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Global Shocks
his book, which is written from a practitioner’s perspective, fills the void by providing the reader with a toolkit and guiding principles to manage money when markets are in turmoil. It features ten case studies beginning with the breakdown of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system through the current situation in which investors are assessing whether China could become the next bubble…
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- 978-3-319-41104-0
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- XVII, 192
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- 332 SAR g
Modern Financial Crises
This book is devoted to the analysis of the three main financial crises that have marked this century: 2001 Argentina’s defaulting on its external debt, the American subprime crisis in 2008, and the current European debt crisis in Europe. The book pursues three major objectives: firstly, to accurately portray these three financial crises; secondly, to analyze what went wrong with mainstream e…
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- 978-3-319-20990-6
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- XVII, 257
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- Financial and Monetary Policy Studies
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Evolution of the Exchange Industry From Dealers’ Clubs to Multinational Co…
This book describes the dramatic changes that have occurred in the exchange industry during the past two decades. The strategies adopted by major world exchanges during this period are explained and the roles of multilateral trading systems and over-the-counter (OTC) players are clearly described, highlighting their economics and their interconnections with traditional exchanges. Up-to-date, co…
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- 978-3-319-21027-8
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
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Evolution of Central Banking? De Nederlandsche Bank 1814 -1852
The book analyses the establishment of De Nederlandsche Bank and its early development as a case study to test competing theories on the historical development of central banking. It is shown that the establishment of DNB can be explained by both the fiscal theory and the financial stability theory. Later development makes clear that the financial stability role of DNB prevailed. DNB´s bank no…
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- 978-3-319-10617-5
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- 14 illustrations in colour
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Modelling in Life Insurance – A Management Perspective
Focusing on life insurance and pensions, this book addresses various aspects of modelling in modern insurance: insurance liabilities; asset-liability management; securitization, hedging, and investment strategies. With contributions from internationally renowned academics in actuarial science, finance, and management science and key people in major life insurance and reinsurance companies, ther…
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- 978-3-319-29774-3
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- XVI, 255
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Global Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice for Sustainable Economic Development
This book is a comparative study of international practices in bankruptcy law, providing perspectives from a variety of specialisms including practitioners, lawyers, bankers, accountants and judges from the United Arab Emirates, the UK and Singapore.
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- 978-1-349-56191-9
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- XI, 273
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- 657 GLO
Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages
The wealth of the Central European archives, particularly in urban records, has not been fully realised by Western European historians. However, the records are not always straightforward to use and many studies tackle the methodological problems inherent in gathering and analysing medieval sources. This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies …
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- 978-1-137-46022-6
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- XVIII, 269
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Monetary Analysis at Central Banks
Whatever happened to the money supply? This book explains how the analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is undertaken at the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and (as an example of a developing country) the Bank of Tanzania. The book also explores how this analysis relates to these central banks' monetary policy strategies and how it feeds into policymaking. An editorial introduct…
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- 978-1-137-59334-4
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- XI, 139
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Modern Multi-Factor Analysis of Bond Portfolios
Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were developed several decades ago, and the advantages of multi-factor models are not fully recognised by …
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- 978-1-137-56485-6
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- xii, 124
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Banks of the Future : Putting a Puzzle Together Creatively
This book will guide financial institutions in developing new approaches and solutions for handling perennial issues. Emphasizing the value of creativity for project management in the banking sector, the author provides new insights for all those working in banking and finance. Presenting a number of new, outside-the-box ideas, the book can be regarded as the missing spice that will creatively …
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- 978-3-319-07554-9
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- XXIII, 229
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- 332
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