Credit and credit institutions

The growing indebtedness of households reported over the last 30 years and in most developed countries has serious economic and social implications.

This book offers a chronological account of the development of interest-bearing debt and how the issue of interest has been addressed throughout medieval and modern civilizations.

This jargon-busting book describes how the bond and money markets work and how they impact on everyday life.

Land reform has been the most challenging social issue for China, which is in transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized country.

This monograph is practically oriented, presenting a survey and explanation of credit insurance services for protection of short-term trade receivables primarily against commercial risk of insolvency and protracted default.

Taliban's return to power in August of 2021 caused everyone to ask why the two decades of institution building in Afghanistan failed.

This jargon-busting book shows how bond & money markets work & how they impact on everyday life.

Derivatives Markets is a thorough and well-presented textbook that offers readers an introduction to derivatives instruments, with a gentle introduction to mathematical finance, and provides a working knowledge of derivatives to a wide area of market participants.

In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with.

The implementation of new technologies is expected to boost the development of Islamic Finance by increasing accessibility to banking and other financial services in Islamic communities and democratizing access to investment opportunities.

This provocative book provides insight into a finance industry that is run for the benefit of banks and service providers who rely on Beatles-era theories and regulation which are totally unsuited to the modern world.

A step-by-step, real world guide to the use of Value at Risk (VaR) models, this text applies the VaR approach to the measurement of market risk, credit risk and operational risk.

Find The Home Mortgage That's Right For You Finding the right mortgage can be complex, confusing, and frustrating.

The passage of the National Currency Act of 1863 gave the United States its first uniform paper money, its first nationally chartered and supervised commercial banks, and its first modern regulatory agency: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it.

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women''s empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

From the mid-1970s until the crisis in 2007, the world of finance enjoyed thirty euphoric years as the general public, businesses and governments put their blind trust in financial techniques, professions and institutions.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the most salient features of contemporary financial systems and clarifies the major strategic issues facing the development of digital finance.

The growing indebtedness of households reported over the last 30 years and in most developed countries has serious economic and social implications.

This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective.

The Financial Crisis was a cross-sector crisis that fundamentally affected modern society.

Originally published in 1987, British Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries the book is the diversification of and overlaps in the operations of UK financial intermediaries forms.

The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?

This textbook is designed as a core text for finance courses that cover market investments, portfolio formation, and the management of investment portfolios.

Originally published in 1995, Beyond Capital Labor is a comprehensive empirical study about how and how much technology and regional contextual factors may influence company production and productivity growth.

The capacity of national central banks to 'step in' and bail out an economy is one which has proved to be vitally important over the years.

A growing body of evidence suggests that financial literacy plays an important role in financial well-being, and that differences in financial knowledge acquired early in life can explain a significant part of financial and more general well-being in adult life.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rational debate about them and ultimately to make them truly accountable.

Many years on after the 2007-8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity.

Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time, government budgets face increasing constraints.

In the US and UK, saving and borrowing routines have changed radically and become closely bound-up with the capital markets of global finance.

In the seventeenth century, England saw Holland as an economic power to learn from and compete with.

First published in 1982, Bond Duration and Immunization is a collection of seminal papers featuring articles from high profile academics such as Frederick McCaulay, John Hicks, and F.

The idea that each country should have one currency is so deeply rooted in people's minds that the possibility of multiple and concurrent currencies seems unthinkable.

This book examines four aspects of Malaysian consumers' financial vulnerabilities.

Credit rating agencies have been criticized for their role in the financial crisis by understating credit risk.

This book provides a technical and specialised discussion of contemporary and emerging issues in foreign exchange and financial markets by addressing the issues of risk management and theory and hypothesis development, which have general implications for finance theory and foreign exchange market management.

This book goes beyond traditional financial institutions textbooks, which tend to focus on mathematical models for risk management and the technical aspects of measuring and managing risk.

In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time.

Using a variety of theoretical frameworks drawn from the social sciences, the contributions in this edited collection offer a critical perspective on the dominant paradigms used in contemporary financial activities.

The definitive guide for navigating today's credit agreementsToday s syndicated loan market and underlying credit agreements are far more complex than ever.

A practical guide to the features and investment characteristics of CDOs In the bond area, collateralized debt obligations, which include collateralized bond obligations and collateralized loan obligations, are the fastest-growing sector.

The rapid pace of progress in the Islamic financial market and investment space, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath and recovery, has provided the necessary challenges to build a strong case for Islamic investment.

Microcredit has been seen in recent decades as having great potential for aiding development in poor developing countries, with Bangladesh being one of the countries which has pioneered microcredit and implemented it most widely.

This book is about microfinance in rural China and how the villagers cultivated their social relationships by moving money.

With the spread of interest-based transactions, major problems such as inequality, poverty and debt-based slavery have emerged.

The book introduces how we can manage currency options with the Vanna-Volga method.

Originally published in 1992, Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets, argues that barriers to financial flows within regions may be as important in affecting capital flows as interregional barriers.