Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Does Financial Development Improve or Worsen Income Distribution?
(Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee and Ruixin Zhang, The Center for Research on International Economics and Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI)

Chapter 2. Optimized Uptrend and Downtrend Pattern Templates for Financial Markets Trading Based on a GA Kernel
(Paulo Parracho, Antonio Canelas, Rui Neves and Nuno Horta, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico Torre Norte, Lisboa, Portugal)

Chapter 3. Is there a Gain in Combining Low Risk and Fundamental Investment Objectives in Portfolio Allocation?
(Kris Boudt and Marjan Wauters, Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Economics and Business, VU University Amsterdam, and others)

Chapter 4. Using Alternative Investments in a Multi-Asset Portfolio
(Andrew Clark, Alternative Investment Research, Lipper)

Chapter 5. Reconsidering RIP under Inflation Targeting: An Empirical Investigation
(Hui Ding and Jaebeom Kim, Department of Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA)

Chapter 6. With Strings Toward Safety Future on Financial Markets
(Richard Pincak, Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonovam, Kosice, Slovak Republic, and others)

Chapter 7. A General Approach to Risk Disclosure for Retail Investors
(Ekaterina Svetlova and Karl-Heinz Thielmann, Karlshochschule
International University, Karlsruhe, Germany, and others)

Chapter 8. The Law and Regulation of Chinese Mergers and Acquisitions: The Takeover Measures
(Xiaojing Song and Mark Tippett, Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK, and others)

Chapter 9. A Quantitative Model of Speculative Attack: Game Complete Analysis and Possible Normative Defenses
(David Carfi and Fabrizio Lanzafame, Mathematics Department, University of California Riverside, California, USA, and others)

Index