Credit risk

pricing, measurement, and management

Central banking systems compared

The ECB, the pre-euro Bundesbank, and the Federal Reserve System

Information dissemination in currency crises

As the complexity of financial markets keeps growing, so does the need to understand the decision-making and the coordination of the exsuing actions in the marketplace. In particular, the disclosure of information to market participants and its impact on the market outcome mertis attention. This ...

Contabilidad bancaria

Financiera, de gestión y auditoría

Esta obra, fruto de la actividad de sus autores en el master en Banca y Mercados Financieros organizado e impartido en Santander por la Universidad de Cantabria y el Banco Santander Central Hispano, aborda el estudio de la actividad bancaria en España, explicando sus operaciones ...

Money demand in Europe

an empirical approach

The EURO has now been in place for more than two years, but only the future will tell if the ECB can manage the EURO currency in the long- term. This book discusses the economic principals underlying the demand for money, and the possibilities to ...

The macroeconomy of the Eurozone

an Irish perspective

This title is intended to provide readers with a framework to help them understand how the Irish economy functions as a member of the Eurozone. Among the topics discussed are: basic macroeconomic principles; open economy macroeconomic models; the role of fiscal, monetary, exchange rate, and ...

Asset management and investor protection

an international analysis

Scandals in financial institutions, weakness in the world economy, and volatility in financial markets bring to the fore issues of regulation and consumer protection. This comparative survey of how investors are currently protected in a range of European countries and the USA is set in ...

The monetary theory of production

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrument for the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquid wealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to the production of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Graziani challenges traditional theories of ...

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 ...

Management consultancy and banking in an era of globalization

Management consultancy and investment banking have been held up as industries at the forefront of contemporary globalization. Using an inter-disciplinary approach ranging across economics, economic geography, sociology and management studies, Andrew Jones analyzes the nature of globalization within business service transnational corporations in these sectors ...

Evolution and procedures in Central Banking

This volume collects the proceedings from a conference on the evolution and practice of central banking sponsored by the Central Bank Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The articles and discussants# comments in this volume largely focus on two questions: the need for ...

The political economy of monetary institutions

an international organization reader

Normal;Recent analysis by political economists of monetary institution determinants in different countries has been limited by the fact that exchange rate regimes and central bank institutions are studied in isolation from each other, without examining how one institution affects the costs and benefits of ...

Rentabilidad de la formación en la banca comercial

Las fundaciones bancarias

de cajas de ahorro a sociedades de captial : la experiencia italiana

L'ère des banques centrales

Les banques centrales évoluent... La modialisation, paradoxalement, a accru consodérablement le pouvoir et l'audience de ces institutions technocratiques, devenues des interlocuteurs majeurs des marchés. L'auter retrace les circonstances, les rèflexions et les étapes qui ont justifié et jalonné la montée en puissance des ...

Eurodelitos

el Derecho penal económico en la Unión Europea

Interest and prices

foundations of a theory of monetary policy

With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, any pretense of a connection of the world's currencies to any real commodity has been abandoned. Yet since the 1980s, most central banks have abandoned money- growth targets as practical guidelines for monetary policy as well ...

Money and banking

A survey of the role played by money and banking in the global economy. The book is an introduction for new bankers or students of banking, and a refresher for more experienced bankers preparing for coursework. Coverage ranges from interest rates to bank regulation, monetary ...

International corporate and investment banking

practice and law