Introducción al sistema financiero

Este libro, tras destacar los rasgos más relevantes del sector financiero y las razones de su existencia, introduce al lector en los elementos fundamentales de un sistema financiero, a saber: instrumentos, mercados e intermediarios financieros, centrándose a continuación en los que operan en España y ...

Agenda for a new economy

from phantom wealth to real wealth

Today's economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression. However, as David Korten shows in this timely new book, the steps being taken to address it including pouring trillions of dollars into bailouts for the Wall Street institutions that created the mess - do ...

Risk management for central banks and other public investors

Eds. Ulrich Bindseil, Fernando González, Evangelos Tabakis. Domestic and foreign financial assets of all central banks and public wealth funds world wide are estimated to have reached more than 10 trillion US dollars in 2007. How do these institutions manage such unprecedented growth in their ...

Islamic finance

Law, economics, and practice

This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-seeking legal-arbitrage. In every ...

Productos y servicios financieros y de seguros básicos

Obra dirigida a alumnos y profesores del Ciclo Formativo de Grado Medio Gestión Administrativa, ya que sus contenidos están adaptados al crédito del mismo nombre. Tras un primer capítulo de introducción, el libro se estructura en dos grandes bloques. El primero tiene un carácter matemático ...

Bernanke's Test

Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and the drama of the Central Banker

This title offers an up-to-the-minute look at the challenge facing Fed chair Ben Bernanke in trying to clean up the problems affecting the U.S. economy that he inherited from his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, informed by a historical look at how other central bankers have ...

Managed by the markets

how finance re-shaped America

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and ...

Inestabilidad financiera y gestión de liquidez

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº95, año 2009)

The spectre at the feast

capitalist crisis and the politics of recession

This important new book by a leading authority sets the financial crisis of 2007/8 in historical context and assesses its global consequences, how far it might go, and what is to be done. It offers an in-depth and intellectually rigorous look at the current ...

City bankers, 1890-1914

This book is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Translated into English for the first time, it provides a detailed analysis of the banking ...

Al rescate de los paraísos fiscales

la cortina de humo del G-20

Tras las recientes cumbres de Washington y de Londres, la pretendida refundación del capitalismo se ha concretado en el rescate de los paraísos fiscales por el G-20 como centros financieros homologados para no residentes. Y mientras las ayudas multimillonarias de los gobiernos a los bancos ...

Central banking in a free society

The author covers the Northern Rock affair and the subsequent instability in the UK financial system in the context of the history and desired future role of the Bank of England as a central bank. Tim Congdon, a respected monetary economist, shows how the Bank ...

Busted

life inside the great mortgage meltdown

This is the story of the fiasco that sank millions of Americans, including one journalist, who thought he knew better. A "The New York Times" economics reporter, Edmund L. Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages. But, eager to start a ...

Risk and financial catastrophe

Risk and Financial Catastrophe presents an in-depth discussion of the nature and consequences of financial disasters and the pragmatic solutions that must be considered in order to cope with such crises in the future. This highly topical book tackles technical issues in a readable, non-mathematical ...

Foundations of banking risk

an overview of banking, banking risks and risk-based banking regulation

GARP's "Foundations of Banking Risk and Regulation" introduces risk professionals to the advanced components and terminology in banking risk and regulation globally. It helps them develop an understanding of the methods for the measurement and management of credit risk and operational risk, and the ...

Global imbalances and the financial crisis

Mergers and acquisitions in european banking

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are a key phenomenon in financial markets. The volume of M&A transactions has risen since the 1990s in most countries and industries. The M&A phenomenon is particularly exciting in European banking: while European banking consolidation was a minor ...

Too big to fail

the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system and themselves

On a mid-September morning in 2008, Americans awoke to discover the unthinkable: The nation's financial system was in free fall. One of Wall Street's most prestigious investment banks, Lehman Brothers, had filed for bankruptcy, and the equally illustrious Merrill Lynch was forced to ...

Regulation of banks and finance

theory and policy after the credit crisis

As the financial crisis engulfs the world economy, there is an ambitious agenda for regulatory reform in parliaments and government agencies. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach using economics, finance and the literature on law and economics, to illuminate past and present banking and financial ...

Principles of money, banking and financial markets

Well-known for its engaging, conversational style, this text makes sophisticated concepts accessible, introducing students to how markets and institutions shape the global financial system and economic policy. Principles of Money, Banking & Financial Markets incorporates current research and data while taking stock of sweeping changes in ...