Designing central banks

Eds. David Mayes, Geoffrey Wood. The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the North- Northern European Central Banking Tradition ...

Moving money

the future of consumer payments

Eds. Robert E. Litan, Martin Neil Baily. Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with 0s and 1s-digital entries on credit or debit cards, or electronic messages sent over the Internet. Digital money moves faster, more cheaply, and is ...

The road ahead for the fed

Eds. John D. Ciorciari, John B. Taylor. A broken financial system; a great recession; enormous challenges for The Federal Reserve. Financial institutions, the markets and the Fed itself will never be quite the same. John Taylor and John Ciorciari have brought together a highly knowledgeable ...

Money and banking

an international text

Focuses on the core issues in money and banking. This book provides students with a background in how financial markets work, how banks as businesses function, how central banks make decisions, and how monetary policy affects the global economy.

The dollar meltdown

surviving the impending currency crisis with gold, oil, and other unconventional investments

Is your money inflation-proof? It had better be. On the heels of the most recent economic crisis, America is headed toward another: high inflation and dollar devaluation. Charles Goyette reveals the governmental errors that led to the current economic crisis and the bumpy road ahead ...

Fraudes, estafas y falsificaciones

toda la verdad sobre los engaños más grandes de la historia

"Fraudes, estafas y falsificaciones" muestra todos aquellos sucesos basados en el engaño que han trascendido a la Historia por su habilidad, notoriedad y perduración en el tiempo, y que ha pasado desapercibidos ante sus víctimas.

Stabilité financière et banques centrales

"Le système financier est au coeur de l'activité économique. C'est en son sein que l'épargne est convertie en investissements productifs, sources de croissance et de propspérité, et que sont déterminés le coût du capital et les primes de risques associées aux différentes ...

La era de las turbulencias

aventuras en un nuevo mundo

Alan Greenspan (Nueva York, 1926) ha sido asesor de Richard Nixon y presidente de la Reserva Federal de EE. UU. entre 1987 y 2006, con Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton y George W. Bush. Observador privilegiado y comentarista único de la situación ...

A history of money

from ancient times to the present day

This is a straight-forward, readable account, written with the minimum of jargon, of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different peoples throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. The revised and updated paperback edition published ...

The evolution of monetary policy and banking in the US

A concise analysis of the evolution of monetary policy and banking institutions over the past sixty years that stresses the dynamic interactions between the Federal Reserve and banking institutions that resulted from financial market innovations. Institutions were influenced by increasing competition in markets and monetary ...

The age of turbulence

adventures in a new world

With a new chapter on the current credit crisis.

The origin of financial crises

Central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of ...

The origins of financial crises

central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy

"The Origin of Financial Crises" provides a compelling analysis of the forces behind today's economic crisis. In a series of disarmingly simple arguments George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy, explaining why financial markets do not obey the efficient market ...

Innovation and institutions

an institutional perspective on the innovative efforts of banks and insurance companies

This new book uses extensive and multifaceted data and sophisticated data analysis to explore product innovation in the financial services sector. Merging academic and critical analysis with practical recommendations for companies, this book provides a full and rich account of how new products are brought ...

Money, interest, and policy

dynamic general equilibrium in a non-ricardian world

This work develops the argument that moving from "Ricardian" dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to "non-Ricardian" models solves many puzzles and paradoxes in monetary issues that might have cast doubt on the DSGE methodology for monetary economics. An important recent advance in macroeconomics is the ...

Currency competition and foreign exchange markets

the dollar, the yenand the euro

Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets by Philipp Hartmann of the European Central Bank is a major theoretical and empirical study of international currencies, which focuses on the role which the Euro will play in the international monetary and financial system along with the US ...

Money and liberation

the micropolitica of alternative currency movements

Is conventional money simply a discourse? Is it merely a socially constructed unit of exchange? If money is not an actual thing, are people then free to make collective agreements to use other forms of currency that might work more effectively for them? Proponents of ...

Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points

exchange rates, parity and market behavior

Officer begins this book with a historical perspective of the monetary standards of the United States and Britain. He then develops data on exchange rates, mint parity and gold points, with which he investigates three important features of Anglo-American monetary history. First, the integration of ...

Money and payments in theory and practice

International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation. Departing from ...

Monetary economics in developing countries

This book highlights the basic principles of monetary economics and their application to developing countries. Fully illustrated and written in an accessible style, it will be an attractive to students wanting to understand the economic aspects of development and those researching in the area. The ...