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Much of what has been heard, read, or taught about the 2008 financial crisis is incorrect. It was not caused by free market capitalism run amok. The crisis was not created by deregulatory zeal. It wasn’t primarily due to greed on Wall Street. The crisis was not simply created by people’s “irrational exuberance” or “animal spirits.” Perhaps most importantly, it did not require bailouts and thousands of pages of new regulations to fix. Instead, it came about because of significant market distortions created by government subsidies, misregulation, and perverse…
Much of what you’ve been taught about the 2008 financial crisis is incorrect. It wasn’t caused by free market capitalism, but by market distortions from government subsidies and misregulation. The new regulations haven’t solved the problem—in fact, they may have made it worse.
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Breaking the bottleneck of SME financing and promoting consumption by lifting consumer credit have become an important way to realize the transformation from wholesale finance to retail finance in China. This book puts the focus on consumer financing, introducing the financing situation, constraints, preferences, and representative tools, and gives a brief discussion on the Credit Reference System in China. It will be indispensable to every financial company intending to expand business through financing tools, and any academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
This book focuses on consumer financing in China, introducing the financing situation, constraints, representative tools, and the Credit Reference System. It is an indispensable guide for financial companies and academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
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Quantifying the Sustainability of Public Debt
Time-Varying Evidence from a Developing Country
Despite its beneficial aspects, public debt can be hazardous for macroeconomic performance should it reach unrepayable levels as a consequence of snowballing explosive trends. Failure to monitor the existing trend in public debt in order to detect such divergences from the stable path, and the lack of an adaptive public financial management can potentially culminate in a public debt crisis whose disruptive economic impacts can permeate all sectors of the economy very swiftly. However, public debt sustainability is a vague concept with no straightforward operational definitions. In addition, its…
High public debt can be hazardous, culminating in a crisis that permeates all sectors of the economy. This book provides a practical and straightforward framework for public debt sustainability analysis, underpinned by a real-world application of the model.
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Currencies and Cultures
The Impact of Culture on Economic Policies and the Foundations of Money
Why cultures are different can be examined through the multifaceted lens of their currencies, their economic policies, and the very foundations of how money works. Anyone who has traveled abroad immediately senses the cultural differences, even before learning about the language, politics, or history of the people. The tourist is promptly faced with strangely priced goods and services, an unknown currency of dubious value, and an alien system of payment, trade, and exchange. An investigation into the origins and evolution of money explains much about the behavior of…
A symbiotic relationship exists between a currency and its culture and society. Currencies and Cultures offers insights into how cultural institutions can strengthen citizens’ values and beliefs and enhance the process of trade and exchange for the betterment of their people.
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This book stresses the importance of aligning developing countries’ economic activities towards sustainable development purposes. A revamp of the financial systems of emerging economies is necessary to allow the financial resources needed for investment purposes to become readily available on these markets. The failure of most countries to grow and develop is often caused by the inability of potential investors to access capital for investment purposes. By modernizing the financial sectors of developing nations, this book argues, it is possible to industrialize their approaches to growth and development.
This book argues that to achieve sustainable development, developing countries must revamp their financial systems. The failure to grow is often caused by investors’ inability to access capital. Modernizing financial sectors can make resources available and industrialize growth.
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Financial performance is one of the most important and frequently used tools of management accounting, and its focus is on the factors that have the greatest impact on the company’s profit. This book explores the relationship between human resources and a company’s financial performance, how performance based on multiple non-financial criteria leads to an increase in the organizational trust of the employees in the honesty of the company’s leaders, and the different ways to measure financial performance. This book will improve the knowledge, skills and abilities of managers and experts…
This book explores the relationship between human resources and a company’s financial performance. Learn how non-financial criteria increase employee trust and discover ways to measure financial performance to empower HR’s strategic role in increasing company profit.
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The form of money is changing, increasingly becoming digitized. Does this change the meaning of “money”? Are these new forms of money safe? Will we soon be using this new money to buy coffee? Are there advantages to using the new money? Should the central bank issue its own digital money? These, and other questions, are addressed in this nontechnical book. To address these questions the book first considers the history of money. Then the infrastructure for the new monies is introduced: blockchain, cryptography, smart contracts, and early applications like…
The form of money is changing. Are new digital currencies safe? Should the central bank issue its own? This nontechnical book answers these questions, exploring everything from blockchain and Bitcoin to the life-changing, phone-based money already used by millions.
