Economic and financial crises and disasters

The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU).

The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the public.

The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the public.

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Half a century ago, on 16 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

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Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history.

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory.

The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory.

In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery and regeneration out of deep economic and fiscal contraction.

In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery and regeneration out of deep economic and fiscal contraction.

The financial crisis that erupted in 2007 has brought the issues of the size, risk, and regulation of banks to the attention of a wide audience.

Systemic Risk opens new ground in the study of financial crises.

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?

The so-called Great Recession that followed the global financial crisis at the end of 2007 was the largest economic downturn since the 1930s for most rich countries.

The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance.

The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance.

This volume uses state of the art models from the frontier of macroeconomics to answer key questions about how the economy functions and how policy should be conducted.

The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies.

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk.

Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis.

Economics and political economy lack the analytical tools to explain the differing impact of the recent international financial crisis that erupted in 2007 on developed economies.

By 2000, Ireland had achieved a remarkable macroeconomic performance: 10% economic growth annually, a budget surplus, and a very low debt to GDP ratio.

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis.

This book aims to identify and analyze the impact of the 2007-09 global financial crisis on Asian economies and to assess the short-term and longer-term policy responses to the crisis in terms of their effectiveness and sustainability.

The worldwide financial crisis has wrought deep changes in capital and labor markets, old-age retirement systems, and household retirement and consumption patterns.

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public.

The financial crisis of 2008 aroused widespread interest in banking and financial history among policy makers, academics, journalists, and even bankers, in addition to the wider public.

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis.

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.

This book deals with the genesis and dynamics of exchange rate crises in fixed or managed exchange rate systems.

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk.

What causes a financial crisis?

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics?

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

What is the relationship between the financial system and politics?

In 2008, the world was plunged into a financial and economic crash.

This book presents the Clarendon Lectures in Finance by one of the leading exponents of financial booms and crises.

In Casino Capitalism Hans-Werner Sinn examines the causes of the banking crisis, points out the flaws in the economic rescue packages, and presents a master plan for the reform of financial markets.

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

This book presents the Clarendon Lectures in Finance by one of the leading exponents of financial booms and crises.

The financial crisis, which originated in developed country financial markets, quickly spread to developing countries.

This book, based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, examines the empirical behaviour of corporate default risk.

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade.

Offering an analytical perspective on the design and reform of the international financial architecture, this book stresses the important role played by creditor co-ordination problems in the origin and management of crises by relating the insights of the new literature on global games to earlier work on currency crises, bank runs, and sovereign debt default.

Stochastic volatility is the main concept used in the fields of financial economics and mathematical finance to deal with time-varying volatility in financial markets.

What causes a financial crisis?

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008.

The interventions of crisis management during the 2007 to 2011 financial crisis were not simply responses to a set of given developments in markets, banking or neo-liberal capitalism.