Economic and financial crises and disasters

"Die Angst kriecht die Bürotürme hoch" - Manager MagazinDas Kapital von Superreichen verzinst sich stündlich mit 200.

This edited volume presents the most recent achievements in risk measurement and management, as well as regulation of the financial industry, with contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners such as Robert Engle, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Viral Acharya, Torben Andersen, Zvi Bodie, Menachem Brenner, Aswath Damodaran, Marti Subrahmanyam, William Ziemba and others.

This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis.

Connections among different assets, asset classes, portfolios, and the stocks of individual institutions are critical in examining financial markets.

This book uses case studies and in-depth analysis of recent legislation to explain why taxpayer-funded bail-outs are necessary for successful bank resolutions.

The current economic and financial crisis erupted several years ago.

A collection of essays about the US Great Recession of 2007 to 2009 and the subsequent stagnation from prominent scholars.

The 2008 financial crisislike the Great Depressionwas a world-historical event.

Immer wieder haben wir sie gehört und selbst angestimmt: die Klagelieder über die Zerstörung von Menschlichkeit, Kultur und natürlichen Ressourcen durch eine entfesselte Wirtschaft, die Moritaten über die planmäßige Produktion von gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit im Interesse der Profite einiger Weniger.

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

This volume critically re-examines the profession's understanding of asset bubbles in light of the global financial crisis of 2007-09.

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 audit committee has gained considerable attention in the aftermath of 2007-2009 global financial crisis.

Vocation, or calling - the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience - is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion.

An updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil In The New Empire of Debt, financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to reveal how the financial crisis that has plagued the United States will soon bring an end to this once great empire.

A world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time.

Examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth century.

Generation Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars.

This must-read for those in the financial business shines new light on puzzles and controversies and dispenses with conventional errors.

Understanding the results of alternative fiscal arrangements in multi-tiered government structures is crucial for designing effective decentralization policies.

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

Ireland''s experience of Europe''s most spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery is narrated and dissected by a central banking insider.

The coming financial apocalypse and what government and individuals can do to insulate themselves against the worst shocks In this controversial book a noted adherent of Austrian School of Economics theories advances the thesis that the United States is fast approaching the end stage of the biggest asset bubble in history.

Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantitative investors how to navigate intraday threats and stay on-course.

Central banks play an important role in the course of national economies and the global economy.

Alongside other types of mass atrocities, genocide has received extensive scholarly, policy, and practitioner attention.

Understanding the results of alternative fiscal arrangements in multi-tiered government structures is crucial for designing effective decentralization policies.

Der renommierte US-amerikanische Wirtschaftsprofessor James K.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to serve the American Dream of homeownership.

Understand Business Continuity, using ISO22301Have you ever wondered whether your business continuity plan is any good?

Following books by Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Ariely, noted economics professor William L.

Provides fresh analysis of the European financial system for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business.

Immer wieder haben wir sie gehört und selbst angestimmt: die Klagelieder über die Zerstörung von Menschlichkeit, Kultur und natürlichen Ressourcen durch eine entfesselte Wirtschaft, die Moritaten über die planmäßige Produktion von gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit im Interesse der Profite einiger Weniger.

There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007.

This book offers a comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis that erupted in Greece in 2010 and subsequently threatened the very survival of the Euro area.

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security.

Workers experience an increasingly uncertain future and many have been forced to search for jobs in a highly competitive market.

This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.

This book shows how the Keynesian approach to business cycles can be used to explain and understand the current financial crisis.

Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it's never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the "e;new rules.

This volume provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the difficulties that the Zimbabwean economy and its population experienced during the crisis which peaked in 2008.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

The European debt crisis has posed a challenge for many people to understand, both non-Europeans and Europeans alike.

Ben Bernanke's history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisisIn 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.

The financial crisis has led to a far-reaching redesign of the European regulatory and supervisory framework.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.

Welfare and the Great Recession surveys and analyses welfare consequences in the period following the financial crisis in Europe.

In recent years, the effects of economic openness and technological change have fuelled dissatisfaction with established political systems and led to new forms of political populism that exploit the economic and political resentment created by globalization.