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

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

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 ...

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

International economics

The hallmark approach of this very successful market-leading text is its clear and concise treatment of international trade and finance theory illustrated with a wealth of the most up-to-date contemporary issues and cases. Carbaugh demonstrates the relevance of theory through real-world economic issues. Theoretical discussions ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Asian financial crisis

crisis, reform and recovery

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localized currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered "miracles", respond? How did the United States, Japan ...

The structural foundations of international finance

problems of growth and stability

The principal message of this book is that international financial enterprises must be re-oriented towards funding productive activities rather than potentially destabilizing speculation. The effects of financial sector operations are addressed with serious warnings that the dangers of speculative destabilization are increasing as regulatory and ...

Global governance and financial crises

Are global financial markets rational or are manias possible? Should crises be allowed to run their course and purge the system? Should a lender of last resort intervene to dampen their impact on the real economy? This text addresses these and other questions. The editors ...

The offshore world

sovereign markets, virtual places, and nomad millionaires

The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial centre in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable "offshore" banking centre. Indeed, it is estimated that half of ...

Global finance at risk

on real stagnation and instability

Sunanda Sen offers an analysis of the ongoing malaise in the world economy, which include the financial and real instability as well as economic recession and lack of development. Rejecting the explanations advanced by the orthodoxy, she deplores the retrograde steps in the interest of ...