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 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 ...

Capitalism, not globalism

capital mobility, central bank independence, and the political control of the economy

While much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists in his assertion ...

Financial structure

an investigation of sectoral balance sheets in the G-7

Cross-country comparisons of sectoral balance sheets offer crucial indications of differences in overall financial structure, which in turn underlie contrasts in financing and economic behaviour. In this context, this book aims to confront theory and extant empirical work with aggregate financial data across the G-7 ...

The new financial order

risk in the 21st Century

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts ...

Cómo vender productos y servicios financieros

En el sector financiero, cada día es más difícil, y por ello más importante, estar preparado para convencer al cliente de que nuestra empresa ofrece el mejor producto o servicio del mercado. De una forma clara, sencilla y concisa, este libro transmite las técnicas de ...

Monnaie, système financier et politique monétaire.

Financial structure and economic growth

a cross-country comparison of banks, markets, and development

Redefining financial services

the new renaissance in value propositions

Sector exterior español

Experimental economics

how we can build better financial markets

In a little more than thirty years, the field of experimental economics has gone from obscurity to international recognition with the presentation of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics to Vernon L. Smith, who took a classroom exercise he saw as a Harvard graduate student ...

Productos y servicios financieros

nivel superior

El Sistema Financiero Español y el estudio más detallado del funcionamiento de algunas instituciones que lo componen, como es el Banco de España, la banca comercial, la bolsa, etc. nos sirven como punto de partida para analizar después los distintos productos y servicios financieros que ...

Designing financial systems in transition economies

strategies for reform in Central and Eastern Europe

This collection examines the design of financial systems for central and eastern European countries engaged in the transition to market-based economies. It highlights the need for better approaches to measuring performance and providing incentives in banking and for financial mechanisms to encourage private-sector growth. Written ...

Capital flows without crisis?

reconciling capital mobility and economic stability

El sistema financiero argentino

estructura, operaciones y normas

Framing financial structure in an information environment

The chastening

inside the crisis that rocked the global financia system and humbled the IMF

An author who tries to write an engaging book about the International Monetary Fund faces a daunting task. Who besides devoted readers of The Financial Times would want to read it? With The Chastening, however, Paul Blustein offers a remarkably accessible account of this off-putting ...

Práctica y normalizacion del sistema y los medios de pago

Financial structure and economic growth

a cross-country comparison of banks, markets, and development

This is the first broad cross-country assessment of the ties between financial structure -- the mix of financial instruments, institutions, and markets in a given economy -- and economic growth since Raymond Goldsmith's 1969 landmark study. Most studies focus on developed countries and compare bank-based and ...

Structure and agency in international capital mobility

This book highlights the importance of mobile resources as a feature of globalization, and challenges the received wisdom about the causes and effects of international capital mobility. From a world concerned with strategic weapons and the risks of mutual annihilation, a new world order is ...