Decent capitalism

a blueprint for reforming our economies

The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to rescue and bail out a globalised financial sector. Reform is promised by our leaders, but ...

Financial crisis

causes, context and consequences

Financial Crisis, penned by Adrian Buckley, offers a fascinating close- up analysis of the causes of the 2007/8 financial crisis and its consequences placing the world of finance under the microscope, bringing together evidence of the involvement of banks, governments and regulators. It questions ...

Finance at the threshold

rethinking the real and financial economies

Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one. Each has been preceded by a period of excessive monetary ease, and by ill thought out regulatory changes. For many the recent hiatus in inter-bank lending has been seen ...

Antitrust Law amidst financial crises

The ultimate goal of competition law is to promote competition and, in most jurisdictions, to enhance consumer welfare. Competition policy may be set aside due to special and exceptional circumstances, such as a financial crisis that threatens the stability of an economy. It is therefore ...

Inmigración y crisis económica

impactos actuales y perspectivas de futuro

Dirs. Eliseo Aja, Joaquín Arango, Josep Oliver Alonso. (Anuario de la Inmigración en España 2010). La edición 2010 del Anuario de la inmigración es España se centra, por un lado, en las consecuencias de la actual crisis económica tanto sobre el mercado de trabajo de ...

La salida de la crisis de 2008

con optimismo fundado

El presente libro, La salida de la crisis de 2008, ofrece con optimismo fundado, una interpretación en torno a la cuestión que se plantea. Se trata, por tanto, de la recuperación de la economía europea y, en concreto, de la española. Los indicios de ello ...

Liquidity and crises

Eds. Franklin Allen...[et al]. Financial crises have been pervasive for many years. Their frequency in recent decades has been double that of the Bretton Woods Period (1945- 1971) and the Gold Standard Era (1880-1993), comparable only to the period during the Great Depression. Nevertheless ...

Crises and opportunities

the shaping of modern finance

As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the Financial Debacle of 2008, this book asks the question: have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial system? Examining eight global financial crises since the late nineteenth century, this new ...

The bonds of debt

borrowing against the Common Good

Man is born free and is everywhere in debt,A" declared the Economist in the summer of 2010, a cheeky admission that indebtedness and liberation are once again on the agenda across the globe. In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst examines the current ...

Inside and outside liquidity

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk ...

La crisis económica en América Latina

alcances e impactos

El libro repasa la crisis financiera internacional y sus consecuencias de corto y mediano plazo en todo el mundo y, especialmente, en América Latina, que no fue excepción aunque, sorprendentemente, no se vio tan afectada. Asimismo examina los impactos de la crisis en el área ...

Credit risk frontiers

subprime crisis, pricing and hedging, CVA, MBS, ratings, and liquidity

Eds. Tomasz R. Bielecki, Damiano Brigo, Frédéric Patras. Credit derivatives are here to stay and will continue to play a role in finance in the future. But what will that role be? What issues and challenges should be addressed? And what lessons can be learned ...

Sin novedad en el débil frente de la recuperación

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº221, año 2011)

Este número 221 de Cuadernos de Información Económica correspondiente a marzo-abril 2011 continúa la bien asentada tradición de dedicar la parte prioritaria de su contenido al análisis y comentario de la situación coyuntural. La aparición en los meses de febrero y marzo de cada año ...

Japan's bubble, deflation and long-term stagnation

Eds. Koichi Hamada, Anil K. Kashyap, David E. Weinstein. Japan's economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, and the country entered its famous "lost decade"--a period of stagnation and economic disruption that persisted until 2003. The current declines in global equity and real ...

Rollback

repealing big government before the coming fiscal collapse

America is on the brink of financial collapse. Decades of political overpromising and underfunding have created a wave of debt that could swamp our already feeble economy. And the politicians# favorite tricks#raising taxes, borrowing from foreign governments, and printing more money#will only make ...

El blanqueo de capitales después de la crisis del sistema financiero

casos de prensa y manual de prevención

El blanqueo de capitales después de la crisis del sistema financiero está dirigida a servir como guía para una correcta prevención de blanqueo de capitales después de la crisis padecida por el sistema financiero, basada en la experiencia en Entidades de Crédito y Sociedades de ...

La primera crisis en la economía global

Coord. José Luis Sáez Lozano. Existe un consenso generalizado de que estamos ante la primera gran crisis, desde la Gran Depresión del siglo XX. En España, la crisis presenta algunas peculiaridades, que hacen que nuestro país se encuentre inmerso en la recesión económica y social ...

The economics of enough

how to run the economy as if the future matters

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the ...

Advantage

how american innovation can overcome the asian challenge

The emergence of India and China as economic powers has called into question the ability of the United States to compete and to maintain its technological lead. Advantage sorts out the challenges the US faces and focuses on what drives innovation, what constrains it and ...

Economic analysis of environmental policy

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough explanation of modern ...