Esai tentang teori dan praktik keuangan dan kebijakan publik. Enam belas esai dalam buku ini ditulis untuk merayakan ulang tahun kesembilan puluh Richard Musgrave dan untuk memperingati ulang tahun kesepuluh CES, Pusat Studi Ekonomi di Universitas Munich. Musgrave dianggap sebagai bapak pendiri ekonomi publik modern. Ia termasuk dalam tradisi intelektual yang memandang pemerintah sebagai instru…
Saran terperinci dan praktis tentang cara merekrut penasihat keuangan. Mempekerjakan bantuan keuangan adalah tugas yang banyak dilakukan orang yang cerdas dengan cara yang salah, memilih untuk mengandalkan rekomendasi dari keluarga dan teman, pertemuan kebetulan, atau iklan daripada melakukan riset yang matang. Dalam prosa yang menarik dan mudah dipahami, kolumnis sindikasi nasional Charles A. …
Penulis buku ini bertujuan untuk menguji efektivitas undang-undang keterbukaan dalam regulasi pasar keuangan, khususnya dalam konteks keterbukaan informasi secara terus menerus kepada pemangku kepentingan. Mereka berpendapat bahwa berkembangnya undang-undang keterbukaan informasi, yang seringkali diberlakukan sebagai respons terhadap krisis keuangan tanpa mempertimbangkan peraturan yang ada, te…
This book presents an analysis of the role of UK building societies, their strengths and weaknesses, and their contribution to the industry, at a time where public confidence in banking is low. Chapters present the results of an empirical analysis of the comparative performance of UK building societies, since the large-scale demutualisation process ended in the year 2000. The authors highlight …
Based on archival research covering more than two centuries and most former British colonies (West Indies, India, Singapore, Malaya, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to slow its eventual decline after World War II. …
This book provides a critical analysis of The European Union’s regulatory framework for mobile payments and bitcoin. Chapters discuss the creation of the EU single market for e-payments and combine legal analysis with comparative case studies in their exploration of the regulatory challenges surrounding e-payments. The contributing authors analyse the key economic and legal issues of the deve…
Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the ‘Post-Washington Consensus,’ were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure.
Existing scholarship has not systematically examined BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) as a rising power de-dollarization coalition, despite the group developing multiple de-dollarization initiatives to reduce currency risk and bypass US sanctions.