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Innovation, adaptation and entrepreneurial spirit are particularly important when dealing with global challenges that threaten everyone, like pandemics, terrorism and climate change. The biggest opportunity presented by Covid-19 is the chance to reset some of our economic approaches in a way that it maximizes the chances of developing more resilient and sustainable approaches to globalization. Covid-19 has produced uncertainty within the financial sector for both businesses making money and individuals taking care of their money. Prudent financial management now seems to be more important than ever, in addition to…
Global challenges like pandemics and climate change present an opportunity to reset our economies for a more resilient and sustainable future. Amid financial uncertainty, prudent management and planning for the unthinkable are essential. This book highlights these strategists.
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This book explores the presence of foreign banks in the Western Balkans with a detailed look at their relationships with consumers, as well as their convergence to the rule of law of the European Union. This book is as informative as it is interesting, and would be of great use to students studying the economics of the Western Balkans, and to any others who find the subject of interest.
This book explores foreign banks in the Western Balkans, their relationships with consumers, and their convergence to the rule of law of the European Union. It is of great use to students of the economics of the Western Balkans and others interested in the subject.
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China as a representative of an emerging developing country has more growth advantages than other developed countries, while the Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) is an important pilot base for the nation’s stock market reform. Relying on this market, China hopes to improve the efficiency of its capital allocation and then cultivate science and technology giant enterprises. The STAR has been continuously sought after by market funds since its official opening on 13 June 2019. This book systematically explains the management system of the STAR, discusses the investment opportunities of various…
This book provides a comprehensive picture of China’s Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR), a key stock market reform. It explains the STAR system, discusses investment opportunities by valuing representative enterprises, and is indispensable for investors and academic researchers.
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This book is a must-read for anyone interested in owning or leasing real estate in the US, covering the step-by-step process of buying real estate. It also presents topics involved in the typical buying transaction, and includes answers to common questions that arise in this field, as well as material on leasing. The book also offers a summary of important terms and phrases at the beginning of each topic, allowing the reader to learn the language of the business, and identifies learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter. In…
A must-read for owning or leasing real estate in the US. This guide covers the step-by-step buying process, answers common questions, and includes material on leasing. Learn the language of the business with a summary of important terms, a glossary, and review questions.
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The Power Elite and Disparity in America
Cause and Correction
This book identifies the cause for the great disparity and unrest in America today. The bottom tiers of the nation are suffering and barely able to subsist in a world of plenty. What caused this great unhappiness? The book reviews the nation’s history from the happy days of the Sixties to the discontent of today, and finds that a shift in the flow of wealth was imposed by a handful of people, the power elite. There are two groups to these elite, those in the financial world who initiated the…
What caused America’s great disparity and unrest? This book reveals how a power elite systematically redirected the nation’s wealth to the top. Discover their methods and the bold new direction we must take to reverse the damage and restore prosperity for all.
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Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade and Labour Market Adjustment
A Sectoral Analysis of India
Intra-industry trade (IIT) has emerged as a major area of research in the analysis of international and intra-regional specialization. This book highlights the changes which the Indian economy has witnessed in the past two decades following the economic liberalization of the 1990s. It has been revealed that there are comparatively few studies in the context of developing economies which focus on the country-industry-specific determinants of aggregate and sectoral IIT. The book incorporates several hypotheses to analyze demand-driven, supply-induced, industry-specific, and policy-oriented drivers influencing the level of bilateral aggregate…
This book highlights changes in the Indian economy following the 1990s economic liberalization, focusing on intra-industry trade (IIT). It conducts an empirical analysis of the drivers influencing IIT and explores their impact on the growth of the Indian economy.
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Telecommunications Regulatory Reform in Small Island Developing States
The Impact of the WTO’s Telecommunications Commitment
This book adopts an approach of ‘mixed-method research’ with an in-depth qualitative comparative case study analysis triangulated by a quantitative statistical analysis. In particular, the book attempts to capture Small Island Developing States control variables in its empirical analysis, often omitted from telecommunications empirical studies due to limited data. Based on the smallest and most isolated small island states in the World, the research’s comparative case study analysis was conducted in five Pacific Island States (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu). The…
This book analyzes telecommunications reform in Pacific Island States, a topic often omitted from empirical studies. It links islandness, policy reform, and international trade agreements to propose concrete policy insights for Small Island Developing States.
