Recent developments on exchange rates

This collection examines recent developments in exchange rate analysis. In the first part, two exchange rate models are proposed: a model which combines heterogeneous agents and transaction costs, and a dynamic general-equilibrium two-country sticky-price model. The second part of the book deals with econometric aspects ...

The political economy of exchange rate policy-making

from the gold standard to the Euro

Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 ...

Capital flows and crises

The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He ...

The psychology of the foreign exchange market

This book demystifies the foreign exchange market by focusing on the people who comprise it. Drawing on the expertise of the very professionals whose decisions help shape the market, Thomas Oberlechner describes the highly interdependent relationship between financial decision makers and news providers, showing that ...

Mercados internacionales

inversiones extranjeras

Este libro está especialmente enfocado para dar a conocer a través de un Business Game-Simulador, la posición de un inversor nacional (local) de cualquier país que se enfrenta al reto de decidir donde puede invertir sus ahorros en el corto plazo, independientemente de las formas ...

Regulating the financial sector in the era of globalization

perspectives from political economy and management

The world's financial landscape is transforming as economies become increasingly interdependent. In Regulating the Financial Sector in the Era of Globalization, Zuhayr Mikdashi examines the role of public authorities and of business executives in the prevention, moderation, containment and resolution of financial problems. The ...

Dictionary of financial abbreviations

The commonwealth banking and offshore Almanac 2002/3

La Banca Centrale Europea

gli aspetti istituzionali della banca centrale della Comunità Europea

Foreign exchange intervention as a monetary policy instrument

evidence for inflaction targeting countries

World finance and economic stability

selected essays of James Tobin

Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economics and policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare ...

Financial crisis, contagion, and containment

from Asia to Argentina

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South ...

Critical issues in international financial reform

This work covers weaknesses of the international financial system and potential beneficial reforms. The focus is on the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, but it also takes into account relevant lessons from the experience of Canada, a country integrated into world and hemisphere ...

Dangerous markets

managing in financial crises

The financial and social costs of rebuilding an economy after a financial crisis are wide reaching. From consumers and businesses to outside investors, everyone pays for the crisis through devalued currency, higher taxes, loss of employment and savings, and investment losses. This text presents an ...

International accounting and finance handbook

INDICE PART I: GLOBALIZATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS. PART II: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS PART III: WORLD SCENE OF ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING PRACTICES PART IV: INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING HARMONIZATION PART V: REPORTING ISSUES PART VI: INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER PRICING AND TAXATION PART VII: INTERNATIONAL AUDITING

International money and finance

Melvin's International Money and Finance offers a concise survey of international finance. The basics of the foreign exchange market, balance of payments, international investment, and links among interest rates, prices, and exchange rates are presented, along with the latest research findings related to the ...

Tipos de cambios y crisis financieras

Este libro analiza, en primer lugar, el papel de los regímenes monetarios y de las políticas de tipo de cambio en las estrategias de desinflación adoptadas en las economías emergentes durante las últimas décadas, prestando especial atención a los problemas asociados a la credibilidad del ...

An international finance reader

International Finance is one of the most important areas of interest in economics and business. With the freeing up of international capital over the last half-century, money has flowed in and out of countries at amazing rates. This collection, featuring such experts as Barry Eichengreen ...

Las trampas de las finanzas mundiales

diagnóstico y remedios

Este libro parte de una grave constatación: la mundialización de la actividad financiera ha provocado inestabilidad y crisis, y ha favorecido un reparto de la riqueza que beneficia a los accionistas y a las rentas del capital en detrimento del empleo y de las rentas ...

International financial operations

arbitraje, hedging, speculation, financing and investment