Inside and outside liquidity

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk ...

Exchange traded funds

a concise guide to ETFs

The progress of exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the 21st century has been impressive. They are being used more and more widely as an investment approach and the range of asset classes that they cover has reached the point where a diversified portfolio of investments ...

Mastering the currency market

forex stretegies for high- and low- volatility markets

Foreign exchange in plain English Accessible and highly practical, Mastering the Currency Market offers intermediate to advanced traders welltested foreign exchange techniques for both volatile and non- volatile markets. The authors cover the basics of the foreign exchange market, then examine more advanced topics, such ...

Dirección financiera

un enfoque centrado en valor y riesgo

Cada vez más, la gestión del riesgo financiero se configura como una responsabilidad clave de la gestión financiera, no solo para entidades financieras y corporaciones sino también para empresas de dimensión media y pequeña. Este trabajo examina la problemática de la dirección financiera desde la ...

Forex on five hours a week

how to make money trading on your own time

In this title, a top forex trader reveals how to ease into this market and excel. Trading the forex market has become one of the most popular forms of trading, mainly because of its twenty-four-hour access and the fact that there is always a bull ...

The great inflation and its aftermath

the past and future of american affluence

Samuelson, a columnist for the Washington Post and Newsweek, presents a highly readable and thought-provoking discussion of the crippling inflation that hit the United States from the mid-1960s to 1982, resulting in four recessions. According to the author, the culprit of inflation was the collective ...

Forex trading secrets

trading strategies for the Forex market

This is an insider's guide to profiting in the foreign exchange market. Picking up where his highly successful "Forex Made Easy" left off, James Dicks helps readers implement specific trading strategies and build a successful trading plan. Other topics of this title include money ...

Interest rates, exchange rates and world monetary policy

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him - he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen ...

Financial alchemy in crisis

the great liquidity illusion

In July 2007, the combination of a seemingly unstoppable rise in house prices and bullish banks swimming in liquidity meant that almost anyone could get a mortgage in the UK or US. Little more than a month later the supply of credit dried up practically ...

Global imbalances and the lessons of Bretton Woods

Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable. In "Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods", Barry Eichengreen takes issue with the ...

The economics of Foreign Exchange and global finance

CONTENTS: Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Rates.- Exchange Rate Regimes and International Monetary Systems.- International Parity Conditions.- Balance of Payments and International Investment Positions.- Open Economy Macroeconomics.- Balance of Payments Issues and Exchange Rate Movements.- The Mundell-Fleming-Model.- The Flexible Price Monetary Model.- The Dornbusch ...

The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook

strategies and trade set-ups

This is a practical guide to trading the foreign exchange market. "The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook" offers a visual approach to learning specific trading strategies and identifying profitable trading opportunities in the Forex arena. Page by page, it skillfully describes strategies for long-term trading, swing ...

Technical analysis in the FX Markets

discussions with market analysts and strategists

'Technical Analysis in the FX Markets' comprises interviews with 13 market analysts from around the world. Each chapter provides essential and in-depth descriptions of techniques that are most effective in trading the global currency markets.

Day trading and swing trading the currency market

technical and fundamental strategies to profit from market moves

Discover a variety of technical and fundamental profit-making strategies for trading the currency market with the second edition of "Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market". In this book, Kathy Lien-Director of Currency Research for one of the most popular Forex providers in the ...

Demystifying exotic products

interest rates, equities and foreign exchange

One reason for financial crises is investors misusing and misunderstanding exotic products. Proper understanding of exotic structures might have helped. "Demystifying Exotic Products" contains the fundamentals on exotic products in relation to Interest rates, equity and FX exotics. This practical guidebook discusses how the product ...

The economics of foreign exchange and global finance

This book presents all major subjects in international monetary theory, foreign exchange markets, international financial management and investment analysis. It is relevant to real world problems in the sense that it provides guidance on how to solve policy issues as well as practical management tasks ...

A foreign exchange primer

This book will provide a thorough introduction to the foreign exchange markets, looking at the main products through to the techniques used, coverage of the main participants, details of the various players, and an understanding of the jargon used in everyday dealings. Written in a ...

Biography of the dollar

how the mighty buck conquered the world and why it's under siege

For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It's not only the currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel of global prosperity. As the superengine of the world's only superpower, it's accepted everywhere. When an Asian ...

International finance in emerging markets

issues, welfare economics analyses and policy implications

The book "International Finance in Emerging Markets" reviews contemporary issues in international monetary and financial economics in an emerging financial market using the example of Thailand. The book adopts the elements of new welfare economics and asymmetric information paradigms in analyzing those issues including financial ...

Monetary theory and Bretton Woods

the construction of an international monetary order

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged ...