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New financial instruments and institutions

opportunitoes and policy challenges

Japan's financial institutions and instruments are closely related to the United States model. In both countries, new financial instruments, such as structured financial products and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and new financial institutions - which include hedge funds and private equity funds - present opportunities as well ...

Value at risk and bank capital management

risk adjusted performances, capital management and capital allocation decision making

While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA can be effectively used to improve ...

Economic evolution and equilibrium

bridging the Gap

This work uses various model frameworks to study the evolution of equilibria in an open loop evolving economy in which the model characteristics evolve without any directional restrictions except for continuity. Applying mathematical methods, it is shown that equilibria can always be adapted in a ...

Regulating jurisdictional relations between national and international Courts

This book seeks to investigate the growing jurisdictional interaction between national and international courts ie: their parallel involvement in the same or related disputes in the light of competing theoretical, ideological and methodological discourses on the nature of the relationship and the means to regulate ...

Innovation, industrial dynamics and structural trnsformation

schumpeterian legacies

This book provides an account of work in the Schumpeterian and evolutionary tradition of industrial dynamics and the evolution of industries. It is shown that over time, industries evolve and change their structure. In this dynamic process, change is affected and sometimes constraint by many ...

Law, war and crime

war crimes trials and the reinvention of international Law

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict. In his new book, "Law, War and Crime", Gerry Simpson explores the ...

The Blackwell companion to globalization

This Companion features 35 original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations. The essays focus on ...

Fair trials

the european criminal procedural tradition and the european court of Human Rights

The right to a fair trial has become an issue of increasing public concern, following a series of high profile cases such as the Bulger case, Khan (Sultan) and R. v D.P.P. ex p. Kebilene. In determining the scope of the right, we ...

The world economy towards global disequilibrium

American-Asian indifference and european fears

This book stresses how the rise of China and India has completely changed the world economy, moving it towards disequilibrium. Several alternative economic policies are tested to seek a way towards high growth in any continent associated with long-run real and financial equilibrium. The Authors ...

Tax compliance and tax morale

a theoretical and empirical analisys

Agglomeration, technology and business groups

"Agglomeration, Technology and Business Groups" critically reviews the reasons for the creation of business groups and examines their main characteristics. The authors demonstrate that any useful investigation of the organization and strategies of firms needs to take the business group as the basic unit of ...

Globalisation, development and transitio

conversations with eminent economists

This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international economic development literature and scrutinizes some of the most important debates in contemporary economics. Brian ...

Keynes, the keynesians and monetarism

"Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism" is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy-making. Tim Congdon has been a strong supporter of monetarist economic principles for over 30 years. His writings - in the newspapers and for parliamentary committees, as well as in academic ...

Untangling the US deficit

evaluationg causes, cures and global imbalances

From a situation of near zero in 1990, the US current account deficit has expanded to a record level of almost $900 billion in 2006. Debate about the deficit's causes and consequences has also grown. Is the deficit a product of American profligacy or ...

Mortgage-backed securities

products, structuring and analytical techniques

Since the last edition of Mortgage-Backed Securities was published over three years ago, much has changed in the structured credit market. Frank Fabozzi, Anand Bhattacharya, and William Berliner all have many years of experience working in the fixed-income securitization markets, and have witnessed many cycles ...

Nonprofit marketing best practices

From a leader in nonprofit marketing, this is a hands on guide to the best practices in doing marketing for your organization. In today's challenging economic climate, every nonprofit organization needs an organization wide commitment to a comprehensive marketing strategy that increases awareness and ...

The history of cruel and unusual

This title offers a searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse ...

China's financial transition at a crossroads

Drawing on the contemporary research of prominent international scholars, the experts in this volume outline the trajectory of China's financial markets since the advent of reform and anticipate their uncertain future. The book begins with an overview of the history of financial-sector development, regulation ...

The Oxford handbook of political behavior

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...

The Oxford handbook of Comparative Politcs

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual ...