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Describes what the authors consider are fundamental building blocks for geometric computer vision or structure-from-motion: epipolar geometry, pose and motion estimation, 3D scene modeling, and bundle adjustment. The main goal is to highlight the core principles of these, which are independent of specific camera models.

Provides the most comprehensive review of all major research domains involving credit default swaps (CDS). CDS have been growing in importance in the global financial markets. However, their role has been hotly debated, in industry and academia, particularly since the credit crisis of 2007-2009.

Details the important econometric area of efficiency estimation, both past approaches as well as new methodology. There are two main camps in efficiency analysis: Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). This volume focuses exclusively on SFA.

International transfer pricing determines how the worldwide income of a multinational corporation is divided among countries for income tax purposes when transactions occur within the firm. This review examines economics, accounting, legal research, and tax practitioner literatures on international transfer pricing.

Reviews what economists do and do not know about the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of pollution monitoring and enforcement. The focus is mainly on lessons for and from the US policy environment, but discusses important research findings from international settings as well.

Provides an overview of how liquidity is measured and of specialized issues in liquidity measurement. The book also examines what is known about cross-sectional and time-series patterns in liquidity. The authors then review how liquidity relates to the corporate finance literature.

A monograph that offers a model and examples of relevant relationships to show how the complexity of family entrepreneurship could be disentangled in order to generate interesting research questions.

Explains the various shifts in the balance of power between a group of large international vertically integrated firms (the Seven Sisters), and a group of oil producing countries (OPEC) in the fight for control over global oil markets.

Takes an in-depth look at corporate governance mechanisms in entrepreneurial firms, and offers an explanation on how and why they differ from those mechanisms in large and publicly traded corporations.

Explores policy interventions aimed at improving water allocation decisions and assesses the impact on regions and sectors by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical framework.

Analyses and compares the policy responses in the United Kingdom and the United States to the mad cow disease crisis. The book draws a number of lessons from the mad cow experience regarding how one should regulate invasive species risks and deal with dimly understood but potentially serious risks to large populations.

Puts into perspective one of the most persistent empirical phenomena in finance: equity home bias. The book provides a review of the competing measures of home bias, the explanations for the equity home bias, and lay out the implications of international under-diversification for portfolio formation and the cost of capital of companies.

Surveys for a general audience the Datalog language, recursive query processing, and optimization techniques. Topics covered include the core Datalog language and various extensions, semantics, query optimizations, magic-sets optimizations, incremental view maintenance, aggregates, negation, and types.

Reviews some of the key theoretical results and empirical findings in the recent literature on short-term forecasting, and translate these findings into economically meaningful techniques to facilitate their widespread application to compute short-term forecasts in economics, and to monitor the ongoing business cycle developments in real time.

Focuses on the creation of good jobs for the young. The book reviews the main factors influencing youth unemployment and the transition into the work force, and provides an overview of young people's situations in major world regions, with a particular emphasis on the role of training systems and complementary active labour market policies.

Focuses on accounting disclosure within a non-contractual setting in which Revelation Principle does not apply. The book examines a setting featuring a sender - a firm manager or a sell-side equity analyst - who has some information about a firm to communicate to a receiver - an investor - to help value the firm.

Provides a thorough examination of this topic for students and researchers alike. While nonparametric estimators are widely used to estimate the productive efficiency of firms and other organizations, it is often done without any attempt to make statistical inference.

Reviews and illustrates earnings management, conservatism, and their effects on earnings quality in an economic modeling framework. Both earnings management and conservative accounting introduce biases to financial reports. The primary issue addressed is what economic effects these biases have on earnings quality or financial reporting quality.

Explains the models and techniques used in this literature as simply as possible, with the intent of making the literature more accessible; introduces the reader to the main strands of this literature; and explains how dynamic models can be taken to the data and be estimated with the intent to provide a practical, hands-on guide.

Evidence suggests that cost-effective preventive measures are sometimes rewarded by insurers in ways that could change their clients' behavior. These examples reveal that insurance activities are not always in the best interest of individuals at risk. This book discusses such behavior with the intent of categorizing these insurance "anomalies".

Describes basic principles and recent developments in building approximate synopses (that is, lossy, compressed representations) of massive data. The book focuses on the four main families of synopses: random samples, histograms, wavelets, and sketches.

Analyzes the effects of long run relationships in banking between corporate borrowers and lenders. The author also analyzes the impact of competition on relationships, and reviews the evidence on direct importance of soft information in lending providing a validation of the continued specialness of banks.

Demonstrates how controls have been used to mitigate risk and to facilitate collaboration in inter-firm transactions. The authors highlight the central themes and identify emergent research streams that offer promise for advancing our understanding of inter-firm management controls.

Focuses predominantly on the problems and solutions proposed in traditional areas while also looking briefly at the emerging areas. To facilitate future research, a discussion of available resources, a list of public benchmark datasets and a discussion on future research directions are provided in the concluding sections.

Presents practical and conceptual issues related to fair value measurement in financial reporting and to evaluate certain research design aspects of empirical research that investigates the information properties of fair value measurement, both in an absolute sense and in comparison to other measurement bases.

Develops the foundational knowledge related to financial instruments and the markets in which they trade, financial institutions and their internal decision-making and external circumstances, and currently required and credible alternative financial reporting for financial instruments.

Explores the contributions of behavioral economics, laboratory experiments, and field experiments to our understanding of the economics of trust, trustworthiness, and reciprocal behavior. This monograph concludes with a summary of theory and experiments that have identified trust and reciprocity in economics and human behaviour.

The ways in which managers communicate information to capital market participants go far beyond financial statement numbers. Managers communicate economically relevant information both verbally, in documents distributed and available to investors, and non-verbally, through meetings and conference calls with analysts and investors. Over the past five years, the advances in computational linguistic software and the availability of large repositories of corporate text have facilitated an explosion of studies examining the information contained in verbal communication from management. Speech Analysis in Financial Markets reviews research on the information contained in nonverbal communication that occurs in organizational contexts and explores ways in which accounting researchers can draw useful insights from investigating managerial nonverbal communication. It focuses on non-verbal communication from voice with a particular emphasis on discussing voice analysis from the standpoint of a researcher interested in conducting empirical archival assessments. After an introduction, section 2 discusses the research approaches to speech analysis and the importance of identifying speech corpus. Section 3 reviews the existing literature on voice analysis in accounting and finance primarily focused on management communication. Section 4 details the challenges to the literature, and offers some directions for future research, and section 5 offers concluding remarks.