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 convertible bond market has recently gained increasing significance on a global basis with particularly notable growth among very fast growing companies hungry for capital.
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.
The financial systems of developed countries are evolving at a faster rate than ever before in the direction of market solutions to all problems, while many securities markets have become global in scope.
The themes in this book concern former Soviet-type societies: 1) Is the capitalist world system willing and able to absorb these newcomers or are they condemned to 'Third-worldization'?
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.
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.
The integration of market economies is one of the most remarkable features of international economics, which has important implications for macroeconomic performance in open economies.
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.
Macroeconomic data on the industrial revolutions in five countries are examined in this book, both descriptively and analytically (using structural and time-series methods).
This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives.
The turbulent 1980s and 1990s have seen important developments in the area of money and banking; these are discussed in this volume, focusing on financial innovations, the EMS and international monetary systems, monetary policy is an interdependent world, liquidity constraints and monetary policy, and monetary problems of developing countries.
Drawing on case-studies from the industrialization of East and Southeast Asian nations, this text critically examines the structural adjustment policies used in Africa since the 1980s.
Combining enterprise surveys in Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico, Malaysia and Singapore with national and international data including those from China and major machinery exporting countries, this book establishes the international pattern of diffusion of microelectronic industrial technologies.
Unlike most books on derivative products, Options Explained 2 is a practical guide, covering theoretical concepts only where they are essential to applying options on a wide variety of assets.
Governments need to know how much revenue their tax systems will raise, who will pay tax and what the effects on the incentives to save, work and invest will be.
In 1989 and 1990 the German capital markets reached a milestone as regulations were clarified regarding the use of derivative products for German institutional and private clients.
In recent years the capital markets have developed into ever more complex areas, and banks have competed with each other to develop more sophisticated and innovative methods of financing.
As we enter the early 1990s, the second phase of global deregulation gains momentum and cross-border activity in the securities markets has never been greater.
This is a collection of essays by leading economists surveying and assessing the contribution made to the development of economics in the 20th century by Sir Dennis Holme Robertson whose centenary was celebrated in 1990.
Don Patinkin's pioneering work, integrating monetary and value theory in a Walrasian general equilibrium context anticipated by almost two decades the line of research which attempts to recast macroeconomics by reference to its microeconomic foundations.
The book examines the operation of International Monetary Fund and World Bank conditionality in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Tanzania) and examines its effects on their economies.
Analyzes the processes of privatization and entrepreneurial formation by countries and subjects, and points out the different features they acquire in various post-socialist countries through an interdisciplinary and historico-comparative approach.
Presents an empirical test of Marx's theory of the "e;falling rate of profit"e; by deriving estimates of the Marxian rate of profit and its determinants for the post-World War II US economy in order to determine whether the trends in these variables were in the directions predicted by Marx's theory.
A study of key issues facing UK monetary policy-makers in the 1990s, this text focuses in particular on progress towards European economic and monetary union and the consequences of its implementation for the UK.
The author does not believe that the governments of the European Community - even supposing that they can agree on the matter - will succeed in imposing the ECU as a payment and reserve currency for use in the EEC's external trade.
The Handbook of International Financial Management brings together a wide range of topical expertise on issues of immediate relevance to finance directors, bankers, advisers and consultants with the support of a powerful editorial board representing international financial institutions.
