- Short sales (Securities) --- Short selling --- Shorting (Short selling) --- Hedging (Finance) --- Risk behavior --- Risky behavior --- Taking risks --- Human behavior --- Speculation --- aandelenhandel --- beurswezen --- speculaties --- 336.76 --- 336.76 Beurswezen. Geldmarkt. Valutamarkt. Binnenlandse geldmarkt. Valutamarkt --- Beurswezen. Geldmarkt. Valutamarkt. Binnenlandse geldmarkt. Valutamarkt --- Short selling (Securities)

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Bank failures. --- Banks and banking --- Banking law. --- Financial crises. --- Government policy. --- Bank failures --- Banking law --- Financial crises --- 332.1 --- 333.17 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Failure of banks --- Business failures --- Crashes, Financial --- Crises, Financial --- Financial crashes --- Financial panics --- Panics (Finance) --- Stock exchange crashes --- Stock market panics --- Crises --- Law, Banking --- Financial institutions --- Agricultural banks --- Banking --- Banking industry --- Commercial banks --- Depository institutions --- Finance --- Money --- Government policy --- Crises, saneringen en hervormingen van het bankwezen --- Law and legislation --- institution financière --- crise financière --- banque --- institution financière --- crise financière

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Investments --- Stock exchanges --- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --- International economic integration

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This comprehensive examination of high frequency trading looks beyond mathematical models, which are the subject of most HFT books, to the mechanics of the marketplace. In 25 chapters, researchers probe the intricate nature of high frequency market dynamics, market structure, back-office processes, and regulation. They look deeply into computing infrastructure, describing data sources, formats, and required processing rates as well as software architecture and current technologies. They also create contexts, explaining the historical rise of automated trading systems, corresponding technologi.

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With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors. While hedge funds carry high risk for the promise of high returns they are designed for the very rich and for large institutional investors such as pension funds. A Fund of Hedge Funds (FOF) spreads investments among a number of hedge funds to reduce risk and provide diversification, while maintaining the potential for higher than average returns. Odds are that some pension fund of yours is invested heavily in these products, and more recently these FOFs have been opened to more and more individual investors in offshore jurisdictions with lower minimum entry levels. Since this is a new and extremely fast-moving financial phenomenon, academic research has just begun in earnest, and this is the first book to present rigorous academic research by some of the leading lights in academic finance, carefully analyzing the broad array of issues involved in FOFs. * With over $450 billion in assets, hedge funds of funds are the darling of investors * First book to present rigorous academic research about funds of funds * Leading lights in academic finance from around the world analyze the broad array of issues involved in funds of funds.

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