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The present book is a collection of studies presented at the 10th International Conference on Finance and Banking which took place at Silesian University - School of Business Administration in Karviná, Czech Republic on October 19 - 20, 2005. All papers presented at the conference have been peer-reviewed and, consequently, the nine best papers that discuss issues corresponding with the book’s focus have been selected by the editors for publication in this book. In spite of the fact that the book is a collection of independent studies it represents a…
This collection of peer-reviewed studies offers deep insight into the financial and banking sectors of new EU-member countries. Through original research, it compares their development to established countries and explores their prospective integration into the EMU.
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This volume brings together a variety of issues, methods and market instruments that should prove useful for topics courses, finance and asset management practice, and also foster future research. This collection of contributions is a selected subset of those presented at the XLI Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling, Lisbon, November 2007, and has a rich manifold of applied, theoretical and methodological work: • Banking, empirical assessment of efficiency and relationship banking; • Corporate Governance; • Market Microstructure: liquidity; price limits; volatility; • Risk: sovereign debt rating;…
This volume joins authors from academia and practice to offer a multiplicity of issues and methodology in finance. It presents applied and theoretical work on banking, market microstructure, risk, and portfolio selection, useful for both practice and research.
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Investment Portfolio Selection Using Goal Programming
An Approach to Making Investment Decisions
This book provides both practitioners and academics with a scientific approach to portfolio selection using Goal Programming, an approach which is capable as far as is possible of achieving a required set of preferences deemed appropriate by a decision maker. Goal Programming is perhaps the most widely-used approach in the field of multiple criteria decision-making that enables the decision maker to incorporate numerous variations of constraints and goals. The original portfolio selection problem, with risk and return optimisation, can be viewed as a case of Goal Programming with…
This book provides practitioners with a superior scientific framework for investment decision-making. Using Goal Programming, it offers a realistic approach to portfolio selection that finds feasible solutions for complex, real-world problems.
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This collection of papers addresses the issues of fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, fiscal decentralization, unconventional methods of resource mobilization for filling the huge gap in infrastructure financing and strategies for achieving fiscal sustainability at the national and sub-national level in the globalized setting. Though a number of articles are in the context of Kerala, the overarching fiscal problems of sub-national governments are common to all. It contains detailed and in-depth analysis by eminent scholars and seasoned economic administrators, based on empirical and theoretical studies. Six decades of federal fiscal arrangement…
Eminent scholars and administrators analyze fiscal federalism, centre-state relations, and decentralization. This collection addresses growing fiscal stress and offers strategies for sustainability for national and sub-national governments in a globalized world.
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How does a globally uncompetitive industry compete successfully in specific markets? What shapes the decisions of importers in these markets to purchase inputs from a more costly supplier? Current theories highlight the role of the market or firm strategy as possible explanations. It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid! Trade Competitiveness in the 21st Century relies on 12 years of research of the US textile industry and the apparel industry throughout the Latin American and Caribbean regions to provide an alternative answer to these questions. The book argues that market factors…
Using 12 years of research on the US textile industry and the apparel industry in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Jackson argues that regulated trade agreements allow certain less globally competitive industries to become highly competitive in specific markets.
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Through analysing banking systems, this book develops a unique conceptual framework for exploring paradigmatic differences and evolutionary paths amidst global transformations. This framework sheds light on the institutional context shaping modern macroeconomic processes. Additionally, it elucidates how commercial banks execute intermediary functions globally, refining methodologies to enhance banking system efficiency and competitiveness. The book argues that EU banking systems underwent transformational processes preceding the European Monetary System, driving regulatory harmonization and consolidation. Conversely, shifts in the US banking sector reduced its role in financial intermediation. However, the Canadian banking system…
This book develops a unique framework for exploring the evolution of banking systems amidst global transformations. By comparing the divergent paths of the EU, US, and Canadian sectors, it reveals key strategies for enhancing banking system efficiency and competitiveness.
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