IMF essays from a time of crises

the international financial system,stabilization, and development

Stanley Fischer served as First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001. IMF Essays from a Time of Crisis collects sixteen essays written for the most part during his time at the IMF, each updated with Fischer's later reflections ...

Multinational finance

Multinational Finance is an authoritative and comprehensive description of the theory and practice of international finance and its management. This fifth edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, offering a user-friendly guide to the subject that moves through the basics to the advanced with ...

The political economy of financial crises

This important and timely two volume colection presents the key issues and processes that surround recent large-scale financial crises - in Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere - and identifies procedures that will help to avoid and menage crises. The articles are drawn from leading journals in political ...

International money relations in the new global economy

These volumes contain the best articles political scientists have published in recent years on international monetery relations. They cover every conceivable topic of interest, incluiding the domestic politics of capital mobility, monetary institutions, and policy cooperation.

Yihad

cómo se financia el terrorismo en la nueva economía

Se trata del primer libro sobre la nueva economía del terrorismo islámico actual. Su autora, una especialista en terrorismo, economía y mundo árabe, ofrece una perspectiva inédita: el terrorismo islámico, afirma Napoleoni, no es religioso en realidad, sino económico.A lo largo de este último ...

The future of global financial services

This book explores the future of the financial services industry, giving readers an idea of the kinds of institutions and services that will survive in the early twenty-first century. An informative and provocative exploration of the future of the financial services industry. Focuses on likely ...

El nuevo orden financiero

el riesgo en el siglo XXI

Elegido #mejor libro del año 2003# por el Financial Times, el último trabajo del profesor y economista de prestigio mundial Robert J. Shiller, presenta seis propuestas revolucionarias para gestionar el riesgo y llevar a cabo una democratización de las finanzas que asegure nuestro porvenir económico ...

Global capital markets

integration, crisis, and growth

This book presents an economic survey of international capital mobility from the late nineteenth century to the present. ÍNDICE: Part I. Preamble: 1. Global capital markets: overview and origins: 1.1 Theoretical benefits.1.2 Problems of supernational capital markets in practice.1.3 The ...

International funds

a practical guide to their establishment and operation

'International Funds' will provide readers with: A greater understanding of the benefits and limitations of funds to both retail and institutional investors An easy-to-read, yet technically comprehensive, insight into fund structures An overview of the variety of legal structures, regulatory categories and investment profiles available ...

La finance mondialisée

racines sociales et politiques, configuration, conséquences

Le néolibéralisme a déjà une histoire. Depuis les années 1980, les performances de l#économie mondiale ont dépendu de façon croissante de l#humeur et de la santé des « marchés » et des institutions # fonds de pension, sociétés d#assurance, banques # qui transforment l#épargne en ...

Le capitalisme clandestin

l'illusoire régulation des places offshore

L#économie capitaliste a trouvé ses « moutons noirs », ces paradis fiscaux et financiers qui sapent la confiance des investisseurs et déstabilisent le libre marché. Une série de scandales politico- financiers a révélé les effets pervers de la mobilité croissante des flux financiers, les usages délictueux ...

Macroeconomic policies in the world economy

The integration of goods and financial markets has progressed on a global scale in recent years. Thus, the cyclical patterns in the world economy may have changed too. Against this background, experts in international economics analyze the synchronization of business cycles and their volatility in ...

Saving capitalism from the capitalists

unleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity

Capitalism#s biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action. Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist ...

The making of global finance 1880-1913

This book traces the roots of global financial integration in the first "modern" era of globalization, from 1880 to 1913. It analyzes the direction, destinations, and origins of international financial flows in order to determine the domestic policy choices that either attracted or deterred such ...

Sovereign risk and financial crises

Sovereign risk and financial crises play a key role in current international economic developments, particularly in the case of economic downturns. As the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s revealed once again, financial crises are the rule rather than the exception in capitalist economies ...

Les crises financières

Les crises financières se sont multipliées depuis quelques années. Elles ont aussi changé de nature. La plupart de ces crises restent difficiles à prévoir, et même leur interprétation après coup est sujette à discussion. Les pays développés passent en général le cap des crises financières ...

Hot money and the politics of debt

Explains the origins of a pool of hot and homeless money, its uses and abuses and how the world of high finance, corporate and governmental, became hostage to it A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It ...

Managing global financial and foreign exchange rate risk

INDICE Chapter 1. Global Markets: Transactions and Risks. Chapter 2. Balance of Payments Exposure Management. Chapter 3. Foreign Exchange Rate Dynamics: Managing Exposure. Chapter 4. Application of Options and Futures for Managing Exposure. Chapter 5. Principles of Futures: Pricing and Applications. Chapter 6. Interest Rate ...

Monetary Unions and hard pegs

effects on trade, financial development, and stability

Eds. Volbert Alexander, Jacques Mélitz, George M. Von Furstenberg This book analyses formal approaches to overcoming monetary divisions within countries and within integrating regions, focusing on the consequences of monetary union for trade among union members and their financial development and stability ÍNDICE:PART I ...

Exhaustion of the dollar

its implications for global prosperity

The U.S. dollar has served as the key currency of the international economic/financial system for over fifty years. This study assesses the proposition that the series of U.S. current-account deficits over the last twenty years will shortly exhaust the capability of the ...