The Financial Crisis [electronic resource] : Implications for Research and Teaching / edited by Ted Azarmi, Wolfgang Amann.

Introduction -- Finance and the Financial Crisis -- Corporate Governance and Restructuring Through Spin-Offs: European Evidence -- Alternative Specification of Bank Lending in France and Germany: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications -- Towards Banking Union in Europe - an Interim Assessment -- A World Without Money Needs No Banks and No Rating -- Detection of Put-Call Parity Violations with Limited Arbitrage: A Regulatory Tool for Detecting Financial Irregularity -- Enabling Holistic Finance Education in Turbulent Times -- Actual Problems of Finance Teaching in Ukraine in the Post-Crisis Period -- Executive Compensation and Risk Taking: The Impact of Systemic Crises -- Measuring the Success of Executive Education - Comprehensively Depicting Holistic Finance Education -- Conclusion.

This book brings together a good mix of academics and practitioners for a discussion that focuses on how to change financial practice and the academic field of finance in order to understand the current financial crisis and deal with future turbulent financial times. The volume is based on contributions by prominent academics and practitioners from Europe, Asia and the USA. The book contains several essays, most prominently by Maurizio Murgia, an internationally renowned European corporate finance scholar, and Robert E. Krainer, a senior professor with banking and business cycles research interest from University of Wisconsin-Madison. This book also deals with pedagogical, empirical and theoretical considerations in light of the crisis. .