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The 2008 credit crisis started with the failure of one large bank: Lehman Brothers.

This book collects together the basic documents of an approach to the theory and policy of the balance of payments developed in the 1970s.

This book bridges the gap between Islamic and conventional (micro)economics by demonstrating how modern tools and theories of microeconomics can be applied to Islamic assumptions regarding economics and finance.

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Hong Kong's reunification with China on July 1, 1997 after 156 years of British rule was a historic event of worldwide significance.

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history.

This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle - that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio.

In this timely and provocative book, James Stent, a banker with decades of experience in Asian banking and fluency in Chinese language, explains how Chinese banks work, analyzes their strengths and weaknesses, and sets forth the challenges they face in a slowing economy.

This book deals with the effects of international trade on economic growth and money.

Howard Bodenhorn's State Banking in Early America studies the financial experimentation that took place in the United States between 1790 and 1860.

Compliance is a fundamental control function within regulated industries globally.

The Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 exposed the existence of significant imperfections in the financial regulatory framework that encouraged excessive risk-taking and increased system vulnerabilities.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) features prominently in today's media.

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This book fills a gap in banking literature by providing a professional and sophisticated 'risk' primer for bank directors, executives and staff at every level as well as students, analysts and commentators on the banking scene.

Global competition, technological development, and changes in banking laws and regulations are transforming the role of commercial banks and the nature of the banking business within the U.

The inside story of what really happened at Lehman Brothers and why it failed In The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers, investigative writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward takes readers inside Lehman's highly charged offices.

This book explains how a proper credit risk management framework enables banks to identify, assess and manage the risk proactively.

This book presents a collection of high-quality contributions on the state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analysis as it relates to financial risk management applications.

Emergent innovative financial technologies are profoundly changing the way in which we spend, move and manage our money, unlike ever before, and traditional retail banks are facing stiff competition.

"e;The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the US and the 21st century belongs to China.

This book draws on a range of theoretical foundations, approaches and management practices that are culturally and jurisdictionally appropriate in several Muslim countries.

Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street?

A Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research publicationAs the global economy continues to weather the effects of the recession brought on by the financial crisis of 200708, perhaps no sector has been more affected and more under pressure to change than the industry that was the focus of that crisis: financial services.

Its unified treatment of derivative security applications to both risk management and speculative trading separates this book from others.

The concept of "e;fair value"e; marked a major departure from traditional cost accounting.

The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say's main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English.

Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

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.

Fintech continues to revolutionize financial services.

'Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.

In this book Miroslav Beblav who has been involved in policy-making at the highest level in his country, offers a detailed study of monetary policy and monetary institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia during the 1990s and the early 2000s and a more general look at monetary policy in less developed, but highly open and fin

National development banks (NDBs) have transformed from outdated relics of national industrial policy to central pillars of the European Union's economic project.

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.

As economic and regulatory pressures drive financial institutions to seek efficiency gains by improving the quality of their trading processes and systems, firms are devoting increasing amounts of capital to maintaining their competitive edge.

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years.

Islamic finance has emerged to meet the financial needs of people who seek a different approach to conventional banking and finance.

Energy Modelling Studies and Conservation documents the proceedings of seminar of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe held in Washington D.

From Bitcoin to Apple Pay, big changes seem to be afoot in the world of money.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, almost everyone in modern theater, literature, or film knew of Otto Kahn (1867-1934), and those who read the financial press or followed the news from Wall Street could scarcely have missed his name.

Accounting and Debt Markets: Four Pieces on the Role of Accounting Information in Debt Markets provides novel and up-to-date evidence on the role of accounting information in debt markets Companies and organisations worldwide rely heavily on debt markets for short, medium and long-term financing, and debt markets and financial intermediaries have significant effects on the real economy.

The use of the US dollar for domestic monetary transactions outside the USA has gone on for many years now - Panama in 1904 being the earliest example.

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This comprehensive examination of high frequency trading looks beyond mathematical models, which are the subject of most HFT books, to the mechanics of the marketplace.

This book, first published in 1904, is an early examination of England's monetary system: what it is, how it was founded, grew and developed.

The debate on connections between economic activity and socio-environmental impact has become increasingly relevant.