The single European Market, the Second Banking Directive, relaxation of cross-border capital and funds movements and the possible introduction of a single European currency have led most corporations to adopt new cash management strategies, or to plan for major structural changes in the near future.
The book, written by experts in their respective areas of official responsibility in Vietnam, provides a well researched, comprehensive, and concisely presented assessment and forecasts on opportunities for trade, investment, business, and cooperation in Vietnam for use by foreign companies, individuals, and institutions.
A topical examination of the impact of globalization and the intricate relationship between international trade and labour markets, containing theoretical and empirical studies of countries including UK, Mexico and Chile.
This book examines the procedures for determining the pay of public sector workers in six European Countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
An up-to-date analysis and assessment of the evolving relationship between Canada and the Commonwealth Caribbean, this volume focuses on three dynamic and important issues.
Offshore finance has transformed many small jurisdictions into high income economies and has facilitated the growth of global financial markets, deregulation and the convergence of economic policies worldwide.
The book describes Japanese economic activities in all the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (FSU) predominantly since the break-up of the Soviet Union.
On December 14, 1945, the House of Commons voted 314 to 50 to ratify the Agreements negotiated at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, nearly a year and a half earlier.
After the Second World War, the economics of the western capitalist countries were based on a production system called fordism, but in the mid 1970s this system began to break down, and it has been in crisis since.
During the 1980s, deregulation became adopted as a slogan and set of practices which by setting market forces free could increase the efficiency of market systems.
Erik Banks, responsible for global risk management at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, has written another text on the derivatives field covering innovation in these instruments in Asia Pacific.
Analyzing relations amidst the European Community's growing unity and Japan's ever more dynamic economy, this book compares the processes, means, ends, successes and failures of European and Japanese industrial, trade and foreign policies.
Highlighting recent revolutionary changes, this volume deals with the ongoing transformation from central planning towards more efficient economic structures in Eastern and Central Europe and the former USSR.
Investigates various aspects of inflation - the recent history of inflation as well as potential sources of changes, the technical issues regarding the measurement of inflation, the indicators for future inflation, and the policy implications to achieve and maintain price stability.
Contributes to the debate between monetarist, Keynesian and supply-side views of economic theory, and analyzes and compares the empirical experiences of the economic policies of the six major industrialized countries of the 1980s.
The decision of the G-5 countries to appreciate the yen during the Plaza accord was of great significance for Japan because this was the sharpest appreciation among the leading currencies.
Provides an analysis of the classical gold standard (1880-1914) - the nearest historical equivalent to what EC countries are attempting to do - in order to examine critically these and other issues raised in the debate.
This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives.
