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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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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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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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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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Political Economy of Financial Systems
Korean and Indian Experiences in Retrospect
As the world grapples with financial instability caused by a massive infusion of pandemic-era liquidity and its subsequent withdrawal, scholars are raising doubts again regarding the merits behind the unhindered push for liberalization and deregulation. In the search for a convincing way out from recurring financial turbulences, this book revisits the past experiences of financial stability presided over by long-term credit supply largely through bank-based intermediation. The two Asian countries, South Korea and India, instituted wide-ranging financial repression through an identical – ‘Credit based, Price-administered System’ but surprisingly they witnessed…
Why did identical financial systems lead to contrasting outcomes in South Korea and India? This book argues that the efficiency of finance depends not just on its structure, but on the wider political-economic context and its relations with the market.
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Liquidity and Asset Pricing
Risk, Crises and Policy
Liquidity and Asset Pricing: Risk, Crises and Policy is a research book which gives insights on the role of liquidity in asset pricing models. The risk premium expected for market liquidity risk has been extensively covered in the book. The market conditions influence liquidity and its role in asset pricing. The book puts emphasis on measuring liquidity premium factor and integrating it with asset pricing models and also empirically examines the improvement in outcomes of the asset pricing models in better explaining the equity premium with augmented liquidity factor models.…
Explore the role of liquidity in asset pricing models, from risk premiums to market crises. This book empirically tests how augmented liquidity factors improve models and explains policy implications relevant to researchers, regulators, traders, and portfolio managers.
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Disability Pension
A Treaty in Insurance Medicine
This treaty on long-term sick leave (medical pensions, disability benefits) is a much-needed book, contributing to everyday practice. It will be very useful both for physicians and patients, legislators and insurers, linguists and philosophers. It is a unique book about insurance medicine, that discusses medicine from an International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health point of view. Invalidity pension is a very important topic, not discussed in the medical faculty. Obtaining a disability pension is a process that implies (1) patient evaluation, (2) handing over of money (file evaluation, funds…
This much-needed treaty on long-term sick leave and disability benefits is a unique book on insurance medicine. It tackles the difficult aspects of patient evaluation, ethics, medical criteria, and rehabilitation from an international perspective. Essential for all stakeholders.
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Federal Tax Practice and Procedure is often described as a rebarbative course. Instructors tend to put more emphasis on datelines, tax filings, etc. Though these aspects are important they do not capture the essence of tax procedure. This book encapsulates the delightful aspects of tax procedure and aims to equip students and practitioners with analytical skills through the use of the Code, Regulations, and case law. Readers will enjoy learning about fiscal procedure aspects such as Taxpayer bill of rights, Tax Audit Process and Tax Assessment Period, Assessment of Tax…
This book equips students and practitioners with the analytical skills to represent a client in a civil federal tax dispute. Using the Code, Regulations, and case law, you will learn to identify and analyse procedural issues from a tax controversy’s inception through litigation.
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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 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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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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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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The rise of China will profoundly change the world, and the rest of us now have a chance to understand how and why this is happening, or continue to moralise about this “disaster”, thought to harm our way of life. What is especially galling is that the Chinese appear better able to create wealth and value than the West. Even in the midst of political denunciations, more and more businesses are profitably engaging China. We have to face the fact that China excels at what we are supposed to admire,…
The rise of China will profoundly change the world. China excels at the peaceful creation of wealth, and the answers to its success lie not in “communism” but in Chinese civilization. This book explains why China is winning and will continue to do so unless we wake up.
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Public Finance in India
Theory and Practice
This book highlights the management of a country's revenue, expenditure, and debt load through various government and quasi-government institutions theoretically. It includes public goods, that may or may not be efficiently supplied by the private market. Public expenditure refers to the spending by the government to support these public goods and services, while public revenue is the government's income, primarily through tax and non-tax sources. The various indicators, like Net Resource Rent to Gross Domestic Product ratio, Capex to Totex ratio, etc. are calculated to determine India's fiscal performance and…
This book examines the management of India’s public revenue, expenditure, and debt. It analyzes fiscal performance and the impact of public finance policies on economic growth, income distribution, and stability, offering vital insights for policymakers, economists, and students.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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