Globalization and finance

The globalization of finance is widely recognised as one of the most significant features of the contemporary world. In this timely new book, Tony Porter guides students through current debates about global finance and discusses the extent to which the development of a global marketplace ...

Risk management

challenge and opportunity

Dealing with all aspects of risk management that have undergone significant innovation in recent years, this book aims at being a reference work in its field. Different to other books on the topic, it addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the different risk management types ...

Global governance of financial systems

the international regulation of systemic risk

The book sets forth the economic rationale for international financial regulation and what role, if any, international regulation can play in effectively managing systemic risk while providing accountability to all affected nations. The book suggests that a particular type of global governance structure is necessary ...

The new masters of capital

american bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness

The world's banker

a story of failed states, financial crises and the wealth and poverty of nations

Appointed president of the World Bank in 1995, James Wolfensohn struck it like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Franklin Roosevelt and his world War II allies. Wolfensohn embraced debt relief for the poorest countries, put taboo subjects such as corruption on ...

Challenges for Central Banks in an enlarged EMU

Banking for family business

a new challenge for wealth management

What is Banking for Family Business? What's special about it? How does the Family Banker contribute to the creation of value for entrepreneur families? The book covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the ways family bankers really work, the relations between private ...

El espacio financiero único de la Unión Europea

los mercados de valores

Small customers, big market

commercial banks in microfinance

Financial exclusion

This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. This has emerged as a major international policy issue. There is growing evidence that ...

El gobierno de las cooperativas de crédito en España

El presente estudio tiene por objeto contribuir al debate sobre el gobierno de las empresas en España, abordando un sector empresarial poco explorado: el de las cooperativas de crédito. Las cooperativas, empresas de economía social, se hallan regidas por unas reglas, los Principios Cooperativos, entre ...

El liderazgo social de las Cajas de Ahorro

La independencia del Banco Central Europeo

El Banco Central Europeo es uno de los bancos centrales del mundo con mayor autonomía; para muchos, el Banco Central Europeo constituye el modelo de banca central independiente. La normativa europea garantiza, a través de diferentes mecanismos, este máximo nivel de autonomía, dotando al banco ...

El crédito al consumo en España

La financiación socialmente responsable

el microcrédito en España

¿Es factible unir dos conceptos aparentemente antagónicos? ¿Se puede actuar con responsabilidad social a la hora de tramitar un crédito? El microcrédito lo hace posible. Se trata de un préstamo de bajo importe y sin garantías, destinado a personas que por su situación de exclusión ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro-Area

macro modelling, learning and empirics

The emergence of a new macro economy in Euro-Asia is a great challenge for academics and policy makers alike. Our book focuses on this macro economy and the monetary and fiscal policy responses. As the new environment has evolved over time, private behaviour as well ...

Historia de las Cajas de Ahorros: nuevas perspectivas

(Revista Papeles de Economía Española, Nº105/106, año 2005)

The monetary and financial system

Management and organisation in financial services