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The Great Financial Crisis, which started in 2007-08, was originally called the 'sub-prime' crisis because its origins could be traced to excessive lending in the real estate sector in the US, concentrated mostly in sunbelt states like Nevada, Florida and California.

This book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe.

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes.

Economic History: Made Simple traces Great Britain's economic history starting from about 1760 onwards.

This book studies the information spillover among financial markets and explores the intraday effect and ACD models with high frequency data.

A former member of the American Stock Exchange introduces trading and financial markets to upper-division undergraduates and graduate students who are planning to work in the finance industry.

Managing Finance is developed from tried and tested materials that are easy to read and work is written from a managerial perspective for general managers on executive or MBA courses.

In 2001, the London Stock Exchange will be 200 years old, though its origins go back a century before that.

This book is about realistic solutions for the threat of zero-interest rates and excessive liquidity.

This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography.

What causes a financial crisis?

The phenomenal growth of Islamic finance in the last few decades has been accompanied by a host of interesting questions and challenges.

Income Tax: Made Simple discusses the fundamental concepts of taxation.

Liquidity involves the degree to which an asset can bebought or sold in the market without affecting its price.

Endorsed by the Chartered Banker Institute as core reading for the Personal & Private Banking and Commercial Lending modules, Relationship Management in Banking supports and develops the need to be able to manage key customer relationships.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the factors affecting corporate capital structures across 12 European Union countries, focusing on the influence of country-specific, industry-specific and firm-size-related determinants.

Deep, insightful analysis of controversial risk management issues in Islamic banking Mapping the Risks And Risk Management Practices In Islamic Banking is a comprehensive analysis of the current state of risk management practices within the Islamic banking industry, with recommendations for policy makers, bankers, and industry stakeholders.

It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered.

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Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this revolutionary technology and global efforts to combat climate change.

This book focuses on recent developments in financial technology: specifically, how FinTech affects the Islamic finance industry.

This book analyses the logic of applying the American Post-Keynesian economist Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis (FIH) to the financial crisis of 2007-08.

These important essays, first published in 1918, consider the various economic aspects of the reign of Edward III.

ONE WOMAN'S QUEST TO REBUILD BRITAIN'S BROKEN BANKING SYSTEM'If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it' FTIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, the British banking industry had come to a standstill.

Experts from NYU Stern School of Business analyze new financial regulations and what they mean for the economy The NYU Stern School of Business is one of the top business schools in the world thanks to the leading academics, researchers, and provocative thinkers who call it home.

This book is a detailed account of the instruments that are used in the corporate bond markets, from conventional "e;plain vanilla"e; bonds to hybrid instruments and structured products.

Using a framework of volatile markets Emerging Market Bank Lending and Credit Risk Control covers the theoretical and practical foundations of contemporary credit risk with implications for bank management.

Dramatic failures in individual markets and institutions sparked a global financial crisis that resulted in political, social, and economic unrest.

Development finance institutions (DFIs), also known as public development banks (PDBs) are public financial institutions initiated and steered by governments with explicit official missions to promote public policy objectives, and public development banks (PDBs) are the main category.

This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans.

Mobile financial services (MFS) are of major interest and importance to both researchers and practitioners.

This Element introduces a new approach to financial stability measured by an aggregate index incorporating the effect of parent companies.

The global financial crisis has sent shockwaves through the world's economies, and its effects have been deep and wide-reaching.

Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance.

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

Der Bankrechtstag 2007 in Hannover widmete sich den Themen Aktuelle insolvenzrechtliche Probleme der Kreditwirtschaft und Anlegerschutz bei strukturierten Produkten.

This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experience to developments in the UK.

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period.

Since the financial crisis of 2008-09, central bankers around the world have been forced to abandon conventional monetary policy tools in favour of unconventional policies such as quantitative easing, forward guidance, lowering the interest rate paid on bank reserves into negative territory, and pushing up prices of government bonds.

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D.

This overview of project finance for the oil and gas industry covers financial markets, sources and providers of finance, financial structures, and capital raising processes.

An accessible, intuitive outline of key developments in central banking practice and thinking.

Up-to-date guidance for conducting a successful M&A for banks and financial institutionsThe simmering economic climate since the financial crisis faces a front of new competition and sweeping regulatory reforms expected to drive the U.

Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets in the US from 1960 to 2018.