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- Provides a systematic analysis of market prices from the perspective of households and firms to help readers to gain a more integrated view of financial markets
- Illustrates real-world examples to help readers to apply basic economic tools in discussions of highly topical issues in economics and finance
- Includes numerous exercises at the end of the book providing the reader with a comprehension check
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Thorsten Hens, Sabine Elmiger
About the authors
Thorsten Hens is a Swiss Finance Institute Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich as well as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen and the University of Lucerne. He studied in Bonn and Paris and previously held positions in Stanford and Bielefeld.
Sabine Elmiger is a research associate at the University of Zurich and visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town. She studied at the ETH Zurich and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Foundations for Finance
Book Subtitle: From Main Street to Wall Street
Authors: Thorsten Hens, Sabine Elmiger
Series Title: Springer Texts in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05427-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05425-0Published: 29 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05427-4Published: 20 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-4333
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4341
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Finance, general, Quantitative Finance, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods